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
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