Marriage and Retirement
Bythesea married Fanny Prior in 1875, and was retired from the Navy on 5 August 1877. He received a retirement promotion to Rear Admiral. (There was no merit in such a promotion; it was automatic for captains on retirement.)
He served as consulting naval officer to the Indian Government from 1874, until the Indian Navy was restructured in 1880. He was made a Companion of the Bath (CB) and a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1878.
He died at South Kensington on 18 May 1906 and was buried at Bath Abbey Cemetery, Somerset.
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