• The Examination for Lieutenant is an episode of the British television series Hornblower. It is loosely based on part of the 1950 novel Mr. Midshipman...
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  • Hornblower (TV series) (category Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries winners)
    1998) The Examination for Lieutenant (U.S. title: The Fire Ship) (18 November 1998) The Duchess and the Devil (24 February 1999) The Frogs and the Lobsters...
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  • to the Admiralty, introduced the first examination for lieutenant, and thereafter their seniority was dated from the passing of this examination. A lieutenant...
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  • midshipman named Simpson. Simpson, at age thirty-three, had failed his examination for lieutenant too many times to ever expect promotion. He takes out his bitterness...
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  • Midshipman (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    to take the examination for lieutenant. Promotion to lieutenant was not automatic, and many midshipmen took positions as master's mates for an increase...
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    Hornblower - The Examination for Lieutenant.[citation needed] McNeice has also appeared in a number of films, including 84 Charing Cross Road, Day of the Dead...
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  • Lieutenant Jolyon Baker as Captain Joubert Colin MacLachlan as Master Bowles As seen in episode one, The Even Chance. As seen in The Examination for Lieutenant...
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  • and theatre. He is known for his role as the angelic quartermaster in the Amazon Prime series Good Omens. Jonathan Aris is the son of Yemaiel Oven and...
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    Academy, in Yorkshire, England, for several years before becoming an actor. He started acting professionally at the age of 30, playing Bill Sikes in...
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  • to take the examination for lieutenant. Promotion to lieutenant was not automatic, and many midshipmen took positions as master's mates for an increase...
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    Denis Lawson (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
    Crieff Primary School). After the 11-plus examination, he attended Morrison's Academy as a day pupil before attending the Royal Scottish Academy of Music...
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  • Andrew Tiernan (category Alumni of the Drama Centre London)
    Susan Vidler. In 1998, in the British TV series Hornblower, he played Bunting in the second episode, "The Examination For Lieutenant". Other credits in television...
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    Ioan Gruffudd (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    teens, achieving a Grade 8 level in the ABRSM music examinations and playing in the South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra for several years, but gave it up once...
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    (1996) as Jerry The Lakes (1997) as Peter Quinlan Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998) as Matthews Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant (1998) as Matthews...
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  • Sean Gilder (category Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art)
    best known for his portrayal of Styles on Hornblower and Paddy Maguire on Shameless from 2005 to 2010. He has appeared in Doctor Who (as the Sycorax Leader)...
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    certification by the lieutenant's examination board. Board eligibility was most often achieved by serving as a midshipman, although the career path of a...
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  • Treason's Harbour (category Fiction set in the 1810s)
    take the examination for lieutenant. Mr Maitland: Midshipman (master's mate) under Aubrey with enough years of service to take the examination for lieutenant...
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  • Jonathan Coy (category Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
    as Henry in the long-running legal series Rumpole of the Bailey and as Bracegirdle in the television series Hornblower, adapted from the books by C. S...
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  • orders them to do it on his behalf. At a hospital, the lieutenant spies on the nun's examination and learns that she was penetrated with a crucifix....
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    Joseph Cotton (mariner) (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    Nathaniel Cotton. He entered the Royal Navy in 1760 and passed the examination for lieutenant, but left the navy and joined the East India Company. He made...
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  • Volunteer-per-order (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    spending two years at sea and passing the examination for lieutenant. The letter instructed the admirals and captains that the bearer was to be shown "such kindness...
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  • SSB interview and a medical examination. Selected candidates would then be trained for one and a half years before joining the units as JCOs. Subsequently...
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  • Charles Elers Napier (category Military personnel of the Liberal Wars)
    off in January 1832. Later that year he passed the examination for Lieutenant and was assigned to the gunnery school in HMS Excellent. When during Portugal's...
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  • generally wear the gold or silver eagle of a military colonel, and lieutenant colonels have the oak leaf of a Military lieutenant colonel, from the U.S. armed...
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    lieutenant in 1867; the rank gradually fell out of use from around 1890 since all lieutenants were required to pass the same examinations. When the United...
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  • found at the scene of an inexplicable multiple homicide. Sheriff Burke finds no signs of forced entry, and Lieutenant Wade suggests that the victims were...
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  • Master's mate (category Military ranks of the Royal Navy)
    likely to be a superior midshipman, still waiting to pass his examination for lieutenant or to receive his commission, but taking rather more responsibility...
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  • Miller Worsley (category Royal Navy personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
    Swiftsure. Although he passed the examination for Lieutenant in 1810, owing to the large numbers of officers in the Royal Navy at the time he was still a midshipman...
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    was important to naval officers. The certificate of examination for lieutenants in the Royal Navy once declared that the prospective officer was able to...
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  • Jack Aubrey (category Fictional lieutenants)
    some Latin and the mathematics associated with a sailing ship and its navigation so that he could pass his examination for lieutenant, an event that happened...
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