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SIR ASTLEY COOPER KEY (1821-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 767 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:ASTLEY See also:COOPER See also:KEY (1821-1888)  , See also:English See also:admiral, was See also:born in See also:London in 1821, and entered the See also:navy in 1833 . His See also:father was See also:Charles See also:Aston See also:Key (1793-1849), a well-known surgeon, the See also:pupil of See also:Sir See also:Astley See also:Cooper, and his See also:mother was the latter's niece . After distinguishing himself in active service abroad, on the See also:South See also:American station (1844-1846), in the Baltic during the See also:Crimean See also:War (C.B . 1855) and See also:China (1857), Key was appointed in 1858 a member of the royal See also:commission on See also:national See also:defence,-in 186o See also:captain of the See also:steam reserve at See also:Devonport, and in 1863 captain of H.M.S . " Excellent " and See also:superintendent of the Royal See also:Naval See also:College . He had a considerable See also:share in advising as to the reorganization of See also:administration, and in 1866, having become See also:rear-admiral, was made director of naval See also:ordnance . Between 1869 and 1872 he held the offices of superintendent of See also:Portsmouth dockyard, superintendent of See also:Malta dockyard, and second in command in the Mediterranean . In 1872 he was made See also:president of the projected Royal Naval College at See also:Greenwich, which was organized by him, and after its opening in 1873 he was made a K.C.B. and a See also:vice-admiral . In 1876 he was appointed See also:commander-in-See also:chief on the See also:North American and See also:West See also:Indian station . Having become full admiral in 1878, he was appointed in 1879 See also:principal A.D.C., and soon afterwards first naval See also:lord of the See also:admiralty, retaining this See also:post till 1885 . In 1882 he was made G.C.B . He died at See also:Maidenhead on the 3rd of See also:March, 1888 .

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Memoirs of Sir Astley Cooper Key, by Vice-Admiral See also:Colomb (1898) .

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