George Chetwode
{{Short description|Royal Navy officer (1877–1957)}}
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| name = George Chetwode
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| birth_date =10 December 1877
| death_date ={{death-date and age|11 March 1957|10 December 1877}}
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| rank = Admiral
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Admiral Sir George Knightley Chetwode, KCB, CBE (10 December 1877 – 11 March 1957){{cite news |title=Adml. Sir George Chetwode |newspaper=The Times |location=London, England |date=12 March 1957 |page=10 |issue=53787}} was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.
Naval career
Born the son of Sir George Chetwode, 6th Baronet,[http://thepeerage.com/p4833.htm#i48322The Peerage.com] Chetwode joined the Royal Navy and was appointed a Lieutenant in December 1899. He was appointed temporary to the gunboat HMS Esk, in lieu of a sub-lieutenant, on 31 December 1899.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=2 February 1900 |page=10 |issue=36055}} The following year he served on the China Station during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.
He served in World War I taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and commanding destroyers for the rest of the War.[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/CHETWODE1.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives] He was appointed Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence in 1923 and then given command of the battleship {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|6}} followed by the battleship HMS Warspite. He was made Naval Secretary in 1929 and Commander of the 1st Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1932. His last appointment was as Admiral commanding the reserves in 1933 before he retired in 1936.[http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19360820.2.69.aspx Admiral Chetwode retires] The Straits Times, 20 August 1936
Family
In 1908 he married Alice Clara Vaughan-Lee; they had two sons, including the British Army officer and cricketer George Chetwode. In 1939 he married Elizabeth Jane Taylor.
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