17 Facts About Cyprian Bridge

Admiral Sir Cyprian Arthur George Bridge was a British Royal Navy officer towards the end of the era of Pax Britannica.

Cyprian Bridge was Commander-in-chief of both the Australian Squadron and the China Squadron.

From 1851 Cyprian Bridge attended school at Walthamstow House in England.

Cyprian Bridge was nominated for the navy by Admiral Cochrane, to whom his father had been chaplain.

Cyprian Bridge passed the navy entrance examination in 1853, and was appointed to the paddle sloop HMS Medea and later to the third-rate ship of the line HMS Cumberland, flagship of the North American Station.

Cyprian Bridge subsequently served on board HMS Hawke on the Irish station, and HMS Fawn in the West Indies from 1864 to 1867.

Cyprian Bridge served for one year each on the gunnery ship HMS Cambridge and then HMS Implacable, followed by Ryder's flagship in the China Station, the battleship HMS Audacious.

Cyprian Bridge took half pay and spent time writing on the German Navy, publishing in the Journal of the Royal United Services Institution.

Cyprian Bridge was appointed deputy commissioner for the Western Pacific, with command of the Osprey class sloop HMS Espiegle in Australia.

Cyprian Bridge was Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty from 1889 to 1894 and helped found the Navy Records Society in 1893 with naval historian Sir John Knox Laughton.

In November 1894 Cyprian Bridge was promoted to rear-admiral and became Commander-in-Chief of the Australian squadron aboard the cruiser HMS Orlando.

Cyprian Bridge was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1899 Birthday Honours.

Cyprian Bridge was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the China Station in 1901, arriving in Yokohama in early June where he hoisted his flag in the battleship HMS Glory.

Cyprian Bridge was an assessor on the North Sea Enquiry Commission investigation into the 1904 Dogger Bank incident.

Cyprian Bridge was Admiralty Representative on the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation from 1906 to 1912.

Cyprian Bridge Island is named after his uncle, Major Cyprian Bridge of the British Army.

Cyprian Bridge built Coombe Pines in Kingston Hill, Surrey, where he died in 1924.