David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO, PC , was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Mahdist War and then the response to the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. He is remembered for his comment at Jutland that There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today, after two of his ships exploded. Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of the war. He then served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord in which capacity he was involved in negotiating the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 in which it was agreed that the USA, Britain and Japan should set their navies in a ratio of 553, with France and Italy maintaini

Beatty was born into an AngloIrish family at Howbeck Lodge in the parish of Stapeley, near Nantwich, Cheshire, onJanuary 1871. He was the second son of five children born to Captain David Longfield Beatty and Katherine Edith Beatty , both from Ireland David Longfield had been an officer in the Fourth Hussars where he formed a relationship with Katrine, the wife of another officer.

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