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Adolphus Slade

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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 the Ottoman Empire.[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

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