Charles Royds

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Charles Royds (1900)

Sir Charles William Rawson Royds KBE (born February 1, 1876 in Rochdale , Lancashire , † January 5, 1931 in London ) was an officer in the Royal Navy who later worked for the Metropolitan Police in London. He was a member of the Discovery Expedition to Antarctica, led by Robert Falcon Scott , where Cape Royds was named after him.

Life

After attending Eastman's Royal Naval Academy in Southsea , he began his training as a midshipman on the HMS Conway in June 1892 . Two months later he was on the cruiser HMS Immortalité , which was used for the Canal Fleet. As a midshipman , he served on the cruisers HMS Australia and HMS Barfleur . In September 1896 he was promoted to sub-lieutenant . In 1897 he served on the cruiser HMS Champion . In 1898 he was promoted to lieutenant . One of the reasons for this was his skillful and prudent behavior as the commander of a boat that rescued a man who had gone overboard in the Baltic Sea. In 1899 he sailed to the West Indies on board the HMS Crescent .

From 1901 to 1904 Royds was a First Lieutenant on the RRS Discovery and a participant in the Discovery Expedition . In addition to his work in connection with the ship, he was entrusted with the meteorology there, after having completed a corresponding training in the weather station on the Ben Nevis in 1900 . His musical talent is also mentioned in the records of the Discovery Expedition: he played the harmonium during church services and piano at dinner . Scott said his dinner game was an important factor in keeping everyone in a good mood while they ate. Royds' uncle had been on the previous Discovery expedition in the 1870s.

After the expedition, he served on the battleship HMS Bulwark in the Mediterranean , and in 1907 on the HMS King Edward VII in the Canal Fleet. In June 1909 he became an executive officer with the rank of commander . In January 1911, now First Executive Officer, he served on the battleship HMS Hercules and in August 1913 on the HMS Iron Duke , a new warship and at the same time the flagship of Admiral Jellicoe .

On December 31, 1914, Royds was made captain and became 2nd flag captain under Admiral Sir Stanley Colville , for Orkney and Shetland . Just six months later he was given command of the battleship HMS Emperor of India , an already very important command for a very young captain. He held this command until January 1919. For his services in the First World War, he was awarded the Order of St. Michael and St. George on June 3, 1919 . After a short period of service in Dover, he was Captain of the Royal Naval College Osborne from January 2, 1921 until it closed in May 1921 . From May 17, 1921 he was director of training and sports in the Admiralty, where he replaced his older brother Percy (later also Admiral) in this position. His last assignment for the Royal Navy was from October 1923 to October 15, 1925 as a Commodore for the Royal Naval Barracks in Devonport .

On January 1, 1926, he succeeded Sir James Olive as Assistant Commissioner "A" and Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service . In March of the same year he retired from the Royal Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral . Three years later, on June 3, 1929, he was awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). In 1930 he was promoted to Vice-Admiral of the Reserve.

On January 5, 1931, he died of a heart attack in London while rehearsing a Strauss ball at the Savoy Hotel , which took place there two days later.

Private life

The tall Royds was engaged to Marguerite Makowski, whom he had met before the Discovery expedition when he had taught her brothers math. According to Makowski, the engagement was broken off because Royd's parents did not accept the relationship between the two.

Boyds married the former actress Mary Louisa Blane (1881-1949) on October 5, 1918. She had been married to Guy Ivo Sebright (1883–1912) from 1904 until the divorce in 1906. Charles Royds and his wife had a daughter, Minna Mary Jessica Royds (1919-1992).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scott's Hut Point Crew. In: nzaht.org. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
  2. ^ TH Baughman: Pilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott's First Antarctic Expedition , U of Nebraska Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8032-1639-6 , p. 146, limited preview in Google Book Search
  3. ^ Elspeth Huxley: Scott of the Antarctic , U of Nebraska Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8032-7248-0 , p. 280, limited preview in Google Book Search
  4. ^ Paul Ward: Charles WR Royds - Biographical notes. In: coolantarctica.com. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt , Thelma Furness : Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography , Pickle Partners Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78720-439-3 , limited preview in Google Book Search
  6. ^ Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, Lt. Charles Royds and his Sporting Medal. In: spri.cam.ac.uk. 2014, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b Minna Mary Jessica ROYDS b. 26 Jun 1919 d. 1992 Dorset, England. In: wyndhammarsh.co.uk. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Person: Mary Blane (1) - Genealogy. In: werelate.org. November 7, 2013, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Mary Louisa Blane. In: thepeerage.com. March 11, 2017, accessed October 1, 2017 .

literature

  • The Times , London, England January 6, 1931, pp. 7 and 12
personal data
SURNAME Royds, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Royds, Charles William Rawson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British officer and policeman
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochdale , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1931
Place of death London