Sir Richard Poore, 4th Baronet

Last updated • 2 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Admiral

Sir Richard Poore

Bt , KCB , CVO , JP , DL
Admiral Sir Richard Poore, Bt.webp
Born7 July 1853
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
Died8 December 1930(1930-12-08) (aged 77)
Vevey, Switzerland
Allegiance Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Service/branchNaval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg  Royal Navy
Years of service1866–1917
Rank Admiral
Commands held HMS Hawke
HMS Illustrious
Australia Station
Nore Command
Battles/wars Mahdist War
World War I
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur
Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy

Admiral Sir Richard Poore, 4th Baronet KCB , CVO , JP , DL (7 July 1853 – 8 December 1930) [1] was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore. [2]

Contents

Poore served in the Naval Brigade as part of the Perak expedition to Malaya in 1875. [3] He also took part in the Bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 [3] and the unsuccessful Nile Expedition to Khartoum to relieve General Gordon in 1884. [3] He became captain of HMS Hawke in 1897 and in that capacity was involved in operations that led to the pacification of Crete later that year. [4] In April 1898 he was appointed in command of the battleship HMS Illustrious, also serving in the Mediterranean. [5]

On 9 March 1900 he was appointed flag captain to HMS Vivid, flagship and yacht to the port admiral at Devonport, for command of the RN Barracks. [6] In June 1901, he was appointed a Naval Aide de Camp to King Edward VII. [7] He transferred to a more operative command in December 1902, when he was appointed Captain of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Jupiter, serving in the Channel Fleet. [8]

He became Rear Admiral for the Mediterranean and Channel Fleet in 1904 and Commander-in-Chief of the Australia Station in 1908. [3] Finally he became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1911, serving in that post into World War I. [3] He retired in 1917. [3] On 19 July 1920, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire. [9]

Honours and awards

Personal life

In 1885, he married Ida Margaret Graves, daughter of Rt Rev Charles Graves, sister of Alfred Perceval Graves, and aunt of poet Robert Graves. They had one son: [2]

He lived at the East End Manor in Durrington in Wiltshire. [13]

He died in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1930. After his death, the baronetcy was inherited by his nephew Edward Poore (1894–1938), son of his younger brother, Herbert. [2] His wife died in Switzerland on 5 February 1941. [14] She was the author of a number of books. [15] [16]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Doveton Sturdee</span> British Royal Navy officer

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer. After training as a torpedo officer, he commanded two different cruisers and then three different battleships before becoming commander of the 1st Battle Squadron of the Home Fleet. He went on to command the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and then the 2nd Cruiser Squadron.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">George Callaghan</span> Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1852-1920)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Astley Callaghan was an officer in the Royal Navy. During the Boxer Rebellion he served as commander of a naval brigade sent ashore to form an element of a larger expedition under Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Gaselee: the expedition entered Peking and rescued the legations which had been held hostage there. He came to prominence again when, as Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet, he assisted with the provision of aid to survivors of the Messina earthquake, which had caused the loss of circa 123,000 lives.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield</span> Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1873–1967)

Admiral of the Fleet Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield, was a Royal Navy officer. During the First World War he was present as Sir David Beatty's Flag-Captain at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914, at the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915 and at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. After the war he became Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet and then Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet before serving as First Sea Lord in the mid-1930s in which role he won arguments that the Royal Navy should have 70 cruisers rather than the 50 cruisers that had been agreed at the Naval Conference of 1930, that the battleship still had an important role to play despite the development of the bomber and that the Fleet Air Arm should be part of the Royal Navy rather than the Royal Air Force. He subsequently served as Minister for Coordination of Defence in the early years of the Second World War.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Saunders Dundas</span>

Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, was a Royal Navy officer. As a captain, he took part in the capture of the Bogue forts in January 1841, during the First Opium War. He was appointed to the command of the Fleet in the Baltic Sea, in succession to Sir Charles Napier, in February 1855 and led the naval support during the latter stages of the Crimean War, enforcing a strict blockade and carrying out the bombardment of Sveaborg in August 1855. He was appointed First Naval Lord in the first Palmerston ministry in November 1857 and then, after stepping down to be Second Naval Lord during the second Derby–Disraeli ministry, he stepped up again to become First Naval Lord in the second Palmerston ministry in June 1859 remaining in office until his death. The Prime-Minister described Dundas as "a most distinguished officer".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reginald Tyrwhitt</span> Royal Navy officer (1870–1951)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, was a Royal Navy officer. During the First World War he served as commander of the Harwich Force. He led a supporting naval force of 31 destroyers and two cruisers at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914, in which action the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron under Sir David Beatty sank three German cruisers and one German destroyer with minimal loss of allied warships. Tyrwhitt also led the British naval forces during the Cuxhaven Raid in December 1914, when British seaplanes destroyed German Zeppelin airships and at the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, in which action Tyrwhitt again supported Beatty's powerful battlecruiser squadron.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Percy Noble (Royal Navy officer)</span> Royal Navy Admiral (1880-1955)

