# John Edelsten > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Edelsten > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Edelsten.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edelsten > Source revision: 1353069803 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = [Admiral](/source/Admiral_(Royal_Navy)) | name = Sir John Edelsten | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|GCVO|CBE}} | image = John Edelsten (1953).jpg | caption = John Edelsten (1953) | birth_date = 12 May 1891{{Cite web|url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1544|title=The Papers of Vice-Admiral Sir John Edelsten|work=Archivesearch|publisher=Churchill Archives Centre}} | death_date = 10 February 1966 | birth_place = [Enfield](/source/Enfield%2C_London), Middlesex, England | death_place = [Liphook](/source/Liphook), Hampshire | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{navy|United Kingdom}} | service_years = | rank = [Admiral](/source/Admiral_(Royal_Navy)) | unit = | commands = [1st Battle Squadron](/source/1st_Battle_Squadron_(United_Kingdom))
[4th Cruiser Squadron](/source/4th_Cruiser_Squadron)
[Mediterranean Fleet](/source/Mediterranean_Fleet)
[Portsmouth Command](/source/Commander-in-Chief%2C_Portsmouth) | battles = [World War II](/source/World_War_II) | awards = [Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath)
[Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order)
[Commander of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) }} [Admiral](/source/Admiral_(Royal_Navy)) '''Sir John Hereward Edelsten''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB|GCVO|CBE}} (12 May 1891 – 10 February 1966) was a senior [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) officer who went on to be [Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth](/source/Commander-in-Chief%2C_Portsmouth).{{cite news |title= Obituary: Admiral Sir John Edelsten |work=[The Times](/source/The_Times) |date=11 February 1966 |page= 18 }} ==Early life== Edelsten was born 12 May 1891 in Enfield, Middlesex, England the third son to John Jackson Edelsten and Jessica Gooding.{{Cite web|last=Amarna|first=Cheri|date=|title=Edelsten/Taylor Family Tree|url=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/11109087/person/-525493131/facts|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Ancestry.com}} John Jackson Edelsten owned a tea broker business.{{Cite ODNB|title=Edelsten, Sir John Hereward (1891–1966), naval officer|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-65600|access-date=2020-06-10|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/65600}} ==Naval career== Edelsten joined the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) in 1908.[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/EDELSTEN.shtml Sir John Hereward Edelsten] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, kcl.ac.uk; accessed 8 April 2016. He served in [World War I](/source/World_War_I) and then became Deputy Director of Plans in 1938. He also served in [World War II](/source/World_War_II) initially as Senior Naval Officer during operations against [Italian Somaliland](/source/Italian_Somaliland) before becoming [chief of staff](/source/chief_of_staff) to the [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station](/source/Mediterranean_Fleet) in 1941. He was made Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (U-boat Warfare and Trade) in 1942 and Rear Admiral (Destroyers) for the [British Pacific Fleet](/source/British_Pacific_Fleet) in 1945. After the War he commanded 1st Battle Squadron and then 4th Cruiser Squadron before becoming [Vice Chief of the Naval Staff](/source/Vice_Chief_of_the_Naval_Staff_(United_Kingdom)) in 1947. He was made [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet](/source/Mediterranean_Fleet) in 1950; this post was dual hatted from 1952 as NATO Commander [Allied Forces Mediterranean](/source/Allied_Forces_Mediterranean). In this capacity he conducted a two-day visit to [Israel](/source/Israel). His last post was as [Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth](/source/Commander-in-Chief%2C_Portsmouth) and NATO Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Channel Command in 1952; he retired in 1954. He was also [First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp](/source/List_of_First_and_Principal_Naval_Aides-de-Camp) to [the Queen](/source/Elizabeth_II) from 1953 to 1954.{{London Gazette|issue=39853|supp=y|page=2704|date=15 May 1953}} Edelsten was appointed a [Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order) in the [1953 Coronation Honours](/source/1953_Coronation_Honours). == Family == On 14 December 1926, Edelsten married Frances Anne Hoile Masefield at the Holy Trinity Church in London.Ancestry.com. London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Frances was born 14 October 1900 in Broughty Ferry, Forfarshire, Scotland to Henry Valentine Masefield and Caroline Gordon. ==References== {{reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box|title=[Vice Chief of the Naval Staff](/source/Vice_Chief_of_the_Naval_Staff_(United_Kingdom))|before=[Sir Rhoderick McGrigor](/source/Rhoderick_McGrigor)|after=[Sir George Creasy](/source/George_Creasy)|years=1947–1949}} |- {{succession box | title=[Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet](/source/Mediterranean_Fleet) | before=[Sir Arthur Power](/source/Arthur_Power) | after=[Lord Mountbatten](/source/Louis_Mountbatten%2C_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma)| years=1950–1952}} |- {{succession box | title=[Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth](/source/Commander-in-Chief%2C_Portsmouth) | before=[Sir Arthur Power](/source/Arthur_Power) | after=[Sir George Creasy](/source/George_Creasy)| years=1952–1955}} |- {{s-hon}} {{s-bef | before=[Sir Rhoderick McGrigor](/source/Rhoderick_McGrigor)}} {{s-ttl | title=[First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp](/source/List_of_First_and_Principal_Naval_Aides-de-Camp) | years=1953–1954}} {{s-aft | after=[Sir Guy Russell](/source/Guy_Russell)}} |- {{s-bef|before=[Sir Percy Noble](/source/Percy_Noble_(Royal_Navy_officer))}} {{s-ttl|title=[Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom](/source/Rear-Admiral_of_the_United_Kingdom) |years=1955–1962}} {{s-aft|after=[Sir Peter Reid](/source/Peter_Reid_(Royal_Navy_officer))}} |- {{s-bef|before=[Sir Martin Dunbar-Nasmith](/source/Martin_Dunbar-Nasmith)}} {{s-ttl|title=[Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom](/source/Vice-Admiral_of_the_United_Kingdom) |years=1962–1966}} {{s-aft|after=[Sir Peter Reid](/source/Peter_Reid_(Royal_Navy_officer))}} {{s-end}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Edelston, John}} Category:1891 births Category:1966 deaths Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Royal Navy officers of World War I Category:Royal Navy admirals of World War II Category:Lords of the Admiralty Category:Admiralty personnel of World War II Category:People from Enfield, London Category:Military personnel from the London Borough of Enfield --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [John Edelsten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edelsten) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edelsten?action=history)). 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