About Matthew Best
Lived 1878 – 1940 (aged 62). Matthew Best was a naval officer.
Admiral Sir Matthew Robert Best & Bar, MVO (18 June 1878 – 13 October 1940) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station.
Early life Best was born in Frampton, Dorset, on 18 June 1878, the fifth child and third son of George Best (later the 5th Baron Wynford) and his wife Edith Anne (née Marsh).
Naval career Best joined the Royal Navy in 1892. He served in the First World War and fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 as Staff Officer to the Commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). He was appointed Commanding Officer of HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1919 and Commanding Officer and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet in 1927, before becoming Commander of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet in 1929. and admiral on 19 June 1936.
He died with the rank of admiral in 1940 at Frampton in Dorset.
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Who was Matthew Best?
Royal Navy admiral (1878-1940)
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Matthew Best was born on 18 June 1878 in Frampton.
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Matthew Best died on 13 October 1940 in Frampton.
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Matthew Best was a naval officer.
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