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The Hon. Hugh Tyrwhitt (14 July 1856 – 26 October 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty. He was the father of noted aesthete and composer

Lord Berners Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 188319 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete. He was also known as Lord Berners. Biography Early life and education ...

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 Tyrwhitt succeeded as 13th

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, and his sister Hon. Arden Mary Tyrwhitt was the wife of

Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, (16 July 1837 – 15 August 1924) was a British courtier. He served as Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1901 to 1913. Background and education Knollys was the son of Sir William Thomas Knol ...

, Private Secretary to King Edward VII.

Career

He was commissioned a

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in the Royal Navy in June 1876, and promoted to lieutenant in February 1881. He served as flag lieutenant to the Commander-in-Chief of the

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, served with the Naval Brigade in

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and took part in the

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to relieve General Charles Gordon in 1884.Captain Tyrwhitt
Liverpool Herald, 4 July 1904 Promotion to

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followed in June 1893, and to

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in January 1889. On 19 March 1900 he was appointed in command of the

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''Renown'', flag ship to Admiral Sir John Fisher, Commander-in-Chief of the

. Fisher hauled down his flag in June 1902 to become

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, and Tyrwhitt was succeeded as captain on the ''Renown'' by Arthur Farquhar. Following Fisher's recommendation, Tyrwhitt was on 9 October that year appointed Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty.Senior Royal Navy Appointments
In 1905 he was again given command of the ''Renown'' and escorted the Duke and

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to India.Obituary: Captain Tyrwhitt, R.N., The Times, 1 November 1907 He died two years later.

Personal life

On 10 August 1882, Tyrwhitt was married to Julia Mary Foster (d. 1931), a daughter of William Orme Foster, MP for South Staffordshire, and the former Isabella Grazebrook. Together, they were the parents of: *

Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 188319 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete. He was also known as Lord Berners. Biography Early life and education ...

(1883–1950), the composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete who never married. Tyrwhitt died on 26 October 1907.

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