Sir Lewis Clinton-Baker | |
Birth Date: | 16 March 1866 |
Rank: | Admiral |
Serviceyears: | 1879–1927 |
Commands: | HMS Gibraltar HMS Berwick HMS Hercules HMS Benbow East Indies Station |
Battles: | Mahdist War Second Boer War World War I |
Awards: | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
Admiral Sir Lewis Clinton-Baker (16 March 1866 – 12 December 1939) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.
Clinton-Baker joined the Royal Navy in 1879[1] He took part in the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 and went to command HMS Gibraltar during the Second Boer War.[1] He was promoted to Commander on 1 January 1901 and commanded HMS Berwick from 1908.[2]
He served in World War I as Captain of HMS Hercules, which he commanded at the Battle of Jutland in 1916,[3] and then as Captain of HMS Benbow from later that year; he then took responsibility for laying a mine barrage across the North Sea[1] from a base at Grangemouth.[4]
He became Second-in-Command of the Second Battle Squadron in 1919, Admiral Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard in 1920[5] and Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1921.[6] In 1925 he was made Admiral commanding the Reserves[7] and in 1927 he retired.[8]
He lived at Bayfordbury in Hertfordshire.[9]
In 1920 he married Rosa Agnes Henderson.[10]