Adolphus Slade
Appearance
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 a number of books:[5]
- John Miller Adye (1840). Travels in Germany and Russia: including a steam voyage by the Danube and the Euxine from Vienna to Constantinople, in 1838-39. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans.
John Miller Adye (1854). Records of travels in Turkey, Greece, &c. and of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the years 1829,1830, and 1831. Saunders and Otley.
- Turkey, Greece and Malta (1837)
- Maritime States and Military Navies (1859)
- Adolphus Slade (1867). Turkey and the Crimean War: a narrative of historical events. Smith, Elder & Co.
- 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