Admiral Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore, (23 December 1864 – 8 November 1940) was a

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officer who served as

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from 1923 to 1926.

Naval career

Phillimore was born at

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in Cornwall on 23 December 1864, the son of Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore, and educated at

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. He joined the

in 1878,Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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on 20 August 1886, and to commander on 1 January 1899. He was posted to on 27 March 1900, and joined her in the

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where she took part in the response to the Boxer Rebellion later in 1900. He was given command of in 1903 and then led the Naval Brigade Machine Guns in Somaliland the next year. He was then given command of in 1907, in 1909 and the battlecruiser in 1911. Phillimore served in the

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, resuming command of HMS ''Inflexible'' in 1914, and then as Principal Beach Master for the landings at

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in the

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in April 1915. He went on to be liaison officer to the Imperial Russian Headquarters in 1915 and commander of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron of the

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in 1916. He was then made Admiral commanding the Aircraft of the Grand Fleet in 1917, and took part in

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in November that year. After the war, Phillimore was appointed President of the Postwar Questions Committee and then commanded the Reserve Fleet from 1920. He was made

in 1923. He was

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from 1928, and retired in 1929. Phillimore is buried at Shedfield in

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Family

In 1905 he married Violet Turton; they had three sons and one daughter.

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