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Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe (1859-1935) was Britain's best-known Admiral at the start of the war.

Born on 5 December 1859 in Southampton, he joined the Royal Navy in 1872 and served in the Egyptian War of 1882.

In the years prior to the war Jellicoe served as Director of Naval Ordnance from 1905-7, and Controller of the Navy from 1908-10. Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, appointed Jellicoe second-in-command of the Grand Fleet in November 1911.

Jellicoe was Admiral Fisher's long-standing choice to lead the grand fleet in wartime, a long-time assistant of Fisher's in the modernisation of the navy, and was accordingly appointed its commander on 4 August 1914, replacing Sir George Callaghan.

Jellicoe's defensive, cautious approach to naval warfare contrasted markedly with a wider public expectation of a major naval battle in the North Sea. In this respect Jellicoe was unfavourably compared with his eventual successor, Admiral Beatty.

However, the Royal Navy's primary task was to mainta

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Admiral John Jellicoe (1859 - 1935)

John Jellicoe ©Jellicoe was the best-known British naval commander of World War One, and commanded the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

John Jellicoe was born on 5 December 1859 in Southampton, the son of a merchant navy captain. He entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1872 and saw active service in the Egyptian War of 1882, later leading the naval brigade during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion. In the years leading up to World War One, Jellicoe served as director of naval ordnance (1905 - 1907), and controller of the navy (1908 - 1910).

In 1911, he became second in command of the Grand Fleet. He was appointed the commander of the fleet the day war broke out with Germany in 1914, a position which Winston Churchill observed made him 'the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon'. Jellicoe's command was put to the test at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 at which neither British nor German fleets were outright winners. Jellicoe was heavily criticised for failing to achieve the knockout blow against the

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Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1859–1935)

This article is about the Admiral of the Fleet. For other people named John Jellicoe, see John Jellicoe (disambiguation).

Admiral of the FleetJohn Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO, DL, SGM (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935)^[1] was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War. His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial. Jellicoe made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port, at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain, but the public was disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a more dramatic victory given that they outnumbered the enemy. Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord, overseeing the expansion of the Naval Staff at the Admiralty and the introduction of convoys, but was relieved at the end of 1917. He also served as the governor-gen