Vice-Admiral Philip Howard Colomb, RN. Born in Knockbrex, near Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, he was a Royal Navy officer, historian, critic and inventor. He was the son of General George Thomas Colomb (1787–1874). His younger brother Sir John Colomb was also a soldier and strategist of the Royal Navy.
Colomb attended the court martial at Portsmouth of Captain Ernest Rice as his friend, following the loss of HMS Sultan. The Graphic, 1889
Sir John Charles Ready Colomb, was a British naval strategist and politician.
"The Rule of the Road at Sea". Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1887.