Hugh Tyrwhitt

Captain The Hon. Hugh Tyrwhitt (14 July 1856 – 26 October 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary. He was the father of noted aesthete and composer Lord Berners.[1]

Hugh Tyrwhitt
Born14 July 1856
Died26 October 1907 (1907-10-27) (aged 51)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
RankCaptain
Commands heldHMS Renown (1900-02)
Battles/warsMahdist War

Tyrwhitt was born in 1856, the second surviving son of Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, 3rd Baronet and Harriet Wilson, 12th Baroness Berners. His elder brother Raymond Tyrwhitt (1855–1918) succeeded as 13th Baron Berners, and his sister Hon. Arden Mary Tyrwhitt (1860–1922) was the wife of Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, Private Secretary to King Edward VII.[2]

He was commissioned a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy in June 1876, and promoted to lieutenant in February 1881. He served as flag lieutenant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, served with the Naval Brigade in Sudan and took part in the Nile Expedition to relieve General Charles Gordon in 1884.[3] Promotion to commander followed in June 1893, and to captain in January 1889. On 19 March 1900 he was appointed in command of the battleship HMS Renown, flag ship to Admiral Sir John Fisher, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet.[4] Fisher resigned from this position in June 1902 to become Second Sea Lord, and Tyrwhitt was succeeded as captain on the Renown by Arthur Murray Farquhar. Following Fisher′s recommendation,[5] Tyrwhitt was on 9 October that year appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty.[6][7] In 1905 he was again given command of the battleship HMS Renown and escorted the Duke and Duchess of York to India.[8] He died two years later.[8]

References
  1. Jones, p. 1
  2. "Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys". The Peerage. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  3. Captain Tyrwhitt Liverpool Herald, 4 July 1904
  4. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36090). London. 15 March 1900. p. 7.
  5. On the Periphery of the Russo-Japanese War Part I by Ian Nish
  6. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36885). London. 29 September 1902. p. 8.
  7. Senior Royal Navy Appointments Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Obituary: Captain Tyrwhitt, R.N., The Times, 1 November 1907

Sources
  • Jones, Bryony (2 January 2003). The Music of Lord Berners (1883-1950): The Versatile Peer (Illustrated ed.). Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0754608523.
Military offices
Preceded by
Wilmot Fawkes		 Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty
1902–1905		 Succeeded by
Hugh Evan-Thomas
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