3 March 1888(1888-03-03) (aged 67) Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Navy
Years of service
1833–1886
Rank
Admiral
Commands held
First Naval Lord North America and West Indies Station Royal Naval College, Greenwich HMS Sans Pareil HMS Amphion HMS Bulldog HMS Admiralty
Battles/wars
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata Crimean War Second Opium War
Awards
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key, GCB, FRS, ADC (18 January 1821 – 3 March 1888) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado in November 1845 during the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata and took part at the Battle of Bomarsund in August 1854 and the Bombardment of Sveaborg in August 1855 during the Crimean War. He also went ashore with the naval brigade to take part in the Battle of Canton in December 1857 during the Second Opium War. He later commanded a specially-formed Baltic Fleet created in February 1878 to intimidate Russia from entering Constantinople during the closing stages of the Russo-Turkish War. He became First Naval Lord in August 1879 in which role he was primarily interested in administration and technology rather than strategy: he kept the cost of running the Navy within budgets, sanctioned the construction of six Admiral-class battleships and ensured the Navy was properly prepared for the Panjdeh Incident in 1885 when Russian forces seized Afghan territory at Panjdeh.
Admiral Sir AstleyCooperKey, GCB, FRS, ADC (18 January 1821 – 3 March 1888) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle...
was cancelled, and he became pupil of AstleyCooper, at a large cost, and in 1817–8 he lived with Cooper. Key became demonstrator of anatomy at St. Thomas's...
Lord 12 August 1879: Commission William Henry Smith, First Lord Sir AstleyCooperKey, First Naval Lord Arthur Acland Hood, Second Naval Lord Lord Gillford...
November. One of the lieutenants on board was the future Admiral Sir AstleyCooperKey. Hotham's last active service was as a commodore on the coast of Africa...
Augustus Eliot Major-General Sir Frederick Abbott, Indian Army Captain AstleyCooperKey, Royal Navy Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Lefroy, Royal Artillery...
Navy unless the Chief of the Defence Staff is a naval officer. Admiral Ben Key was appointed First Sea Lord in November 2021. Originally titled the "Senior...
Hants. His latest published work was a biography of his friend Sir AstleyCooperKey, and his last article was a critical examination of the tactics adopted...
Crespigny. Rose was the daughter of Admiral Sir AstleyCooperKey (who later changed the surname to Cooper-Key) and his wife, Lady Charlotte Lavinia (née McNeil)...
Lieut. Reginald Thomas John Levinge) Fanny, schooner (one gun, Lieut. AstleyCooperKey) French San Martin (eight guns, Capt. François Thomas Tréhouart) Fulton...
the Cinque Ports (1883), and a contribution to the Memoirs of Sir AstleyCooperKey by Vice-Admiral Philip Howard Colomb (1898). Burrows was active in...
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