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VIII REAR-ADMIRAL ARTHUR CAVENAGH LEVESON, C.B. KVR-ADMIRAL ARTHUR CAVENAGH LEVESON, C.B. (Civil), C.B. (Military), was born in 1868, and after going to a private school, began his Naval education on board the " Britannia." As a young man he gained Five Firsts, the Beaufort Testimonial and Goodenough Medal. He qualified in gunnery. He served as Gunnery Lieutenant in the " Victoria " in 1893, and was on board when she sank after collision with the " Camperdown ' off Tripoli. He was ist Gunnery Officer at Whale Island (H.M.S. " Excellent "), and Brigade Major to the Naval Brigade in London on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 1897, for which he received the Jubilee Medal. He was promoted to Commander from Whale Island, and became a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.- He served as Commander for the whole of the first commission of the " Canopus," and was promoted to Captain on July ist, 1903. From August, 1903, to February, 1905, he was Naval Assistant to the Controller of the Navy. He served as Flag Captain to Admiral Sir William May, Commander- in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, and took part in 1905 in the original initiation of the Entente Cordiale at Brest and in Paris, for which he received the Croix d'Officier of the Legion of Honour.