In 1992 Professor Jon Sumida stated that 'Richmond was Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance in 1910,' which is evidently untrue, and one can only assume that Professor Sumida was confusing an Assistant to the D.N.O. He was promoted to the rank of Commander dated 1 January, 1903, and on 8 January he was appointed to the Naval Ordnance Department as an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance. As a torpedo officer he served in several battleships, including two years in the Majestic, flagship of the Channel Squadron. He was still unfit on 19 February, 1894, and was given another survey six weeks later and found fit on 2 April. He was again found unfit on 9 December, with another survey scheduled two months later.

On 12 September he asked to leave the Surveying Branch and return to General Service.

He left Stork on 31 August, 1893 owing to fever, and on 11 September, 1893 he was reported unfit and ordered to be resurveyed in two months. On 3 January, 1893 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, dated to 13 November, 1892. Ottley, could not gain an appointment to H.M.S. He attempted to qualify in Gunnery, but, with Charles L. Stork on 15 August, to which ship he was reappointed on 13 November. He joined the Surveying Branch and was appointed to gunboat H.M.S. On 21 July, 1892 he was confirmed in the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, dated 14 January, 1891. He entered the training ship Britannia, in 1885 two years later he went to sea as a Midshipman in the Nelson, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief on the Australia Station. He attended St Mark's School, near Windsor. Herbert had first developed an interest in joining the navy when, at the age of ten, he had visited Portsmouth. 1916), daughter of William Richards of Cardiff. Richmond was born at Beavor Lodge, Hammersmith, London, on 15 September, 1871, the third child and second son of the artist Sir William Blake Richmond (1842–1921) and his second wife, Clara Jane (d.

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