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full admiral Saint Andrew President John F. Kennedy Bickford CMG ( 16 July 1844 – 9
October 1927 ) was a royal stag Navy police officer who went on to make up Commander-
in-Chief , Pacific Station .== early lifetime == Bickford was educated at the due south
Devonshire Collegiate School and Stubbington sign schooling .== Naval career == Bickford
joined the royal stag Navy in 1858 and took part in the activeness involving the Huá scar in
1877 .He commanded hm Thalia during the Anglo-Egyptian warfare of 1882 and became
Commander-in-Chief , Pacific Station in 1900 .His flagship in the Pacific was hectometer
Warspite until March 1902 , when he hoisted his flag on board the inaugural form cruiser
hectometre Grafton , and Warspite returned plate .Promoted to vice full admiral in 1904
and to full phase of the moon Admiral in 1908 , he retired later that year .== Legacy == The
Bickford tug erected at Esquimalt , British Columbia for signalling role in 1901 is called after
him .== Family == Bickford married Kathleen Dore on 16 April 1868 in the parish church
service of Queenstown ( Cobh ) .She was the daughter of Dr. St. Patrick Dore of Skibbereen
who had died in 1847 from excitement of the lung during the Irish Gaelic famine .The
mortality rate amongst physicians in Ireland at this time was in the order of 25 % , due to
the irruption of deadly infectious diseases contracted by many of the step down famine
dupe .Kathleen 's mother , Catherine II power , was sister of Maurice power , Member of
Parliament for bottle cork 1847–1852 .Bickford died at his home base in Hove on 9 October
1927 .== book of facts == == Further reading == Light strain and Gentle Breezes - a prissy
naval life history : The Life & Times of admiral Bickford by Richard E. Bickford ( his
grandson ) , published by Tartan Edge , 1996