Sir Allan Everett | |
Birth Name: | Allan Frederic Everett |
Birth Date: | 22 February 1868 |
Death Place: | London, England |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Branch: | Royal Navy |
Serviceyears: | 1884–1926 |
Rank: | Admiral |
Commands: | China Station (1924–25) Chief of the Australian Naval Staff (1921–23) 8th Light Cruiser Squadron (1919–21) 4th Light Cruiser Squadron (1918–19) (1911–13) (1911) (1910–11) (1908–10) (1904–06) (1904) |
Battles: | First World War |
Awards: | Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Admiral Sir Allan Frederic Everett (22 February 1868 – 22 January 1938) was a Royal Navy officer who served as First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff from 1921 to 1923.
Born the fourth son of Colonel John Frederic Everett,[1] Everett joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1884.[2] He became Captain of the Fleet for the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet in 1913 and at the start of the First World War found himself on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet.[1] He was made Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1915 and Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1916.[1] He became Naval Secretary later that year and served in that role during the closing stages of the war.[3] He was given command of the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron in October 1918.[4] After the war he was given command of the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic,[1] before becoming First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff in 1921[5] and then Commander-in-Chief, China Station in November 1924.[6] He suffered a breakdown in April 1925 and was relieved of his command shortly thereafter.[7] He retired in 1926.[2]
He died in London in January 1938.[8]
In 1899 he married Michaelangela Katherine Carr.[2]
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