{{Short description|Royal Navy Admiral (1877–1957)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Admiral | name = Sir George Chetwode | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CBE}} | image = George Chetwode in 1938.jpg | caption = Chetwode in 1938 | birth_date = 10 December 1877 | death_date = {{death-date and age|11 March 1957|10 December 1877}} | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = | death_place = | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{navy|United Kingdom}} | service_years = | rank = Admiral | unit = | commands = {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|6}}<br />HMS ''Warspite'' | battles = Boxer Rebellion<br />World War I | awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath<br />Commander of the Order of the British Empire | relations = | other_work = }} Admiral '''Sir George Knightley Chetwode''', KCB, CBE (10 December 1877 &ndash; 11 March 1957)<ref>{{cite news |title=Adml. Sir George Chetwode |newspaper=The Times |location=London, England |date=12 March 1957 |page=10 |issue=53787}}</ref> was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.

==Naval career== Born the son of Sir George Chetwode, 6th Baronet,<ref name=peerage>[https://thepeerage.com/p4833.htm#i48322The Peerage.com]</ref> Chetwode joined the Royal Navy and was appointed a Lieutenant in December 1899. He was appointed temporary to the gunboat HMS ''Esk'', in lieu of a sub-lieutenant, on 31 December 1899.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=2 February 1900 |page=10 |issue=36055}}</ref> The following year he served on the China Station during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.<ref name=peerage/>

He served in World War I taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and commanding destroyers for the rest of the War.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/CHETWODE1.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]</ref> He was appointed Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence in 1923 and then given command of the battleship {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|6}} followed by the battleship HMS ''Warspite''.<ref name=lh/> He was made Naval Secretary in 1929 and Commander of the 1st Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1932.<ref name=lh/> His last appointment was as Admiral commanding the reserves in 1933 before he retired in 1936.<ref>[http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19360820.2.69.aspx Admiral Chetwode retires] The Straits Times, 20 August 1936</ref>

==Family== In 1908 he married Alice Clara Vaughan-Lee; they had two sons, including the British Army officer and cricketer George Chetwode.<ref name=peerage/> In 1939 he married Elizabeth Jane Taylor.<ref name=peerage/>

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