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Old Photograph Earl Jellicoe Orkney Islands Scotland
Old photograph of Earl Jellicoe outside a house by Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO, SGM, born 5 December 1859, died 20 November 1935, was a Royal Navy officer. In July 1902 Jellicoe married Gwendoline Cayzer, daughter of the shipping magnate Sir Charles Cayzer; they had a son and five daughters. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during World War I. His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial: he made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port, at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain, but at the time the British public were disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a victory on the scale of the Battle of Trafalgar. Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord, overseeing the expansion of the Naval Staff at the Admiralty and the introduction of convoy, but was removed at the end of 1917. Jellicoe was created Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa Flow on 7 March 1918. He also served as the Governor-General of New Zealand in the early 1920s.
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