Charles de Bartolomé explained

Honorific Prefix:Admiral
Sir Charles de Bartolomé
Birth Date:26 November 1871
Allegiance:United Kingdom
Branch:Royal Navy
Serviceyears:1885–1919
Rank:Admiral
Commands:Third Sea Lord (1918–19)
(1916–18)
(1914)
(1911)
(1909–11)
(1908–09)
Battles:First World War
Awards:Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companion of the Order of the Bath

Admiral Sir Charles Martin de Bartolomé, (26 November 1871 – 27 May 1941) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy from 1918 to 1919.

Naval career

Born the son of a Castilian physician,[1] De Bartolomé joined the Royal Navy in 1885.[2] He was posted as a lieutenant on the staff of, shore establishment at Portsmouth, on 1 February 1900.[3] He was promoted to commander on 31 December 1902, and posted to the armoured cruiser HMS Drake on her first commission in January 1903,[4] serving in the Channel Fleet. Promoted to captain in 1905,[5] he was given command of .[6] He served in the First World War and was appointed Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1912 and Naval Secretary in 1914.[7] He became Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1918 in which year he also became Aide-de-Camp to the King; he retired in 1919 and then became Director General of Development at the Ministry of Transport.[2]

Family

In 1918 de Bartolomé married Gladys Constance Wilson.[5] Their second son, Stephen Martin de Bartolomé, married Helen Elisabeth Dawn, daughter of Brigadier General Alfred Ernest Irvine, of Under-the-Hill House, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bartolomé Papers – Special Collections – The University Library – The University of Sheffield. University of. Sheffield. www.sheffield.ac.uk.
  2. Web site: King's Collections : Archive Catalogues : Military Archives. kingscollections.org.
  3. Naval & Military intelligence . 22 January 1900 . 6 . 36045.
  4. Naval & Military intelligence . 8 January 1903 . 8 . 36972.
  5. Web site: Royal Navy Flag Officers of the Dreadnought Era 1904–1945: Royal Navy Full Admirals. www.admirals.org.uk. 6 November 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20120304210808/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=31. 4 March 2012. dead.
  6. Web site: Navy List 1908 Ship D to G. www.worldnavalships.com.
  7. http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf Senior Royal Navy Appointments
  8. Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952, p. 1357, 'Irvine of Under-the-Hill House' pedigree