Admiral Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble, GBE, KCB, CVO was a Royal Navy officer who served in both World Wars.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Somerset Gough-Calthorpe</span>

Admiral of the Fleet The Honourable Sir Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, sometimes known as Sir Somerset Calthorpe, was a Royal Navy officer and a member of the Gough-Calthorpe family. After serving as a junior officer during the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War, he became naval attaché observing the actions of the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War and then went on to command an armoured cruiser and then a battleship during the early years of the 20th century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Assheton Curzon-Howe</span> British naval officer (1850–1911)

Admiral Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe was a British naval officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from 1908 to 1910.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cecil Burney</span> Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1858–1929)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney, 1st Baronet, was a Royal Navy officer. After seeing action as a junior office in naval brigades during both the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Mahdist War, he commanded a cruiser in operational service during the Second Boer War. As a flag officer he commanded the Plymouth Division of the Home Fleet, the 5th Cruiser Squadron, the Atlantic Fleet and then the 3rd Battle Squadron.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stanley Colville</span> Royal Navy Admiral (1861–1939)

Admiral Sir Stanley Cecil James Colville, was a senior Royal Navy officer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gerard Noel (Royal Navy officer)</span> Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1845-1918)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Gerard Henry Uctred Noel, was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he commanded a naval brigade which took part in the capture of Kumasi in February 1874 during the Second Anglo-Ashanti War.

Admiral Sir Eric John Arthur Fullerton was a Royal Navy officer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patrick Brind</span> Royal Navy admiral (1892–1963)

Admiral Sir Eric James Patrick Brind, was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as the first Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1951 to 1953.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Frederick Hotham</span> Royal Navy officer

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Frederick Hotham was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, he was a member of the naval brigade that fought the Māori people at the Battle of Rangiriri during the invasion of the Waikato and was also present at the Battle of Gate Pā during the Tauranga Campaign. He later took part in the bombardment of Alexandria during the Anglo-Egyptian War and then went ashore as Chief of Staff of the naval brigade, formed under Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour, which was dispatched to restore the authority of Khedive Tewfik Pasha in the face of Ahmed ‘Urabi's nationalist uprising against the administration.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frederick Hamilton (Royal Navy officer)</span> Royal Navy Admiral (1856–1917)

Admiral Sir Frederick Tower Hamilton was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nathaniel Bowden-Smith</span> Royal Navy officer (1838–1921)

Admiral Sir Nathaniel Bowden-Smith was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alfred Winsloe</span>

Admiral Sir Alfred Leigh Winsloe, was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hugh Watson</span>

Admiral Sir Hugh Dudley Richards Watson was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Lowry (Royal Navy officer)</span>

Admiral Sir Robert Swinburne Lowry was a Royal Navy officer who became Admiral Commanding on the Coast of Scotland.

Admiral Sir Arthur Murray Farquhar, was a British Royal Navy officer in the years before the First World War.

References

  1. ↑ "Admiral Sir Richard Poore – Distinguished Service at Home and Abroad". Obituaries. The Times. No. 45693. London. 11 December 1930. col B, p. 10.
  2. 1 2 3 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3173. ISBN   0-9711966-2-1.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sir Richard Poore Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  4. ↑ HMS Hawke Battleships
  5. ↑ Poore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM196/39. f. 1049.
  6. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36060. London. 8 February 1900. p. 10.
  7. ↑ "No. 27350". The London Gazette . 30 August 1901. p. 5738.
  8. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36923. London. 12 November 1902. p. 8.
  9. ↑ "No. 31991". The London Gazette . 23 July 1920. p. 7776.
  10. ↑ "No. 27826". The London Gazette . 11 August 1905. p. 5532.
  11. ↑ "No. 28263". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1909. p. 4853.
  12. 1 2 "No. 31553". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 September 1919. p. 11582.
  13. ↑ Peter James Jellicoe Hargrave Archived 11 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ The Times, 10 February 1941, p. 7
  15. ↑ Graves, Ida Margaret (1917), An admiral's wife in the making, 1860-1903
  16. ↑ Graves, Ida Margaret (1916), Recollections of an admiral's wife, 1903-1916
Military offices
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station
1908–1910		Succeeded by
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
1911–1915		Succeeded by
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baronet
(of Rushall)
1893–1930		Succeeded by
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.