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In the April ''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'', Tyrwhitt's command is described for the first time as the "Harwich Striking Force,"<ref>''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' (April, 1915).  p. 13.</ref> composed of the Third and Tenth Destroyer Flotillas and the Eighth Submarine Flotilla.  In May he was assigned two completing light cruisers, which with the two under his authority would give him the command of the Fifth Light Cruiser Squadron.<ref>''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' (May, 1915).  p. 13.</ref>
In the April ''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'', Tyrwhitt's command is described for the first time as the "Harwich Striking Force,"<ref>''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' (April, 1915).  p. 13.</ref> composed of the Third and Tenth Destroyer Flotillas and the Eighth Submarine Flotilla.  In May he was assigned two completing light cruisers, which with the two under his authority would give him the command of the Fifth Light Cruiser Squadron.<ref>''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' (May, 1915).  p. 13.</ref>


On 15 July, 1917, Tyrwhitt was knighted and made a Knight Commander in the Order of the Bath.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30186/pages/7125 no. 30186.  p. 7125.]  17 July, 1917.</ref>  He was not, as Temple Patterson claims, only the second Post Captain to receive this accolade and the first in seventy-eight years.<ref>Temple Patterson.  p. 190.</ref>  Two recent examples had been the knighting of Captain [[Robert Henry More Molyneux|Robert Molyneux]] in 1885 and Captain [[Colin Richard Keppel|Colin Keppel]] in 1908.  
On 15 July, 1917, Tyrwhitt was appointed an Additional Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Order of the Bath.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30186/pages/7125 no. 30186.  p. 7125.]  17 July, 1917.</ref>  He was not, as Temple Patterson claims, only the second Post Captain to receive this accolade and the first in seventy-eight years.<ref>Temple Patterson.  p. 190.</ref>  Two recent examples had been the knighting of Captain [[Robert Henry More Molyneux|Robert Molyneux]] in 1885 and Captain [[Colin Richard Keppel|Colin Keppel]] in 1908.  


On 8 January, 1918, Tyrwhitt was appointed Acting {{RearRN}}.<ref name=Record125>Tyrwhitt Service Record.  The National Archives.  ADM 196/43.  p. 125.</ref>
On 8 January, 1918, Tyrwhitt was appointed Acting {{RearRN}}.<ref name=Record125>Tyrwhitt Service Record.  The National Archives.  ADM 196/43.  p. 125.</ref>

Revision as of 13:47, 22 July 2011

Admiral of the Fleet SIR Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, First Baronet, G.C.B., D.S.O., D.C.L., Royal Navy (10 May, 1870 – 30 May, 1951) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the First World War.

Early Life & Career

He was educated for a year at Burney's at Gosport, and passed into the Britannia on his second attempt, thirty-third out of thirty-four.[1]

He was confirmed in the rank of Sub-Lieutenant dated 14 March, 1890.[2]

Tyrwhitt was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 25 August, 1892.[3]

On 1 January, 1903 he was promoted to the rank of Commander.[4] On 24 February, 1903 Tyrwhitt married Sarah Angela Mary Margaret, daughter of Matthew Corbally, J.P., of Rathbeale Hall, Swords, County Dublin; they had one son and two daughters.

On 30 June, 1908, Tyrhwitt was promoted to the rank of Captain.[5]

On 1 December, 1913 Tyrwhitt succeeded Commodore Lambert as Captain (T) in command of the destroyer flotillas of the First Fleet. On 28 April, 1914 he was appointed Commodore, Second Class.[6]

Great War

In the April Supplement to the Monthly Navy List, Tyrwhitt's command is described for the first time as the "Harwich Striking Force,"[7] composed of the Third and Tenth Destroyer Flotillas and the Eighth Submarine Flotilla. In May he was assigned two completing light cruisers, which with the two under his authority would give him the command of the Fifth Light Cruiser Squadron.[8]

On 15 July, 1917, Tyrwhitt was appointed an Additional Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Order of the Bath.[9] He was not, as Temple Patterson claims, only the second Post Captain to receive this accolade and the first in seventy-eight years.[10] Two recent examples had been the knighting of Captain Robert Molyneux in 1885 and Captain Colin Keppel in 1908.

On 8 January, 1918, Tyrwhitt was appointed Acting Rear-Admiral.[11]

Post-War & Retirement

On 2 December, 1919 Tyrwhitt was confirmed in the rank of Rear-Admiral, vice Heaton-Ellis.[12] He was given the baronetcy of Terschelling and of the City of Oxford on 13 December, 1919, and received a grant from Parliament of £10,000 (over £180,000 in early-2000s terms).[13] He received many foreign decorations and an honorary degree of D.C.L. from Oxford (1919).

Tyrwhitt was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral on 18 January, 1925, vice Pelly.[14]

Tyrwhitt was promoted to the rank of Admiral on 27 February, 1929, vice Webb.[15]

He was placed on the Retired List on 31 July, 1939.[16]

Tyrwhitt died at Ellenden, Sandhurst, Kent, on 30 May, 1951, from perforation of the duodenum causing peritonitis.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Temple Patterson. Tyrwhitt of the Harwhich Force. p. 5.
  2. ↑ London Gazette: no. 26224. p. 5986. 17 November, 1891.
  3. ↑ London Gazette: no. 26322. p. 5016. 2 September, 1892.
  4. ↑ London Gazette: no. 27512. p. 4. 2 January, 1903.
  5. ↑ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 28151. p. 4644. 26 June, 1908.
  6. ↑ Tyrwhitt Service Record. p. 125.
  7. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (April, 1915). p. 13.
  8. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (May, 1915). p. 13.
  9. ↑ London Gazette: no. 30186. p. 7125. 17 July, 1917.
  10. ↑ Temple Patterson. p. 190.
  11. ↑ Tyrwhitt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. p. 125.
  12. ↑ London Gazette: no. 27512. p. 15745. 19 December, 1919.
  13. ↑ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. III. p. 3968.
  14. ↑ London Gazette: no. 33015. p. 591. 27 January, 1925.
  15. ↑ London Gazette: no. 33474. p. 1575. 5 March, 1929.
  16. ↑ London Gazette: no. 34651. p. 5393. 4 August, 1939.

Bibliography

  • "Adm. of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt" (Obituaries). The Times. Thursday, 31 May, 1951. Issue 52015, col G, pg. 8.
  • "Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt" (Obituaries). The Times. Wednesday, 27 June, 1951. Issue 52038, col F, pg. 8.
  • Temple Patterson, Alfred (1973). Tyrwhitt of the Harwich Force: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 0-356-04530-7.

Service Record


Naval Offices
Preceded by
Sir John F. E. Green 		Commanding Officer, Coast of Scotland and Admiral Superintendent of Rosyth Dockyard
1923 – 1925 		Succeeded by
Sir Walter H. Cowan
Preceded by
Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair 		Commander-in-Chief on the China Station
1926 – 1929 		Succeeded by
Sir Arthur K. Waistell
Preceded by
Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair 		Commander-in-Chief at the Nore
1930 – 1933 		Succeeded by
Sir Hugh J. Tweedie
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