John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
Royal Navy officer
Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1859
Place of Birth: Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 20-Nov-1935
Profession: military personnel, politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
- Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer.
- He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War.
- His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial.
- Jellicoe made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port, at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain, but the public was disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a more dramatic victory.
- Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord, overseeing the expansion of the Naval Staff at the Admiralty and the introduction of convoys, but was relieved at the end of 1917.
- He also served as the Governor-General of New Zealand in the early 1920s.
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