Robert Coote (Royal Navy officer)

Educated at Eton College,^[2] Coote joined the Royal Navy in 1833^[3] and served on the coast of Syria in 1840.^[2] He was made commander of the sloop HMS Volcano in 1851 while serving in the West Africa Squadron.^[3] Promoted to captain in 1854, he commanded HMS Victory from 1860, HMS Gibraltar from 1864 and HMS Arethusa from 1867.^[3] He became Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown in 1874^[2] and 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]

in Brookwood CemeteryCoote married Lucy Parry, daughter of the Arctic explorer Admiral Sir William Parry, in 1854. They had one son, Stanley Victor Coote, High Sheriff of Roscommon in 1900, and a daughter, Caroline Maud Coote, who married Major-General Cecil William Park. Coote died in March 1898, aged 77. His wife died in February 1906.^[1]