Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, First Baronet

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Admiral of the Fleet SIR Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, First Baronet, G.C.B., D.S.O., D.C.L., Royal Navy (10 May, 1870 – 30 May, 1951) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the First World War.

Early Life & Career

He was educated for a year at Burney's at Gosport, and passed into the Britannia on his second attempt, thirty-third out of thirty-four.[1]

On 1 January, 1903 he was promoted to the rank of Commander.[2] On 24 February, 1903 Tyrwhitt married Sarah Angela Mary Margaret, daughter of Matthew Corbally, J.P., of Rathbeale Hall, Swords, County Dublin; they had one son and two daughters.

On 1 December, 1913 Tyrwhitt succeeded Commodore Lambert as Captain (T) in command of the destroyer flotillas of the First Fleet. On 28 April, 1914 he was appointed Commodore, Second Class.[3]

Great War

On 8 January, 1918, Tyrwhitt was appointed Acting Rear-Admiral.[4]

Post-War & Retirement

Tyrwhitt was given the baronetcy of Terschelling and of the City of Oxford on 13 December, 1919, and received a grant from Parliament of £10,000 (over £180,000 in early-2000s terms).[5] He received many foreign decorations and an honorary degree of D.C.L. from Oxford (1919).

Tyrwhitt died at Ellenden, Sandhurst, Kent, on 30 May, 1951, and was succeeded as second baronet by his son, St. John Reginald Joseph (1905–1961), who also entered the Royal Navy, becoming Second Sea Lord in 1959. His elder daughter, Mary Tyrwhitt, retired as director of the Women's Royal Army Corps in 1950. Lady Tyrwhitt died on 8 June, 1953 at Twyford, Berkshire.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Temple Patterson. Tyrwhitt of the Harwhich Force. p. 5.
  2. ↑ London Gazette: no. 27512. p. 4. 2 January, 1903.
  3. ↑ Tyrwhitt Service Record. p. 125.
  4. ↑ Tyrwhitt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. p. 125.
  5. ↑ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. III. p. 3968.

Bibliography

  • "Adm. of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt" (Obituaries). The Times. Thursday, 31 May, 1951. Issue 52015, col G, pg. 8.
  • "Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt" (Obituaries). The Times. Wednesday, 27 June, 1951. Issue 52038, col F, pg. 8.
  • Temple Patterson, Alfred (1973). Tyrwhitt of the Harwich Force: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 0-356-04530-7.

Service Record


Naval Offices
Preceded by
Sir John F. E. Green 		Commanding Officer, Coast of Scotland and Admiral Superintendent of Rosyth Dockyard
1923 – 1925 		Succeeded by
Sir Walter H. Cowan
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