NEW GOVERNORGENERAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 173, 17 April 1920, Page 6

NEW GOVERNORGENERAL

AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF DOMINION

Viscount jellicqe appointed

His Excellency the Governor-General announces that His Majesty the King lias been graciously pleased to appoint Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe of Scana, G.C.8., O.M;, G.C.V10., to sue coed the Earl.of Liverpool as GovernorGeneral and Commander-in-Chief'of''the Dominion of New Zealand. • • Admiral of tho Elect Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa'Flow, who was born in 1859, is the son of the late Captain John H. Jellicoe, of Eyde, Isle of Wight, who died in September, 1914. He entered the Navy in- 1872, and served as lieutenant of the Agincourt during the Egvptian .Wot.' 1882., He was on board the Victoria, the 'flagship '.of Vice-Admiral Sir .George Tryon, when she was'sunk off Tripoli in collision with the Camperdown in 1893. From 1901 to 1903 he was Naval Assistant to the Controller, and from 1905 to 1907 Director of Naval Ordnance. He received the K.0.V.0. in August, 1907. Lord Jellicoe attained flng' Tank, in 190.7, in which'year he was appointed second in. command of the Atlantic Fleet, a post he held for a year. After serving on shore for two years as Third Sea ■Lord and Controller of tho Navy, he again went afloat in command of-the Atlantic Fleet.. He was promoted Viceadmiral in 1911. in which -••inv he was given the command of the Second ■ .Divi- } sion of the Home Fleet. In the following year 'he returned' to Whitehall as Second Sea Lord. On the outbreak of war he was specially selected to take command of the Grand Fleet, which he led at the" battle of Jutland in May, 1910. He was recalled to the Admiralty as First Sea Lord in December of the same year. In February, 1915, he was awarded the G.C.B. "in recognition of his meritorious services during the war," and in the.honours list for the battle of Jutland he waS appointed to the Order of Merit. On bis retirement from the office of First Sea Lord in December, 1917, he received' a peerage, taking the vitlo' of Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa Flow. Last year Lord Jellicoe was promoted to the rank, of Admiral of flie Fleet. In-' 1902 he married Miss Florence Gwendoline Cayzer. daughter of Sir Charles William Cayzer. and has one son and four daughters, ffis heir is his son, the Hon. George Jellicoe, who was born on April 4, 1918. , •.