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KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 767 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888) , English
admiral
 , was born in London in 1821, and entered the navy in 1833. His father was Charles
Aston
  Key (1793-1849), a well-known surgeon, the pupil of Sir
Astley
  Cooper, and his
mother
  was the latter's niece. After distinguishing himself in active service abroad, on the
South
  American station (1844-1846), in the Baltic during the Crimean War (C.B. 1855) and China (1857), Key was appointed in 1858 a member of the royal commission on national defence,-in 186o captain of the steam reserve at Devonport, and in 1863 captain of H.M.S. " Excellent " and superintendent of the Royal Naval College. He had a considerable share in advising as to the reorganization of administration, and in 1866, having become rear-
admiral
 , was made director of naval ordnance. Between 1869 and 1872 he held the offices of superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard, superintendent of Malta dockyard, and second in command in the Mediterranean. In 1872 he was made president of the projected Royal Naval College at Greenwich, which was organized by him, and after its opening in 1873 he was made a K.C.B. and a vice-admiral. In 1876 he was appointed
commander
 -in-
chief
  on the North American and West Indian station. Having become full admiral in 1878, he was appointed in 1879
principal
  A.D.C., and soon afterwards first naval lord of the admiralty, retaining this post till 1885. In 1882 he was made G.C.B. He died at Maidenhead on the 3rd of
March
 , 1888.
See Memoirs of Sir
Astley
  Cooper Key, by Vice-Admiral Colomb (1898).


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