Arthur Cavenagh Leveson
Portrait: Francis Dodd, 1917.
Admiral SIR Arthur Cavenagh Leveson, G.C.B., F.R.G.S., Royal Navy (27 January, 1868 – 26 June, 1929) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
Early Life & Career
Leveson was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant dated 27 July, 1887.[1]
Leveson was promoted to the rank of Commander on 1 January, 1899.[2]
Captain
Leveson was promoted to the rank of Captain on 30 June, 1903.[3]
He was appointed a Companion in the Civil Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) on 21 September, 1912.[4]
Leveson was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 1 December, 1913, vice Baker Baker.[5] He was forty-five years and ten months old.
Great War
Oliver later recounted:
Fisher had a hatred of the D.O.D. R.A. Leveson, and when Fisher was yarning in my office, as he often did, and Leveson came in, as soon as he went out Fisher would say he was a 'traitor'. I asked him once what he had against Leveson and he said he could not remember but he knew he had something. Fisher was so set against Leveson that I went to Churchill and told him and asked that he might get a command at sea and Churchill sent him to the 2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron.[6]
Post-War
Leveson was confirmed in the rank of Vice-Admiral on 1 January, 1919.[7]
Leveson was promoted to the rank of Admiral on 1 June, 1922, vice Heath.[8]
He was placed on the Retired List on 22 February, 1928.[9]
Footnotes
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 25875. p. 6204. 16 November, 1888.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 27040. p. 84. 6 January, 1899.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 27572. p. 4187. 3 July, 1903.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 28648. p. 7107. 27 September, 1912.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 28780. p. 9083. 9 December, 1913.
- ↑ Quoted in Mackay. Fisher of Kilverstone. p. 470.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 31104. p. 199. 3 January, 1919.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 32717. p. 4329. 6 June, 1922.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 33362. p. 1493. 2 March, 1928.
Bibliography
- "Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson" (Obituaries). The Times. Friday, 28 June, 1929. Issue 45241, col D, pg. 18.
- Mackay, Ruddock Finlay (1973). Fisher of Kilverstone. London: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198224095.
Service Record
- The National Archives. ADM 196/42.
| Naval Offices | ||
| Preceded by George A. Ballard |
Director of the Operations Division 1914 – 1915 |
Succeeded by Thomas Jackson |
| Preceded by Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot |
Rear-Admiral in the Second Battle Squadron 1915 – 1916 |
Succeeded by William E. Goodenough |
| Preceded by George A. Ballard |
Rear-Admiral Commanding, Second Battle Cruiser Squadron 1916 – 1918 |
Succeeded by Lionel Halsey |
| Preceded by Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas |
Vice-Admiral Commanding, Fifth Battle Squadron 1918 – 1919 |
Succeeded by Command Abolished |
| Preceded by Sir Henry F. Oliver |
Vice-Admiral Commanding, Second Battle Squadron 1919 – 1920 |
Succeeded by Sir William C. M. Nicholson |
| Preceded by Sir Alexander L. Duff |
Commander-in-Chief on the China Station 1922 – 1924 |
Succeeded by Sir Allan F. Everett |
| Preceded by Sir Montague E. Browning |
First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp 1926 – 1928 |
Succeeded by Sir Richard F. Phillimore |
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