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Born 1862; educated at Temple Grove and joined HMS BRITANNIA as a RN Cadet, 1875; served on HMS SULTAN, Mediterranean Fleet, 1878; transferred to HMS BLACK PRINCE, 1878; service on HMS WOLVERINE, Sydney, Australia, 1878-1879; Mid, 1878; served on HMS INCONSTANT, China, Japan and Hong Kong, 1879-1882; Egyptian Campaign, 1882; service onHMS DUKE OF WELLINGTON, Flagship, Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, 1882-1883; Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1883; HMS IRIS, Mediterranean Fleet, 1883-1884; Sub Lt, HMS INVINCIBLE, 1884; served with Naval Bde, Nile Expedition, Sudan, 1884; HMSHIBERNIA, 1884; HMS ALEXANDRA, Mediterranean Fleet, 1884-1886; Lt, 1885; Equerry and Flag Lt to Adm HRH Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh, Mediterranean Fleet, 1886-1889; commanded Torpedo Boat No 42, 1889; served on HMS UNDAUNTED, Devonport,Gibraltar and Malta, 1890; Equerry and Flag Lt to Adm HRH Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh, Commander-in-Chief, Devonport, 1890-1893; served on HMS PEARL, 1893; service on Royal Yacht VICTORIA AND ALBERT and HMS ROYAL GEORGE, Portsmouth,1893-1895; Cdr, 1895; Capt of HMS SKIPJACK, Gibraltar and Malta, and HMS HARRIER, Crete, 1895-1897; served on loan to Egyptian Government for service on the river Nile, 1897-1898; commanded gunboat flotilla, Sudan, 1898; awarded DSO, 1898; landed at Fashoda,Sudan, and delivered message from Maj Gen Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Sirdar of Egyptian Army, to French garrison commander, Maj Jean Baptiste Marchand, Sep 1898; awarded CB, 1898; HMS WILDFIRE, RN Gunnery School, Sheerness, Kent, 1899; Capt, 1899; commanded HMS SPARTAN, Plymouth, 1899; commanded HMS RAINBOW, Devonport, 1900; Capt of HMS WARSPITE, andsubsequently HMS GRAFTON, and Flag Capt to R Adm Andrew Kennedy Bickford, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, 1900-1904; Capt, HMS IMPLACABLE, Mediterranean Fleet, 1905; Commodore of the Royal Yachts, 1905-1909; awarded CVO, 1906; created KCVO, 1908; R Adm, Second in Command, Atlantic Fleet, in HMS ALBEMARLE and HMS LONDON, 1909-1910; commanded HMS MEDINA on voyage to India with HM King George V for the King Emperor's Durbar, Delhi, 1911; created KCIE, 1911; appointed Equerry in Ordinary to HM King George V, 1913; V Adm, 1914; Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, 1915-1935; retired as Adm, 1917; appointed GCVO,1930; retired 1932; died 1947.