Robert Coote (Royal Navy officer)

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Robert Coote
Companion of the Order of the Bath

Commander-in-Chief, China Station
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Background

See also: Coote baronets

Coote was a younger son of Sir Charles Coote, 9th Baronet, by Caroline Whaley, daughter of John Whaley, of

Whaley Abbey, County Wicklow.[1]

Naval career

Educated at

Commander-in-Chief, China in 1878.[3] He retired in 1885.[2]

He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Woking Cemetery.[2] There is a memorial to him in St Catherine's Church in Tullamore in County Offaly.[4]

Family

Coote married Lucy Parry, daughter of the Arctic explorer

Major-General Cecil William Park. Coote died in March 1898, aged 77. His wife died in February 1906.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b thepeerage.com Admiral Robert Coote
  2. ^ a b c d e Visitation of Ireland By Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp, p. 112
  3. ^ a b c d William Loney RN
  4. ^ Churches in Tullamore in the 1900s By Michael Byrne Published 2007
Military offices
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown
1874–1876 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Commander-in-Chief, China Station

1878–1881 		Succeeded by
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