Ernest George Pretyman

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Ernest George Pretyman, P.C. (13 November, 1859 – 26 November, 1931) was a Unionist politician who held the office of Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1900 to 1903, and again from 1916 to 1919, and as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Board of Admiralty from 1903 to 1905.

Life & Career

Said Norman MacLeod, one time Private Secretary to the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, "Pretyman was not the most congenial of my chiefs, but he was certainly the ablest and it was sheer bad luck that he never reached Cabinet rank."

Pretyman was made Chairman of the Admiralty Reconstruction Committee by Sir Eric Geddes.

Bibliography

• "Mr. E. G. Pretyman" (Obituaries). The Times. Friday, 27 November, 1931. Issue 45991, col E, p. 14.

See Also

Naval Appointments
Preceded by The Hon. Austen Chamberlain	Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1900 – 1903	Succeeded by The Hon. Arthur H. Lee
Preceded by The Hon. Hugh O. Arnold-Forster	Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Board of Admiralty 1903 – 1905	Succeeded by The Rt. Hon. Edmund Robertson
Preceded by The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lytton	Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1916 – 1919	Succeeded by The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lytton