First Sea Lords

MALCOLM H. MURFETT completed his undergraduate program at Leeds University and won a scholarship to New College, Oxford, in 1974. While working on his doctorate in Modern History, he was chosen to become the Principal Research Assistant to the Earl of Birkenhead. After spending five years on the officially commissioned, single-volume biography of Sir Winston Churchill, he was appointed Lecturer in Modern History at the National University of Singapore and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1986. Mr. Murfett has also been a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford, a Visiting Professor in Modern British History at York University, Toronto, and a Visiting Fellow at University College, University of New South Wales in Canberra. He became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1990.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsThe First Sea Lords (1904-1959): An Overview by Malcolm H. MurfettAdmiral Sir John (later Baron) Fisher (1904-1910; 1914-1915) by Barry M. GoughAdmiral Sir Arthur Knyvett-Wilson, V.C. (1910-1911) by Nicholas A. LambertAdmiral Sir Francis Bridgeman-Bridgeman (1911-1912) by Nicholas A. LambertAdmiral Prince Louis of Battenberg (1912-1914) by John B. HattendorfAdmiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson (1915-1916) by Malcolm H. MurfettAdmiral Sir John Jellicoe (1916-1917) by Donald M. SchurmanAdmiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss (1917-1919) by James GoldrickAdmiral David Earl Beatty (1919-1927) by Brian Mc.L. RanftAdmiral Sir Charles E. Madden (1927-1930) and Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field (1930-1933) by Nicholas TracyAdmiral Sir Ernle (later Baron) Chatfield (1933-1938) by Eric J. GroveAdmiral Sir Roger R.C. Backhouse (1938-1939) by Malcolm H. MurfettAdmiral Sir Dudley Pound (1939-1943) by Robin BrodhurstAdmiral Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1943-1946) by Michael SimpsonAdmiral Sir John H.D. Cunningham (1946-1948) by Malcolm H. MurfettAdmiral Lord Fraser of North Cape (1948-1951) by Tom FrameAdmiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor (1951-1955) by Eric J. GroveAdmiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1955-1959) by Geoffrey TillSelect BibliographyIndex