Английская Википедия:Frederick Hamilton (Royal Navy officer)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox military person Admiral Sir Frederick Tower Hamilton Шаблон:Postnominals (8 March 1856 – 4 October 1917) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.
Hamilton joined the Royal Navy in 1869[1] as a cadet on the training ship Britannia.[2] He fought in Naval Brigade in the Zulu War in 1879, for which service he was mentioned in despatches.[1] After promotion to Lieutenant he specialised into the Torpedo Branch and in 1884 after training was appointed a staff officer at the Torpedo Schoolship HMS Vernon.[2] In 1892 he was promoted to commander and serving aboard the battleship HMS Hood. He was appointed in command of the torpedo school ship HMS Defiance at Devonport on 1 November 1897,[3] promoted to captain on 1 January 1898,[4] and re-appointed in command of the Defiance the same day.[5] On 18 March 1902 he was appointed flag captain of the battleship HMS Bulwark, which in May was to become flagship of Admiral Sir Compton Domvile, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet.[6] Hamilton was Aide-de-Camp to the King between 1906 and 1907.[7]
At the outset of the First World War Hamilton was Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel and was promoted to full admiral in June 1916.[8] He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth later that year[9] but died suddenly from a heart attack in 1917 and is buried in Fife.[10]
He lived at Anmer Hall near King's Lynn in Norfolk.[7]
Honours and awards
- 21 November 1903 – During the visit of the King to Malta Captain Frederick Tower Hamilton, Royal Navy, Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Malta was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.[11]
- 9 November 1908 – Rear-Admiral Frederick Tower Hamilton, MVO, is promoted to be a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order[12]
- 1 January 1913 – Vice-Admiral Frederick Tower Hamilton, CVO, is appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath[13]
Family
Hamilton married Maria Walpole Keppel, the daughter of Admiral Sir Henry Keppel; they went on to have two sons (including Admiral Sir Louis Keppel Hamilton) and two daughters.[7]
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