George Chetwode

Admiral Sir George Knightley Chetwode, KCB, CBE (10 December 1877 – 11 March 1957) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.

Naval career Born the son of Sir George Chetwode, 6th Baronet, Chetwode joined the Royal Navy and was appointed a Lieutenant in December 1899. He was appointed temporary to the gunboat HMS Esk, in lieu of a sub-lieutenant, on 31 December 1899. The following year he served on the China Station during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. He was appointed Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence in 1923 and then given command of the battleship followed by the battleship HMS Warspite.

Family In 1908 he married Alice Clara Vaughan-Lee; they had two sons, including the British Army officer and cricketer George Chetwode. In 1939 he married Elizabeth Jane Taylor.