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Leben. David Beatty, Porträtstudie von Arthur Stockdale Cope für Naval Officers of World War I, 1920. Nachdem David Beatty 1884 in die Royal Navy eingetreten war, nahm er an der Rückeroberung des Sudan von den Mahdisten (1896–1899) teil.
Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO, PC (17 January 1871 – 12 March 1936) was a Royal Navy officer.
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (born Jan. 17, 1871, Howbeck Lodge, Stapeley, near Nantwich, Cheshire, Eng.—died March 11, 1936, London) was a British admiral of the fleet, who commanded Britain’s battle cruisers in the Battle of Jutland (1916).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Born 17 January 1871 in Stapeley, Cheshire, Great Britain. Died 11 March 1936 in London, Great Britain. David Beatty was a British admiral. He is best known for leading Britain’s Battlecruiser Fleet in its disastrous rendezvous with Germany’s High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland.
Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO, PC, was born at Howbeck Lodge, Stapeley (near Nantwich) on 17th January, 1871. Dr. Munro, a Nantwich doctor, attended at his birth. Beatty was the second son in a family of five. Both his parents were from Ireland.
As a young man David Beatty pursued an extremely swift and successful career in the British Navy. In 1910 he became the youngest admiral since Nelson, and was made commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet during the crucial years of the First World War.
Explore the portrait of David Beatty, 1st Early Beatty and Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (NPG D48624) from all angles Admiral Admiral. Following successful naval campaigns on the Nile and in China he was made naval secretary in 1910.
