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Hugh Tyrwhitt
Captain (Royal Navy), Captain The Hon. Hugh Tyrwhitt (14 July 1856 – 26 October 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Naval Secretary, Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty. He was the father of noted aesthete and composer Lord Berners. Early life Tyrwhitt was born in 1856, the second surviving son of Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, 3rd Baronet (son of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt-Jones, 2nd Baronet) and Harriet Tyrwhitt, 12th Baroness Berners. His elder brother Raymond Robert Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 13th Baron Berners, Raymond Tyrwhitt succeeded as 13th Baron Berners, and his sister Hon. Arden Mary Tyrwhitt was the wife of Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, Private Secretary to King Edward VII. Career He was commissioned a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy in June 1876, and promoted to Lieutenant (Royal Navy), lieutenant in February 1881. He served as flag lieutenant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, served with the Naval Brigade in Sudan and took part i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (Royal Navy)
Captain (Capt) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy. It ranks above Commander (Royal Navy), commander and below Commodore (Royal Navy), commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a colonel in the British Army and Royal Marines, and to a group captain in the Royal Air Force. There are similarly named Captain (naval), equivalent ranks in the navies of many other countries. Seagoing captains In the Royal Navy, the officer in command of any warship of the rank of Commander (Royal Navy), commander and below is informally referred to as "the captain" on board, even though holding a junior rank, but formally is titled "the commanding officer" (or CO). In former times, up until the nineteenth century, Royal Navy officers who were captains by rank and in command of a naval vessel were referred to as post-captains; this practice is now defunct. A Captain (D) or Captain Destroyers afloat was an operational commander responsible for the command of dest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |