Rear-Admiral Frederick Shirley Litchfield-Speer, CMG, DSO, Royal Navy (24 March 1874 – 30 May 1922)
Litchfield-Speer was promoted to Lieutenant on 4 August 1895, and to Commander on 1 January 1895 (something odd in those dates!)
Litchfield was appointed to President, additional, on 7 January 1905, as an Assistant to DNO.
On 11 January 1910, Litchfield was appointed to Vernon.
He was promoted to Captain on 22 June 1911.
On 1 January 1912, Litchfield was appointed to President for service on the staff of the Inspector of Target Practice.
On 11 December 1912, he was appointed in command of the armoured cruiser Antrim.
Litchfield was appointed in command of H.M.S. Shannon as Flag Captain to Charles E. Madden on 19 December 1913, but this appointment was cancelled.
On 1 August 1914, he was appointed in command of the Caronia, a passenger liner commissioned into Royal Navy service as an armed merchant cruiser.
He was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on 3 June 1916.
He was appointed in command of Agamemnon on 25 September 1918.
Litchfield-Speer was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 5 April 1922.
He was placed on the Retired List at his own request on 6 April.
He died aged forty-nine on 30 May on the way to Redhill Hospital, Reigate, having fallen ill after going to the Derby with his wife and Captain Willis of the Admiralty. The cause of death was stated at the the inquest to be "the acute inflammatory condition of the lungs."