Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements The First Sea Lords (1904-1959): An Overview by Malcolm H. Murfett Admiral Sir John (later Baron) Fisher (1904-1910; 1914-1915) by Barry M. Gough Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvett-Wilson, V.C. (1910-1911) by Nicholas A. Lambert Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman-Bridgeman (1911-1912) by Nicholas A. Lambert Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg (1912-1914) by John B. Hattendorf Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson (1915-1916) by Malcolm H. Murfett Admiral Sir John Jellicoe (1916-1917) by Donald M. Schurman Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss (1917-1919) by James Goldrick Admiral David Earl Beatty (1919-1927) by Brian Mc.L. Ranft Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden (1927-1930) and Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field (1930-1933) by Nicholas Tracy Admiral Sir Ernle (later Baron) Chatfield (1933-1938) by Eric J. Grove Admiral Sir Roger R.C. Backhouse (1938-1939) by Malcolm H. Murfett Admiral Sir Dudley Pound (1939-1943) by Robin Brodhurst Admiral Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1943-1946) by Michael Simpson Admiral Sir John H.D. Cunningham (1946-1948) by Malcolm H. Murfett Admiral Lord Fraser of North Cape (1948-1951) by Tom Frame Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor (1951-1955) by Eric J. Grove Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1955-1959) by Geoffrey Till Select Bibliography Index

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About the Author

MALCOLM H. MURFETT completed his undergraduate program at Leeds University and won a scholarship to New College, Oxford, in 1974. While working on his doctorate in Modern History, he was chosen to become the Principal Research Assistant to the Earl of Birkenhead. After spending five years on the officially commissioned, single-volume biography of Sir Winston Churchill, he was appointed Lecturer in Modern History at the National University of Singapore and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1986. Mr. Murfett has also been a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford, a Visiting Professor in Modern British History at York University, Toronto, and a Visiting Fellow at University College, University of New South Wales in Canberra. He became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1990.