Adolphus Slade

Sir Adolphus Slade CB (1804 – 13 November 1877) was a British admiral who became an admiral in the Ottoman Navy.^[1]

He was the fifth son of General Sir John Slade.

Career

1815: Entered Navy^[2]
1827: Lieutenant
1841: Commander
1849: Captain
1849–1866: Admiral in the Turkish navy, with the title of Mushaver (consulting) Pasha. This included the Crimean War. In 1854, his flagship was a 72-gun frigate.^[3]
1858: KCB
1866: Rear-Admiral
1867: Retired Rear-Admiral
1873: Retired Vice-Admiral

Slade, who has been described as "one of the best nineteenth-century writers on the Middle East",^[4] wrote a number of books:^[5]

Records of travels in Turkey, Greece, &c. and of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the years 1829,1830, and 1831 (1833)
Turkey, Greece and Malta (1837)
The sultan and Mehemet Ali; or, The present crisis in Turkey. (1839)
Travels in Germany and Russia: including a steam voyage by the Danube and the Euxine from Vienna to Constantinople, in 1838-39 (1840)
A Few Words on Naval Construction and Naval promotion. (1846)
Maritime States and Military Navies (1859)
Turkey and the Crimean War: a narrative of historical events (1867)
An Historical Catechism of the Church of England, from the Apostles’ times to the mission of St. Augustine. Compiled chiefly for the young (1883).

↑ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". Retrieved 14 December 2017.
↑ "Biography of Adolphus Slade R.N." www.pdavis.nl. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
↑ Zealand, National Library of New. "Papers Past - HOSTILITIES ON THE BLACK SEA. (Daily Southern Cross, 1854-03-24)". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
↑ Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Bernard Lewis Foreign Affairs, May/June 2005
↑ Adolphus Slade in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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