Edward Phillpotts
Edward Montgomery Phillpotts , CB ( 1871 in Lamerton , Devon , † April 9, 1952 ) was a British Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy .
Life
Phillpotts was a son of Reverend Henry John Phillpotts and his wife Catherine Mary Robertson. His older brother was Brigadier General Louis Murray Phillpotts , who fell in France on September 8, 1916 . He himself completed training as a naval officer and then found numerous uses in the Royal Navy and served in the Kingdom of Benin in 1897 . On June 30, 1906 he became the Captain transported and 1911 was Superintendent of Schools Telecommunications (signal Schools) and during the First World War naval assistant to the staff responsible for the Second Sea Lord (Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel) . During the Skagerrak Battle from May 31 to June 1, 1916, he was in command of the battleship HMS Warspite . He was then marine aide-de-camp of King George V and remained in this position until he was promoted to rear admiral in 1918, after which he was succeeded by Captain Maurice Woollcombe on January 15, 1918.
Most recently Phillpotts, who was Companion des Order of the Bath (CB), was President of the Artillery Committee from 1920 to 1923.
Web links
- Entry into Royal Navy Flagg Officers 1904–1945
- Entry in the Liddell Hart Military Archives at King's College London
- Admiral Edward Montgomery Phillpotts on thepeerage.com , accessed March 17, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ London Gazette . No. 30501, HMSO, London, January 29, 1918, p. 1441 ( PDF , accessed July 15, 2016, English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Phillpotts, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Phillpotts, Edward Montgomery (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British rear admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lamerton , Devon |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1952 |