Adolphus Slade
Sir Adolphus Slade C.B. (1804–13 Nov 1877) was a British Admiral who became Admiral of the Fleet in the Navy of the Sultan of Turkey[1].
He was the fifth son of General Sir John Slade.
Career
- 1815 Entered Navy[2]
- 1827 Lieutenant
- 1841 Commander
- 1849 Captain
- 1849-66 Admiral in the Turkish navy, with the title of Mushaver (consulting) Pasha. This included the Crimean War In 1854 his flagship was a 72-gun frigate[3]
- 1858 KCB
- 1866 Rear-Admiral
- 1867 Retired Rear-Admiral
- 1873 Retired Vice-Admiral
Books
Slade, who has been described as "one of the best nineteenth-century writers on the Middle East"[4] wrote five books[5]:
- Records of Travels in Turkey and Greece &c and of a Cruise in the Black Sea with Captain Pasha[6] (1833)
- Turkey, Greece and Malta (1837)
- Maritime States and Military Navies (1859)
- Turkey and the Crimean War: a narrative of historical events (1867)
- An Historical Catechism of the Church of England, from the Apostles’ times to the mission of St. Augustine. Compiled chiefly for the young (1883).
Notes and references
- ^ National Archives Entry
- ^ bio summary
- ^ 1854 news report
- ^ Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East Bernard Lewis Foreign Affairs, May/June 2005
- ^ online catalogue of British Library
- ^ google books link
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