{{Short description|Royal Navy officer (1877–1952)}} {{About|the British navy officer|the sculptor|Henry Hudson Kitson}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Vice-Admiral |name = Sir Henry Kitson |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|CB}} |birth_date=22 June 1877 |death_date=19 February 1952 (aged 74) |birth_place= Highweek, Devon |death_place= Farnham, Surrey |image= |caption= |birth_name=Henry Karslake Kitson |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= 1891–1933<br/>1940–1942 |rank= Vice-Admiral |commands= 3rd Battle Squadron<br/>Portsmouth Dockyard |branch=23px Royal Navy |unit= |battles=World War I<br/>World War II |awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br/>Companion of the Order of the Bath |other_work= }} Vice-Admiral '''Sir Henry Karslake Kitson''' KBE CB (22 June 1877 – 19 February 1952) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the 3rd Battle Squadron.
==Naval career== Kitson joined the Royal Navy in 1891<ref name=lh>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/KITSON1.shtml|title=Henry Kitson|publisher=Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|accessdate=5 October 2014}}</ref> and served in World War I. He was made Commander of 3rd Battle Squadron in 1929<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |title=Senior Royal Navy appointments |accessdate=4 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105247/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |archivedate=15 March 2012 }}</ref> and then Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard in 1931 before retiring as a vice-admiral in 1933.<ref name=lh/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33900|page=127|date= 6 January 1933}}</ref> He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1929 Birthday Honours<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33501|page=3667|supp=y|date=31 May 1929}}</ref> and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1935 Birthday Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=15180|page=490|date=7 June 1935}}</ref>
He also served in World War II as Flag Officer, Coast of Cornwall from 1940 until 1942.<ref name=lh/>
==Personal life== In 1926, he married Marjorie de Pass, daughter of Sir Eliot Arthur de Pass. His brother-in-law Frank de Pass was the first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 2208 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>
They had two sons, including Sir Frank Kitson.<ref name="burke"/>
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