[1st Bart.]. British Admiral, born at Oxford on the 10th of May 1870, the youngest son of the Rev. Richard St. John Tyrwhitt. He entered the navy in 1883, was promoted lieutenant (1892), commander (1903), captain (1908), commodore (1914) and rear-admiral (1919). He was in charge of a landing party at Nicaragua in 1894. During the World War he commanded destroyer flotillas in actions in Heligoland Bight (Aug. and Dec. 1914) and off the Dogger Bank (1915). He was created K.C.B. in 1917, and in 1919 received a baronetcy, a grant of £10,000 and the thanks of Parliament.
