Vincent Baddeley

Sir Vincent Wilberforce Baddeley (24 September 1874 − 25 July 1961) was a British civil servant who spent almost all his career at the Admiralty.

Baddeley was the son of the Reverend J. J. Baddeley (died 1924 ), rector of Chelsfield, Kent. He won scholarships to Marlborough College and Pembroke College, Oxford, joined the War Office as a clerk (class I) in December 1897 and transferred to the Admiralty Secretariat From November 1901 ), Lord Tweedmouth and Reginald McKenna. to 1920, Baddeley was assistant secretary for finance duties. until his retirement on 31 December 1935 he was deputy secretary of the Admiralty. and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1921 New Year Honours.

For much of his life Baddeley lived alone in a flat in Barton Street, Westminster, where he entertained the young resident clerks of the Admiralty, who lived in the Admiralty building itself to handle business at night and at the weekends. He had himself been a resident clerk at the beginning of his career, and recognised how lonely it could be. However, on 4 October 1933, in St Faith's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, he married (Katharine) Angela Thynne MBE (died 3 February 1990 ), daughter of Major-General Sir Reginald Thynne. Immediately after his retirement, the couple left for a three-month holiday in South Africa.

In retirement, Baddeley was on the board of the Alliance Insurance Company from 1935 to 1953 and was prime warden of the Fishmongers' Company in 1936−37. From 1932, he was a member of the council of the Navy Records Society. He was a member of the Travellers Club and an honorary member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Baddeley was an enthusiastic walker and a committed Christian.

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