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David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, DSC (22 February 1905 – 10 June 1972), styled Viscount Borodale from 1919 to 1936, was a Royal Navy officer and British Conservative Party politician.
12 de fev. de 2022 · Beatty, David Field (1905-72), 2nd Earl Beatty. Elder son of Adm. of the Fleet, the Rt. Hon. David Richard Beatty (1871-1936), 1st Earl Beatty, and his wife Ethel, only daughter of Marshall Field of Chicago (USA) and formerly wife of Arthur Magie Tree, born 22 February 1905.
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David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, DSC, (22 February 1905 – 10 June 1972), styled Viscount Borodale from 1919 to 1936, was a British Conservative Party politician. Beatty was a son of Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Earl Beatty and his wife Ethel, daughter of the American businessman Marshall...
David Beatty was one of the most senior British admirals during the First World War, winning fame as the commander of the battlecruiser squadron from 1913 to 1916, before serving as commander in chief of the Grand Fleet and First Sea Lord. He was a member of an army family – his father and three brothers all joined the army, with roots in Wexford.
The Earl Beatty is remembered for his comment during the Battle of Jutland that “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today”, after two of his ships exploded! He later became Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, and received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of the First World War.
17 de mar. de 2017 · Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty led the British Grand Fleet during the second half of World War I. A rising star in the Royal Navy, he was youngest admiral since Horatio Nelson. A key player in World War I, he commanded British forces at the Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank, as well as led the battlecruisers at Jutland.
The papers is an extensive collection covering the career as well as his private life of the second Earl Beatty. When the collection came to the museum the naval administrative papers were together in their original files, while his semi-official, private and family correspondence was still in rough sequence.
