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David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

1871 - 1936

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Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, (17 January 1871 – 12 March 1936) was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Mahdist War and then the response to the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded the Battle Cruiser Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. He is remembered for his comment at Jutland that "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today", after two of them exploded. Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty is the 1,120th most popular military personnel (up from 1,212th in 2019), the 2,210th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,073rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 1,120 out of 2,058. Before him are Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Yitzhak Sadeh, Hermann Breith, Nureddin Pasha, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, and Otto Weddigen. After him are Riad al-Asaad, Ludwig von Reuter, Nicholas, Count of Salm, Andrei Shkuro, Erwin Jaenecke, and August Karl von Goeben.

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Among people born in 1871, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 73. Before him are Claus Schilling, Leonidas Pyrgos, Wilhelm von Mirbach, Nándor Dáni, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, and Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich. After him are Luigi Sturzo, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, John Millington Synge, Thekla Resvoll, Oscar Wisting, and Efstathios Chorafas. Among people deceased in 1936, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 93. Before him are Meir Dizengoff, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, José Calvo Sotelo, Georgios Kondylis, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, and Dezső Kosztolányi. After him are Nahum Sokolow, Josep Sunyol, Alexander Guchkov, Louise Bryant, Oskar Barnack, and Oscar Wisting.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 2,210 out of 8,785. Before him are James Finlayson (1887), Mike Leigh (1943), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Steve Jones (1955), Liam Gallagher (1972), and Mary Dyer (1611). After him are Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), Geri Halliwell (1972), William Jones (1675), John Stevens Henslow (1796), David Platt (1966), and David Edward Hughes (1831).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 49. Before him are Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), Richard Dannatt (1950), James Wolfe (1727), Robert Blake (1599), Arthur Rostron (1869), and Horatio Gates (1727). After him are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), Arthur Percival (1887), Robert Maynard (1684), David Stirling (1915), and John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885).

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