Henry Bradwardine Jackson
Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson GCB KCVO FRS (born January 21, 1855 in Barnsley , South Yorkshire , † December 14, 1929 on Hayling Island , Hampshire ) was a British Admiral of the Fleet who worked with Guglielmo Marconi in the field of radio telegraphy .
biography
Jackson came from a poor background and entered the Royal Navy in 1868 at the age of thirteen after attending Stubbington House School in Fareham . After serving in the Zulu War in 1879 , he developed an interest in the mechanics of torpedoes . He later directed some of the earliest experiments in the field of radio telegraphy and its application to navigation . He succeeded in installing a radio unit on the HMS Defiance and sending a radio transmission over the length of the ship.
In 1896 he was able to send radio signals over a distance of several hundred meters. In 1897 he was promoted to sea captain and sent to attend a conference where he met the telecommunications pioneer Guglielmo Marconi. In the following years they worked together and received 1900 budget funds for the installation of radio telegraphy systems on the ships of the Royal Navy. For his scientific achievements he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1901 .
He then took on increasingly important roles within the management of the Royal Nay and was initially Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy between 1905 and 1908 and Director of the Royal Naval War College in Portsmouth from 1911 to 1915 .
Subsequently, during the First World War from 1915 to 1916, he was the successor to John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher as First Sea Lord, the highest-ranking position in the Royal Navy. However, his reputation was damaged after cruiser of the Imperial Navy the English Channel arrived. After his replacement by John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe , he was director of the Royal Naval War College in Greenwich between 1916 and 1917 as successor to Lewis Bayly .
In the last year of the First World War he was aide-de-camp of King George V in 1917 and held this position until 1919. Most recently in 1920 he was chairman of the Navy's radio research authority and advocated the spread of wireless transmission methods . In 1924 he was retired as Admiral of the Fleet.
Most recently he was a member of the British National Committee for Radio Telegraphy from 1926 until his death. At the beginning of this tenure, he was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1926 , an award given by the Royal Society for original discoveries in the field of physics , particularly in the field of electromagnetism and its applications.
Henry Hughes has received several awards. In 1906 he was accepted into the personal nobility as Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and carried the suffix "Sir". In 1910 he was appointed Knight Commander and in 1916 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Bath . In addition to the knighthood of the French Legion of Honor , in 1909 he received both the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun and the Russian Order of the White Eagle .
Web links
- Henry Bradwardine Jackson in nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Knights and Dames: HOS – KIM at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| John Fisher |
First sea lord 1915–1916 |
John Jellicoe |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jackson, Henry Bradwardine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jackson, Sir Henry Bradwardine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British admiral; First sea lord |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barnsley , South Yorkshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1929 |
| Place of death | Hayling Island , Hampshire |