Charles de Bartolomé
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Admiral Sir Charles Martin de Bartolomé, KCMG, CB (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.
Sir Charles de Bartolomé | |
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Captain Charles de Bartolomé, 1918 | |
| Born | 26 November 1871 |
| Died | 27 May 1941 (aged 69) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Branch | Royal Navy |
| Service years | 1885–1919 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands | Third Sea Lord (1918–19) HMS Warspite (1916–18) HMS Invincible (1914) HMS Neptune (1911) HMS Indomitable (1909–11) HMS Dreadnought (1908–09) |
| Conflicts | First World War |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Companion of the Order of the Bath |
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 HMS Excellent, shore establishment at Portsmouth, on 1 February 1900.[3] He was promoted to commander on 31 December 1902,[4] and posted to the armoured cruiser HMS Drake on her first commission in January 1903,[5] serving in the Channel Fleet. Promoted to captain in 1905,[6] he was given command of HMS Dreadnought.[7] He served in the First World War and was appointed Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1912 and Naval Secretary in 1914.[8] 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.[6] 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.[9]