Churchill – referring to the fact that a German naval victory would have made it impossible for Britain to supply her army in France, or even import food – described Jellicoe later as ' the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon '.

English was later rescued by Lord John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Admiral of the British Fleet.

British cigarette card, early 20th century, showing then-Captain ( later admiral ) John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe | J. R. Jellicoe.

At the height of the British Empire, photographs of naval and military commanders were a popular subject for eagerly collected cigarette card s. The one shown here, from the turn of the 20th century, depicts then-Captain Jellicoe ( later John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe | Admiral Jellicoe of World War I ) in command of HMS Centurion ( 1892 ) | H. M. S.

Years later, when First Lord of the Admiralty, Jellicoe told at least one reporter: The only serious military distinction I ever achieved was having a new type of assault boat named after me.

As a naval cadet member of the multinational landing force that came to be known as the Seymour Relief Expedition Taussig served alongside and began a long and fraternal professional association with Royal Navy officers Captain John Jellicoe and Lieutenant David Beatty who later advanced to First Sea Lords of the Royal Navy.

Evan-Thomas spent seven months at the Royal Naval college, Greenwich on a lieutenants training course, where he became friendly with Lieutenant John Jellicoe ( later first sea lord and commander of the British fleet during World War I ).

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

Viscount Jellicoe served as the Governor-General of New Zealand in the 1920s.

Jellicoe served as chief of staff to Vice Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour during the Seymour expedition to relieve the legations at Peking in June 1900.

Admiral of the Fleet the Viscount Jellicoe served as Governor-General of New Zealand from September 1920 to November 1924.

A policy was introduced of promoting British naval officers by merit and ability rather than time served, which saw rapid promotions for Jellicoe and Beatty, both of whom had important roles in the forthcoming World War I.

* Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe of Great Britain ( 1859 – 1935 ), awarded the Order, 2nd Class, with swords, for actions in China during the Boxer Rebellion, where he served as a captain.

When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.

Admiral Jellicoe was appointed First Sea Lord in November 1916 and turned over command of the Grand Fleet to Admiral David Beatty.

On Christmas Eve 1917, Admiral Jellicoe was rather abruptly dismissed as First Sea Lord by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, and was succeeded by Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss.

When passing through London he was greeted cordially by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, who offered him transport on board a British cruiser on his way to Halifax.

Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe, as First Sea Lord.

On 4 August 1914, as the First World War was breaking out, John Jellicoe was ordered to take command of the Fleet, which by his appointment order was renamed the Grand Fleet.

Lord Jellicoe was the only son but sixth and youngest child of First World War naval commander, commander at the Battle of Jutland, Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Earl Jellicoe by his wife Florence Gwendoline ( died 1964 ), second daughter of Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Bt., of Gartmore, Perthshire.

On 12 May 1916 a meeting took place at Rosyth between Jellicoe, Beatty and First Sea Lord Jackson to discuss the future of the battlecruiser fleet.

Out of London, venues included the Dagenham Roundhouse, the Grand in Leigh on Sea and the Admiral Jellicoe on Canvey Island.

The change came in the form of promotion, with Jellicoe becoming first Sea Lord.

* Earl Jellicoe and Lord Lambton sex scandal ( 1973 ): Conservatives, junior defence minister Lambton is arrested for using prostitutes and Cabinet minister Jellicoe also confesses.

Lord and Lady Jellicoe, 1924

Lord Jellicoe married Gwendoline Cayzer in London in July 1902.

After the 1970 General Election, new Conservative Prime Minister Ted Heath appointed Lord Jellicoe in Lord Shackleton's place.

* Earl Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal ( 1970 – 73 ).

There was a confusion and Lord Jellicoe, the Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, admitted ' casual affairs ' with prostitutes from a Mayfair escort agency but denied knowing Norma Levy.

In October 1939, the young 2nd Lord Jellicoe was a cadet in the first wartime intake at RMC Sandhurst.

In March 1944, Lord Jellicoe married Patricia Christine O ' Kane ( Oct. 1917-March 2012 ), who was employed at the British Embassy in Beirut.

Beatty was an intelligent and able leader, but all his social and sporting obligations, coupled with his high-strung temperament, prevented him from becoming a coldly calculating professional like Jellicoe – or his adversary, Hipper.

The Royal Navy named a King George V-class battleship after Beatty, but this ship was renamed HMS Howe before completion, as another battleship of the same class, intended to be named after Jellicoe, was renamed HMS Anson.

Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO SGM ( 5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935 ) was a British Royal Navy admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in World War I.

Born in Southampton into a seafaring family, Jellicoe joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1872 and was posted to HMS Britannia.

On the basis of this information, Frost decided to divide the company into five groups of forty men for the raid, each named after a famous Royal Navy admiral: Nelson, Jellicoe, Hardy, Drake and Rodney.

Jellicoe was a member of the Onassis International Prizes Committee ( 1983 – 1992 ); a vice-president of The European-Atlantic Group and of the Byron Society ; he was on the board of the Hellenic College London ; patron of the City of Southampton Society ; a patron of the Greek Archaeological Committee ( UK ); one of five patrons of The Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon ; a director of The Landscape Foundation ( now dormant ); patron of Friends of The Royal Hospital School ; patron of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology ; a member of the World Innovation Fund ( WIF ) and an associate member of INEED.

* Lord Shackleton, by Lord Jellicoe, in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, number 45, 1999, printed by the Cambridge University Press for the Royal Society.

During World War I, the lough was used by the Royal Navy as an anchorage for the North Atlantic Fleet under Admiral Jellicoe and a gathering / staging point for North Atlantic convoys.

Short of funds, he turned to Adam Jellicoe, at that time chief clerk in the pay branch of the Royal Navy treasury, who agreed to finance Cort in return for a payment of £ 27, 000 on the security of the assignment of Cort's patents and one half of any profits.

When Adam Jellicoe died suddenly on 30 August 1789, it became apparent that the £ 27, 000 lent to Cort had come from public funds belonging to the Royal Navy.

The line was used in World War I by intensive coal trains, dubbed ' Jellicoe Specials ', from the South Wales Coalfield travelling north towards Scapa Flow via the Mid-Wales Railway for use by warships of the Royal Navy.

During the period of Devine's directorship, besides Osborne and Bond, the Royal Court premiered works by Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Ann Jellicoe and N. F. Simpson.

After three years studying with writers his age but already well-known ( like John Arden, Arnold Wesker, and Ann Jellicoe ), Bond had his real first play, The Pope's Wedding staged as a Sunday night ' performance without décor ' at the Royal Court Theatre in 1962.