Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1920. OUR NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2119, 24 April 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1920. OUR NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

ADMIRAL of llie Fleet Viscount Jellicoe, onr new Governor-General-eleel, is in liis tils! year, having been born - on December sth, 1859. He inherited the sea tradition from his father, the late Captain J. IL Jelliroe, formerly commodore of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, while Admiral Phillip Patton,. Second Sea Lord-a I tin 1 time of Trafalgar, was his great grandfather. Entering the Navy in 1872, lie served as a lieutenant on the Aginconai (.luring the Egyptian war. Turning Ins attention to the gunnery branch, in 1882. be came under (he iniiucnce of Lord Fisher, then captain of the Gunnery School, under whom lie served for a large part of hs litter career. As early as 1888 Lord Fisher, then direct or of naval ordnance, gave the young lieutenant his first appointment at the Admiralty as an assistant-director. Promoted to commander in 1891, Jellicoe was appointed 1«> 'he Wmloria, and was shipwrecked iu (he collision which destroyed (hat vessel in 1893. As a captain he was Sir Edward Seymour’s chief of stall in China in .1900, Avhere he was wounded. and earned the C.B. for Ins services. After a period as naval assistant to I lie Controller of the Navv, he commanded the cruiser Drake, and in 1905 was appointed director of naval ordnance, serving in this capacity until alter Ins promotion to rear-admiral in February, 1907. For the past 15 years he has laid alternate periods in liigli command alloat and administrative posts at the Admiralty. He was Rear-Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet, 1907-8; Third Sea Lord, 1908-10; Vice-Admiral Commanding the Second Division of the Home Fleets,-1910-12, and Second Sea Lord, 1912-14. His selection to he Com-mander-in-Chief was published in July, 1914, but was not to have taken effect until the end' of the year. When war was imminent, 'however, he was sent to sea at once, and his l!ag was hoisted on the Iron Duke on August 4th, 1914. Admiral Jelheoe held the supreme command afloat until November 2911 i, 1910, when lie was appointed First Sea Lord. Admiral, Sir David Beatty, commanding the First Battle Squadron, succeeded him. In .May, 1917, he was further made Chief of the Naval Staff, and in January, 1918, he was raised to the peerage. In recognition of their distinguished services during the war, Admiral Jellicoe and Admiral Beatty were-last year appointed Admirals of the Fleet, the highest rank in i.he navy, the appointments dating from April 3rd, 1919. Lord Jellicoe had already set out on his overseas naval mission, and was the first admiral to 11 y his Hag south of the line. Having been appointed to advise the Dominion Governments on questions of naval defence, lie left Portsmouth in HALS. New Zealand in March, 1919, and after visiting Australia, arrived at Wellington in August. He visjled Auckland at the end 6f September. and then proceeded to Suva and Vancouver. Proceeding overland, he visited Ottawa and Washington, and then proceeded to Havana to rejoin (ho New Zealand. His tour, which was to have included

South A morion and South Africa, was suddenly terminated, the Admiralty recalling- him to England. Lord Jolliooe reached Portsmouth in the New Zealand on February 3rd, and shortly afterwards gave a personal account of his mission to His Majesty the King. In 1902 Lord Jellicoe married Flox-ence Gwendoline, daughter of Sir Charles Cay/.er, first baronet, a wellknown ship-owner. They have one son —the Hon. George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, born on April 4lh, 1918 —and four daughters. The King was sponsor at the christening of the heir, and gold cups were presented by His Majesty and by the Navy. Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, who is now Commander-in-CS)ief of the Home and Atlantic Fleet, married Lady Jollicoe’s sister. In the first two years of the warlie was Lord Jellicoe's chief of staff.