Arthur Leveson

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Admiral

Sir Arthur Leveson

GCB
First World War
Awards
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Mentioned in dispatches
Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st Class (Russia)
Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class
(Japan)

China Station from 10 September 1922 to 22 April 1925.[1]

Naval career

Born on 27 January 1868 at

HMS Britannia on 13 January 1881.[2] He was rated midshipman on 15 January 1883 and sub-lieutenant on 17 January 1887 and promoted lieutenant on 27 July 1887.[2] He was awarded the Beaufort Testimonial and Goodenough Medal in 1888 and qualified in gunnery in 1891.[1][2]

Serving as a Gunnery Lieutenant upon

British Mediterranean Fleet, Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon.[1]

He was transferred to Whale Island at the shore establishment HMS Excellent as a 1st Gunnery Office. He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 July 1887.[3] While as a Brigade Major to the Naval Brigade in London, he participated in the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, for which he received the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Medal. Promoted to commander on 1 January 1899 he became a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[4] Serving as commander under his first commission aboard HMS Canopus he was promoted to captain on 1 July 1903.[1][5]

From August 1903 until February 1905, he served as the Naval Assistant to the Controller of the Navy. While serving as Flag Captain to Admiral

King George V in 1911.[1]

On 27 September 1912, he was made a

Companion of the Order of the Bath in the Civil Division in the first batch of naval officers awarded this honour, and was made naval aide-de-camp to King George V in 1913.[6] He was also a commodore (first class) on the staff of Admiral of the Fleet Sir William May, Umpire-in-Chief during the Naval Manoeuvres which took place during July and August 1913. Promoted to rear admiral on 1 December 1913,[7] and Director of Operations Divisions of the Admiralty War Staff on 1 May 1914.[1]

After the outbreak of the

Order of St. Stanislaus (First Class) with swords and the Order of the Rising Sun (Second Class).[1]

He was appointed the

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 3 June 1927.[9]

Family

Leveson married, at St. Paul's,

Edward Henry Stuart Bligh, 7th Earl of Darnley, and daughter of Francis James Lindesay Blackwood.[10][11] They had one son, Arthur Edmund Leveson (1908–1981), and their eldest granddaughter, Anne Pamela Leveson (born 1946), became Countess of Hopetoun by her marriage in 1968 to the 4th Marquess of Linlithgow, and in 1988 became Countess De La Warr by her second marriage to William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr.[12]

Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson died on 26 June 1929 at Contrexéville, France.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Dodd, Chapt. 8 (Part 2)
  2. ^ a b c d "RN Officer's Service Records—Image details—Leveson, Arthur Cavenagh" (fee usually required to view pdf of full original service record). DocumentsOnline. The National Archives. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
  3. ^ "No. 25875". The London Gazette. 16 November 1888. p. 6204.
  4. ^ "No. 27040". The London Gazette. 6 January 1899. p. 84.
  5. ^ "No. 27572". The London Gazette. 3 July 1903. p. 4187.
  6. ^ "No. 28648". The London Gazette. 27 September 1912. p. 7107.
  7. ^ "No. 28780". The London Gazette. 9 December 1913. p. 9083.
  8. ^ "No. 29751". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 September 1916. p. 9063.
  9. ^ "No. 33280". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 May 1927. p. 3605.
  10. ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 36717. 17 March 1902. p. 1.
  11. ^ "Sitter: Lady Jemima Laveson, formely [sic] Countess of Darnley , née Jemima Adeline Beatrice Blackwood (d 1964)". Lafayette Negative Archive.
  12. ISBN 978-0971196629. Cited in Lundy, Darryl Roger (ed.). "Anne Pamela Leveson". The Peerage. Archived
    from the original on 25 March 2016.
  13. ISBN 978-0971196629
    . Cited in Lundy, Darryl Roger (ed.). "Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson". The Peerage. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2009.

References

Military offices
Preceded by
Sir William Pakenham
Rear Admiral Commanding HM Australian Fleet
1917–1918 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Commander-in-Chief, China Station

1922–1924 		Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp
1926–1928 		Succeeded by
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