Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon The Lord Chatfield of Ditchling PC GCB OM KCMG CVO

Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon The Lord Chatfield of Ditchling PC GCB OM KCMG CVO
Title:Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon The Lord
Surname:Chatfield of Ditchling
Post-nominals:PC GCB OM KCMG CVO
Year elected:1913
Last year on list:1946
Elected as:Captain
MembershipNaval
Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon. Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield, GCB, OM, KCMG, CVO, PC, DL (1873-1967) joined the Navy as a cadet aged 13 and quickly began to specialise in gunnery. He was present as Sir David Beatty's Flag-Captain at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914, at the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915 and at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. After the War he became Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet and then Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, where he developed the Navy's previously neglected night-fighting skills. As First Sea Lord 1933-38 he won arguments that the Royal Navy should have 70 cruisers rather than the 50 cruisers that had been agreed at the Naval Conference of 1930, that the battleship still had an important role to play and that the Fleet Air Arm should be part of the Royal Navy rather than the Royal Air Force. He subsequently served as Minister for Coordination of Defence in the early years of the Second World War. His books include The Navy and Defence (1942) and It Might Happen Again (1947).

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