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| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[Cresswell John Eyres|Cresswell J. Eyres]]''' | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[Cresswell John Eyres|Cresswell J. Eyres]]''' | ||
− | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| '''[[H.M.S. Temeraire (1907)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Temeraire'']]'''<br>1913 – | + | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| '''[[H.M.S. Temeraire (1907)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Temeraire'']]'''<br>1913 – 1915 |
| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[Edwin Veale Underhill|Edwin V. Underhill]]''' | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[Edwin Veale Underhill|Edwin V. Underhill]]''' | ||
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+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[William Edmund Goodenough|William E. Goodenough]]''' | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| '''[[First Light Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral Commanding, First Light Cruiser Squadron]]'''<br>1915 – 1917 | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[Walter Henry Cowan, First Baronet|Walter H. Cowan]]''' | ||
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+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''New Command''' | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| '''[[Sixth Light Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral Commanding, Sixth Light Cruiser Squadron]]'''<br>1917 – 1919 | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''Command Renamed''' | ||
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+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[Allen Thomas Hunt|Allen T. Hunt]]''' | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| '''[[Third Light Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral Commanding, Third Light Cruiser Squadron]]'''<br>1919 | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[George Price Webley Hope|Sir George P. W. Hope]]''' | ||
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+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee|Sir Charles L. Vaughan-Lee]]''' | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| '''[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard|Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard]]'''<br>1920 – 1922 | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant|Sir Edmund P. F. Grant]]''' | ||
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+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[William Coldingham Masters Nicholson|Sir William C. M. Nicholson]]''' | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| '''[[First Battle Squadron (Royal Navy)|Vice-Admiral Commanding, First Battle Squadron]]'''<br>1922 – 1924 | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[William Wordsworth Fisher|William W. Fisher]]''' | ||
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+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[Allan Frederic Everett|Sir Allan F. Everett]]''' | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| '''[[China Station|Commander-in-Chief on the China Station]]'''<br>1925 – 1926 | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, First Baronet|Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, Bart.]]''' | ||
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+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[William Edmund Goodenough|Sir William E. Goodenough]]''' | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| '''[[Commander-in-Chief at the Nore]]'''<br>1927 – 1930 | ||
+ | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, First Baronet|Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, Bart.]]''' | ||
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| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[William Edmund Goodenough|Sir William E. Goodenough]]''' | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[William Edmund Goodenough|Sir William E. Goodenough]]''' |
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Admiral THE MUCH HONOURED SIR Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair, G.C.B., M.V.O, Royal Navy (12 December, 1865 – 13 November, 1945) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the First World War.
Contents
Early Life & Career
Edwyn Sinclair Alexander was born at Malta on 12 December, 1865, the second son of Captain John Hobhouse Inglis Alexander, C.B., Royal Navy, and Isabella Barbara.
