The Founders of The Naval Review

The Founders of The Naval Review

08 May 24
Posted by: Master Ned
50 minutes, 58 seconds read
Message from the Editor

RAdm James Goldrick RAN provided the first chapter to the NR’s centenary publication, Dreadnought to Daring (2012), in which he conducted a prosopographical study of the Naval Review’s founders. A 50 minute read.

On 27 October 1912 at 55 Bury Road, Alverstoke, six Royal Navy and one Royal Marine Artillery were gathered at the behest of Captain Herbert Richmond to discuss the formation of a Correspondence Society for the Propagation of Sea-Military Knowledge.[1] Richmond’s lieutenant was Commander Kenneth Dewar in a scheme which became first the Naval Society and then The Naval Review.[2] The selection of attendees was opportunistic but deliberate. Imbued with the desire to reform the Royal Navy, Richmond and Dewar had the idea that the critical period for educating officers was between the ages of 20 a…

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