John Dundas

Vice-Admiral John George Lawrence Dundas, (3 November 1893 – 26 March 1952) was a Royal Navy officer who served as the Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff from 1944 to 1945.

Biography Born on 3 November 1893, Dundas was the son of the Hon. Cospatrick Thomas Dundas, DL, JP (1862–1906) and his wife Maud FitzWilliam (1871–1949), a daughter of the Hon. George Wentworth-FitzWilliam and a granddaughter of the 5th Earl FitzWilliam. Dundas's father was a grandson of the 1st Earl of Zetland and, when his elder brother inherited the earldom in 1873, Cospatrick was afforded the style of a peer's younger son. After his death in 1906, Maud remarried (in 1912) to the army officer and colonial administrator Major Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux.

Dundas entered the Royal Navy in 1907 as a cadet. He was commissioned as a full Sub-Lieutenant in December 1914 and promoted to Lieutenant a year later. During the First World War, Dundas served in torpedo boats and in HMS Hercules. He completed training at the Naval Staff College in 1924 and served as the gunnery officer for the 2nd Cruiser Squadron. and was involved in escorting the Russian convoys.