He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 January, 1890.[1] On 18 February he was appointed Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Tracey, Rear-Admiral Second-in-Command of the Channel Squadron.[2] On 12 September he was reappointed to the Alexandra as Flag Lieutenant to Tracey's successor, Rear-Admiral Loftus F. Jones.[3]
He was appointed to Victory on 3 August, 1897, as Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bart.[4]
Alexander-Sinclair was promoted to the rank of Commander on 11 January, 1901.[5]
Captain
Alexander-Sinclair was promoted to the rank of Captain on 30 June, 1905.[6]
He was appointed a Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.) dated 1 October, 1908.[7]
On 1 September, 1913, he was appointed in command of Temeraire.[8]
Great War
On 8 February, 1915, Alexander-Sinclair was appointed Commodore, Second Class Commanding the First Light Cruiser Squadron, and he hoisted his broad pendant in the Galatea on 16 February.[9]
In the King's Birthday Honours of 3 June, 1916, Alexander-Sinclair was appointed an Additional Member of the Third Class, or Companion, in the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.).[10]. On 26 April, 1917, he was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral,[11] and on 11 July he was appointed Rear-Admiral Commanding, Sixth Light Cruiser Squadron with his flag in the Cardiff.[12]
Post-War Commands
Alexander-Sinclair was appointed an Additional Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Military Division of the Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) on 1 January, 1919.[13]
Alexander-Sinclair was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral on 4 April, 1922, vice Phipps Hornby.[14]
On 4 October, 1926, he was promoted to the rank of Admiral, vice Browning.[15]
Alexander-Sinclair was appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George V on 23 May, 1930.[16] He was placed on the Retired List on 12 December.[17] In the King's Birthday Honours of 3 June of that year, Alexander-Sinclair was appointed an Ordinary member of the First Class, or Knight Grand Cross, in the Military Division of the Order of the Bath (G.C.B.).[18]
Who was Who
ALEXANDER-SINCLAIR, Admiral Sir Edwyn Sinclair GCB, 1930; KCB, 1919; CB 1916; MVO 1908
Born 1865; 2nd s of Capt. John Hobhouse Inglis Alexander, Royal Navy, CB (d 1875), and Isabella Barbara (d 1884), o d of late T. C. Hume; m 1st, 1892, Julia Margaret (d 1930), 3rd d of late Colonel Charles Vereker Hamilton Campbell of Netherplace, Ayrshire; two s one d; 2nd, 1933, Maud Kathleen, yr d of late Capt. S. Y. H. Davenport, and widow of Major W. R. Campbell, DSO, 14th Hussars. [Assumed additional surname of Sinclair, 1894]; died 13 Nov. 1945
JP, DL
CAREER Entered Navy, 1879; in command of Osborne Naval College, 1905–08; of Third Light Cruiser Squadron, 1917–20; Adm.-Superintendent Portsmouth Dockyard, 1920–22; commanded First Battle Squadron Atlantic Fleet, 1922–24; Com.-in-Chief, China Station, 1925–26; The Nore, 1927–30; served European War, battle of Jutland Bank, 1916 (despatches twice KCB, CB, Croix de Guerre, 3rd Class Order of St Vladimir, with swords, Russia); Vice-Adm., 1922; Adm., 1926; First and Principal Naval ADC to the King, 1930; retd list 1930
ADDRESS Dunbeath Castle, Caithness
Footnotes
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 26007. p. 7553. 31 December, 1889.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 8 February, 1890. Issue 32930, col B, pg. 6.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 10 September, 1890. Issue 33113, col E, pg. 7.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 27 July, 1897. Issue 35266, col F, pg. 10.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 27266. p. 310. 15 January, 1901.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 27812. p. 4557. 30 June, 1905.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 28184. p. 7295. 9 October, 1908.
- ↑ Navy List (December, 1914). p. 384.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (March, 1915). p. 6.
- ↑ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29608. p. 5553. 2 June, 1916.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 30037. p. 3955. 27 April, 1917.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1918). p. 5.
- ↑ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31099. p. 106. 1 January, 1919.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 32668. p. 2934. 11 April, 1922.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 33209. p. 6440. 8 October, 1926.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 33608. p. 3233. 23 May, 1930.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 33670. p. 8076. 16 December, 1930.
- ↑ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 33611. p. 3475. 3 June, 1918.
Bibliography
- "Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair" (Obituaries). The Times. Wednesday, 14 November, 1945. Issue 50299, col E, pg. 7.
Service Record
- The National Archives. ADM 196/42.
- 1865 births
- 1945 deaths
- Personalities
- H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1879
- Captains of the Royal Naval College, Osborne
- Captains (D), Second Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy)
- Flag Captains to the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
- Captains of H.M.S. Temeraire (1907)
- Rear-Admirals Commanding, Third Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)
- Rear-Admirals Commanding, Sixth Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)
- Admirals Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard
- Vice-Admirals Commanding, First Battle Squadron (Royal Navy)
- Commanders-in-Chief on the China Station
- Commanders-in-Chief at the Nore
- Royal Navy Admirals
- Royal Navy Flag Officers