Admiral Sir Charles Martin de Bartolomé, KCMG, CB (26 November 1871 – 27 May 1941) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy from 1918 to 1919.
Admiral Sir Charles de Bartolomé | |
|---|---|
 Captain Charles de Bartolomé, 1918 | |
| Born | 26 November 1871 |
| Died | 27 May 1941 (aged 69) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1885–1919 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands | Third Sea Lord (1918–19) HMS Warspite (1916–18) HMS Invincible (1914) HMS Neptune (1911) HMS Indomitable (1909–11) HMS Dreadnought (1908–09) |
| Battles / wars | First World War |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Naval career
editBorn the son of a Castilian physician,[1] De Bartolomé joined the Royal Navy in 1885.[2] He was posted as a lieutenant on the staff of HMS Excellent, shore establishment at Portsmouth, on 1 February 1900.[3] He was promoted to commander on 31 December 1902,[4] and posted to the armoured cruiser HMS Drake on her first commission in January 1903,[5] serving in the Channel Fleet. Promoted to captain in 1905,[6] he was given command of HMS Dreadnought.[7] He served in the First World War and was appointed Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1912 and Naval Secretary in 1914.[8] He became Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1918 in which year he also became Aide-de-Camp to the King; he retired in 1919 and then became Director General of Development at the Ministry of Transport.[2]
Family
editIn 1918 de Bartolomé married Gladys Constance Wilson.[6] Their second son, Stephen Martin de Bartolomé, married Helen Elisabeth Dawn, daughter of Brigadier General Alfred Ernest Irvine, of Under-the-Hill House, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.[9]
References
edit- ^ Sheffield, University of. "Bartolomé Papers – Special Collections – The University Library – The University of Sheffield". www.sheffield.ac.uk.
- ^ a b "King's Collections : Archive Catalogues : Military Archives". kingscollections.org.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36045. London. 22 January 1900. p. 6.
- ^ "No. 27512". The London Gazette. 2 January 1903. p. 4.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36972. London. 8 January 1903. p. 8.
- ^ a b "Royal Navy Flag Officers of the Dreadnought Era 1904–1945: Royal Navy Full Admirals". www.admirals.org.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- ^ "Navy List 1908 Ship D to G". www.worldnavalships.com.
- ^ Senior Royal Navy Appointments Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952, p. 1357, 'Irvine of Under-the-Hill House' pedigree