Frederick Tudor
Sir Frederick Tudor | |
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Order of the Striped Tiger (1st Class) – China |
Third Sea Lord.[1]
Early life and career
Tudor was born in
Stoke Damerel, Devon, the son of Harrington Rogers Jones, of Harwich, and Henrietta Augusta Tudor, of Cork, Ireland. He came first in order of merit out of 42 candidates who passed the examination for naval cadetships in 1875.[2] Jones was promoted to the rank of lieutenant with seniority of 29 March 1884.[3] On 26 December 1890, he adopted his mother's maiden name and changed his surname to Tudor.[1] His brother Henry Morton Tudor Tudor
was also a Royal Navy admiral.
Tudor was promoted to the rank of commander on 31 December 1896.coronation of King Edward VII.[8] He was promoted to captain on 31 December 1902,[9] and subsequently held commands in HMS Challenger and HMS Superb.[10]
After serving as Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance at the Admiralty from 1906 to 1909 he was given command of the Gunnery School at Whale Island in Portsmouth in 1910.[10] He went on to be Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes from 1912 to 1914.[10]
He served in
London Gazette.[11] Tudor later became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1920[12] before retiring in 1922.[10]
Tudor was an uncle of
Larissa Tudor, a woman some people have claimed might have really been Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
.
Notes
- ^ a b "Obituary: Admiral Sir Frederick Tudor". The Times. 15 April 1946. p. 7.
- ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 4 December 1875. Issue 28490, col A, p. 6.
- ^ The London Gazette: no. 25352. p. 2085. 9 May 1884.
- ^ The London Gazette: no. 26809. p. 3. 1 January 1897.
- ^ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 22 January 1897. Issue 35107, col E, p. 11.
- ^ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 2 May 1898. Issue 35505, col B, p. 12.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36666. London. 16 January 1902. p. 7.
- ^ "The Coronation – Naval Review". The Times. No. 36845. London. 13 August 1902. p. 4.
- ^ "No. 27512". The London Gazette. 2 January 1903. p. 3.
- ^ a b c d e Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ Order of the Rising Sun, conferred 1917 -- "No. 30363". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 October 1917. p. 11322.
- ^ Michael Occleshaw, The Romanov Conspiracies: The Romanovs and the House of Windsor, Orion, 1993, p. 176
References
- Occleshaw, Michael, The Romanov Conspiracies: The Romanovs and the House of Windsor, Orion, 1993, ISBN 1-85592-518-4
External links
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