caption serviceyears branch commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
admiral sir anthony hoskins 1842 - 1893 23px royal navy hms '' hecate '' hms '' plumper '' hms '' zebra '' '' hms '' eclipse '' hms '' sultan '' australia beaver station mediterranean fleet '' hms '' slaney '' hms 21 june 1901 dorking , surrey , england north perrott , somerset , england united kingdom united kingdom knight grand cross of the order of the bath cape frontier war second opium war anglo-egyptian war 01 september 1828 admiral hileyhoskins.jpg anthony hoskins
 sir anthony hoskins
anthony hoskins

admiral sir anthony hiley hoskins , -lrb- 1 september 1828 -- 21 june 1901 -rrb- , was a royal navy officer .
as a junior officer , he took part in the cape frontier war of 1851 and then saw action at the battle of canton in december 1857 and the battle of taku forts in may 1858 during second opium war .
once promoted to flag officer rank , he acted as second-in-command of the fleet at the bombardment of alexandria in july 1882 during the anglo-egyptian war .
he went on to be first naval lord in september 1891 but in that role took a relaxed view of the size of the fleet and did not see the need for a large shipbuilding effort on the scale envisaged by some of his colleagues such as admiral sir frederick richards and admiral sir john fisher who were concerned about french and german naval expansion .
