Doughty, Frederic Proby, Rear-Admiral, 1834-1892.

The papers include logs, 1847 to 1854; journals, 1860 to 1864, and 1878 to 1883; official letterbooks, 1866 to 1872, and 1882 to 1887; a personal letterbook, 1867 to 1876; an order book, 1860 to 1864; and notes and drawings on torpedoes compiled in 1868. Although Doughty's career was comparatively uneventful, he was a man of wide interests and his journals are of more than official interest.

Administrative / biographical background
Doughty was born at Woodbridge in Suffolk in 1834, the eldest son of Frederick Goodwin Doughty and Beatrice Doughty née Cunningham, the daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Cunningham. He entered the Navy as a cadet in HMS VICTORY in 1847. He went to the Mediterranean in HMS RODNEY and remained there firstly in HMS HOWE and then in HMS BULLDOG. From 1850 to 1854 he was in HMS PORTLAND on a voyage to Pitcairn Island and, still on the Pacific Station, he joined HMS CENTAUR in 1855, the year in which he became a lieutenant. From 1860 Doughty was in the Mediterranean as first lieutenant of HMS FOXHOUND until 1864. He was appointed to command HMS WEAZEL in 1866 on the China Station and returned to the River Shannon in 1868 to take up coastguard duties in HMS VALIANT. His next commission was to the East Indies in HMS MAGPIE, 1870 to 1872, and he was promoted to captain in 1875. Between 1878 and 1881 he commanded the troopship HMS CROCODILE, until he was sent to HMS CONSTANCE on the Pacific Station, 1882 to 1886, during which time he court-martialled his first lieutenant. His last command was HMS REVENGE, the flagship at Queenstown, in 1887, and he was placed on the retired list as rear-admiral in 1890. Doughty died at Lowestoft and was buried at St. Mary's church at Martlesham in 1892.