Captain The Hon. Hugh Tyrwhitt (14 July 1856 – 26 October 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty . He was the father of noted aesthete and composer Lord Berners .[ 1]
Early life
Tyrwhitt was born in 1856, the second surviving son of Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, 3rd Baronet (son of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt-Jones, 2nd Baronet ) and Harriet Tyrwhitt, 12th Baroness Berners . His elder brother Raymond Tyrwhitt succeeded as 13th Baron Berners , and his sister Hon. Arden Mary Tyrwhitt was the wife of Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys , Private Secretary to King Edward VII .[ 2]
Career
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 Renown , flag ship to Admiral Sir John Fisher , Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet .[ 4] Fisher hauled down his flag in June 1902 to become Second Naval Lord , and Tyrwhitt was succeeded as captain on the Renown by Arthur Farquhar . Following Fisher's recommendation,[ 5] Tyrwhitt was on 9 October that year appointed Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty .[ 6] [ 7] In 1905 he was again given command of the Renown and escorted the Duke and Duchess of York to India .[ 8] He died two years later.[ 8]
Personal life
On 10 August 1882, Tyrwhitt was married to Julia Mary Foster (d. 1931), a daughter of William Orme Foster , MP for South Staffordshire , and the former Isabella Grazebrook. Together, they were the parents of:
Tyrwhitt died on 26 October 1907.[ 8]
References
^ Jones, p. 1
^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
^ Captain Tyrwhitt Liverpool Herald, 4 July 1904
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times . No. 36090. London. 15 March 1900. p. 7.
^ On the Periphery of the Russo-Japanese War Part I by Ian Nish
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times . No. 36885. London. 29 September 1902. p. 8.
^ Senior Royal Navy Appointments Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ a b c Obituary: Captain Tyrwhitt, R.N., The Times, 1 November 1907
^ "BERNERS, 66, ARTIST, AUTHOR, COMPOSER" . The New York Times . 20 April 1950. p. 29. Retrieved 6 December 2023 .
Sources
Jones, Bryony (2 January 2003). The Music of Lord Berners (1883-1950): The Versatile Peer (Illustrated ed.). Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0754608523 .