12 Facts About Somerset Gough-Calthorpe

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS Britannia on 15 January 1878.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe became torpedo officer in the cruiser HMS St George on the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station in October 1894 and saw action with naval brigades during the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe went on to be commanding officer of the cruiser HMS Pandora during propeller trials at Portsmouth in July 1901, and, having been promoted to captain on 1 January 1902 and having attended a course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, he became naval attache observing the actions of the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe became commanding officer of the armoured cruiser HMS Roxburgh in November 1905 and then, having been appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order on 25 September 1906, he became commanding officer of the battleship HMS Hindustan in December 1907.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe then became Captain of the Fleet for the Home Fleet in the battleship HMS Dreadnought in December 1909.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe was advanced to Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on 2 August 1910.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe became commander of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, with his flag in the armoured cruiser HMS Shannon, in July 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe went on to sign the Armistice of Mudros on behalf of all the Allies on 30 October 1918, by which the Ottoman Empire accepted defeat and ceased hostilities.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe became British Commissioner in the Ottoman Empire at the end of the War during a time of considerable political instability associated with the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire and the allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe became naval representative to the Permanent Armaments Commission of the League of Nations in July 1920.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 3 June 1922, appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the Isle of Wight on 14 February 1924 and appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King on 31 July 1924.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe married at St George's, Hanover Square, London on 27 February 1900 Effie Dunsmuir, daughter of Hon.