Charles de Bartolomé

Admiral Sir Charles Martin de Bartolomé KCMG CB (26 November 1871 – 27 May 1941) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy.

Sir Charles de Bartolomé
Sir Charles de Bartolomé
Born26 November 1871
Died27 May 1941 (1941-05-28) (aged 69)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
RankAdmiral
Commands heldHMS Dreadnought
Battles/warsWorld War I
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companion of the Order of the Bath

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] Promoted to Captain in 1905,[4] he was given command of HMS Dreadnought.[5] He served in World War I and was appointed Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1912 and Naval Secretary in 1914.[6] 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 he married Gladys Constance Wilson.[4] 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.[7]

References
  1. Sheffield, University of. "Bartolomé Papers - Special Collections - The University Library - The University of Sheffield". www.sheffield.ac.uk.
  2. "King's Collections : Archive Catalogues : Military Archives". kingscollections.org.
  3. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36045). London. 22 January 1900. p. 6.
  4. "Royal Navy Flag Officers of the Dreadnought Era 1904-1945: Royal Navy Full Admirals". www.admirals.org.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  5. "Navy List 1908 Ship D to G". www.worldnavalships.com.
  6. Senior Royal Navy Appointments Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952, p. 1357, 'Irvine of Under-the-Hill House' pedigree
Military offices
Preceded by
Henry Oliver		 Naval Secretary
1914–1916		 Succeeded by
Allan Everett
Preceded by
Sir Lionel Halsey		 Third Sea Lord
1918–1919		 Succeeded by
Sir William Nicholson
Preceded by
Sir Alan Anderson		 Controller of the Navy
1918–1919
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