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Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO, DL, SGM (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War .
John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe was a British admiral of the fleet who commanded at the crucial Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916) during World War I. The son of a captain in the mercantile marine, Jellicoe was educated at Rottingdean and entered the Royal Navy as a naval cadet in 1872.
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Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe. Earl Jellicoe is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.It was created, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Brocas, of Southampton in the County of Southampton, on 29 June 1925 for Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe, 1st Viscount Jellicoe, on his return from being Governor-General of New Zealand, with remainder to the heirs male ...
Mar 17, 2017 · Born December 5, 1859, John Jellicoe was the son of Captain John H. Jellicoe of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and his wife Lucy H. Jellicoe. Initially educated at Field House School in Rottingdean, Jellicoe elected to pursue a career in the Royal Navy in 1872. Appointed a cadet, he reported to the training ship HMS Britannia at Dartmouth.
Jun 27, 2022 · Admiral of the Fleet THE RIGHT HONOURABLE John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O. (5 December, 1859 – 20 November, 1935) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet from 1914 to 1916, achieving a strategic victory over the German High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland on ...
John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935) is buried in St Paul's Cathedral but his stall plate as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath can be seen in the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey.
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views 3,776,285 updated. John Rushworth Jellicoe. The English admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935), was commander in chief of the British Grand Fleet during the first half of World War I. John Rushworth Jellicoe. Born on Dec. 5, 1859, at Southampton, John Jellicoe was the heir to a long naval tradition.
