Portrait; head and shoulders in uniform, with medals and ADC's braid. Key was notable as a Victorian naval officer who embraced the new 'steam and steel' technology very early. Though never notable as a 'blue water' strategist, he was an effective sea-going officer, a very effiecient administrator and served as founding President of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, 1872-76. It opened in 1873 in the old Greenwich Hospital buildings after Key had organised its transfer from Portsmouth. Members of the College subscribed for his three-quarter-length oil portrait to be painted by Edward Travanyon Haynes (1840-1922) to mark the end of his term there in 1876. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1877 and remains in the Admiral's House there, although the College itself (now part of the Joint Services Defence College) left Greenwich for Wilthsire in 1998. [PvdM 1/22]