Admiral Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, (né Meade; 3 November 1875 – 27 October 1964) was a British admiral in the

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Biography

He was born in London as Herbert Meade, the third son of the then Baron Gillford, who later became, in 1879, The 4th Earl of Clanwilliam, later Admiral of the Fleet, and Elizabeth Henrietta Kennedy. He adopted the additional surname of Fetherstonhaugh by Royal Licence in 1931. HMS Goshawk (1911)

He joined the Royal Navy and was promoted

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in 1897. In November 1902, he was posted to the

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HMS ''Venerable'', as she received its first commission going to the

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. He was promoted to commander in 1908 and captain in 1914. In 1912 he was given command of HMS ''Goshawk'' which took part in the Battle of Heligoland in 1914 and was instrumental in the sinking of the German destroyer ''V187''. He was in command of the light cruisers HMS ''Royalist'' at the

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in 1916 and HMS ''Ceres'' at the

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in 1917. From April 1918 to April 1919 he was the Naval Assistant to the

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and then took command for a short time of the battlecruiser HMS ''Renown'' before being appointed for three years as Captain of the

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(1923–26). In 1924 he was also appointed Naval Aide-de-Camp to the king. He was made a

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(CVO) in July 1922, a

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(CB) in the

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and advanced to

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(KCVO) in May 1929. He was promoted to vice-admiral on 8 May 1930 and in 1931 given the post of Vice-Admiral Commanding H.M. Yachts, a position he held until December 1934. He was promoted to the rank of admiral on 31 July 1934, advanced to Knight Grand Gross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in December of that year and retired at his own request in July 1936. Uppark-Sfront-01

From 1939 to 1946 he was Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Lords. He died in 1964. He had married in 1911 Margaret Isabel Frances Glyn, the daughter of the Rt. Rev. Hon.

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, the Bishop of Peterborough and had 2 sons and 2 daughters. The youngest son, John Herbert Meade, succeeded his cousin as the 7th Earl Clanwilliam. The family lived at

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, Sussex which the admiral inherited in 1930.

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