Robert Coote (Royal Navy officer)

Robert Coote
Born 1 June 1820
Geneva, Switzerland
Died 17 March 1898
Dulwich, London
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service 1833-1885
Rank Admiral
Commands held HMS Volcano
HMS Victory
HMS Gibraltar
HMS Arethusa
Queenstown
China Station
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath

Admiral Robert Coote CB (1 June 1820 – 17 March 1898) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station.

Background

Coote was a younger son of Sir Charles Coote, 9th Baronet (see Coote baronets), by Caroline Whaley, daughter of John Whaley, of Whaley Abbey, County Wicklow.[1]

Naval career

Educated at Eton College,[2] Coote joined the Royal Navy in 1833[3] and served on the coast of Syria in 1840.[2] He was made Commander of the HMS Volcano in 1851 while serving in the West Africa Squadron.[3] Promoted to Captain in 1854, he commanded HMS Victory from 1860, HMS Gibraltar from 1864 and HMS Arethusa from 1867.[3] He became Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown in 1874[2] and Commander-in-Chief, China Station in 1878.[3] He retired in 1885.[2]

He is buried in Woking Cemetery.[2] There is a memorial to him in St Catherine's Church in Tullamore in County Offaly.[4]

Family

Coote married Lucy Parry, daughter of the Arctic explorer Admiral Sir William Parry, in 1854. They had one son, Stanley Victor Coote, High Sheriff of Roscommon in 1900, and a daughter, Caroline Maud Coote, who married Major-General Cecil William Park. Coote died in March 1898, aged 77. His wife died in February 1906.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 thepeerage.com Admiral Robert Coote
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Visitation of Ireland By Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp, p. 112
  3. 1 2 3 4 William Loney RN
  4. ↑ Churches in Tullamore in the 1900s By Michael Byrne Published 2007
Military offices
Preceded by
Edmund Heathcote		 Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown
1874–1876 		Succeeded by
Henry Hillyar
Preceded by
Sir Charles Hillyar		 Commander-in-Chief, China Station
1878–1881 		Succeeded by
Sir George Willes
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