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MILITARY PERSONNEL

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

1871 - 1936

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Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, (17 January 1871 – 12 March 1936) was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Mahdist War and then the response to the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. He is remembered for his comment at Jutland that "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today", after two of his ships exploded. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty has received more than 611,571 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty is the 1,067th most popular military personnel (down from 974th in 2019), the 2,012th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,899th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 1,067 out of 1,468Before him are Quintus Labienus, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Nikephoros Phokas the Elder, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Claude Auchinleck. After him are Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, Hannibal Gisco, Hugh Dowding, Petar Bojović, Maximilian Fretter-Pico, and Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 73Before him are Wilhelm von Mirbach, Fritz Hofmann, Abanindranath Tagore, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Hermann Abert, and Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Alexander Spendiaryan, Benjamin I of Constantinople, Camille Huysmans, Kōtoku Shūsui, Luigi Sturzo, and Lottie Dod. Among people deceased in 1936, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 90Before him are Hu Hanmin, Jean Patou, Nahum Sokolow, Gustave Kahn, John Gilbert, and Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri. After him are Louis Camille Maillard, Georgios Kondylis, Alexander Guchkov, Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Sophie, Princess of Albania, and Svetozar Pribićević.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 2,012 out of 7,765Before him are Joseph Delaney (1945), Robert Hichens (1882), Albert F. Mummery (1855), Claude Auchinleck (1884), Chris Bristow (1937), and Tony Brooks (1932). After him are Jane Morris (1839), Ken Robinson (1950), Edward Colston (1636), Elihu Thomson (1853), Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640), and Donald Crisp (1882).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ranks 50Before him are Gregor MacGregor (1786), John Alcock (1892), Captain Tom (1920), Henry Allingham (1896), James Wolfe (1727), and Claude Auchinleck (1884). After him are Hugh Dowding (1882), Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), Sidney Smith (1764), Eddie Chapman (1914), and Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889).