Beresford in a Dogger Bank war

What senior role might Beresford have held if Britain and Russia had gone to war after the Dogger Bank incident?

He likely would have commanded the Mediterranean Fleet in an operation aimed through the Dardanelles toward the Black Sea and Crimea.

Beresford commanded the Mediterranean Fleet at the relevant moment. A British response could therefore have sent his force through the Dardanelles toward Russian positions around Crimea. The counterfactual places an officer whose peacetime judgement is being criticized in a central wartime command.