Charles de Bartolomé

Admiral Sir Charles Martin de Bartolomé, KCMG, CB (26 November 1871 – 27 May 1941) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy from 1918 to 1919.

Sir Charles de Bartolomé
Captain Charles de Bartolomé, 1918
Born(1871-11-26)26 November 1871
Died27 May 1941(1941-05-27) (aged 69)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Navy
Years of service1885–1919
RankAdmiral
Commands heldThird Sea Lord (1918–19)
HMS Warspite (1916–18)
HMS Invincible (1914)
HMS Neptune (1911)
HMS Indomitable (1909–11)
HMS Dreadnought (1908–09)
Battles/warsFirst World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companion of the Order of the Bath

Born the son of a Castilian physician,[1] De Bartolomé joined the Royal Navy in 1885.[2] He was posted as a lieutenant on the staff of HMS Excellent, shore establishment at Portsmouth, on 1 February 1900.[3] He was promoted to commander on 31 December 1902,[4] and posted to the armoured cruiser HMS Drake on her first commission in January 1903,[5] serving in the Channel Fleet. Promoted to captain in 1905,[6] he was given command of HMS Dreadnought.[7] He served in the First World War and was appointed Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1912 and Naval Secretary in 1914.[8] He became Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1918 in which year he also became Aide-de-Camp to the King; he retired in 1919 and then became Director General of Development at the Ministry of Transport.[2]

Family

In 1918 de Bartolomé married Gladys Constance Wilson.[6] Their second son, Stephen Martin de Bartolomé, married Helen Elisabeth Dawn, daughter of Brigadier General Alfred Ernest Irvine, of Under-the-Hill House, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.[9]

References
  1. Sheffield, University of. "Bartolomé Papers – Special Collections – The University Library – The University of Sheffield". www.sheffield.ac.uk.
  2. "King's Collections : Archive Catalogues : Military Archives". kingscollections.org.
  3. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36045. London. 22 January 1900. p. 6.
  4. "No. 27512". The London Gazette. 2 January 1903. p. 4.
  5. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36972. London. 8 January 1903. p. 8.
  6. "Royal Navy Flag Officers of the Dreadnought Era 1904–1945: Royal Navy Full Admirals". www.admirals.org.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  7. "Navy List 1908 Ship D to G". www.worldnavalships.com.
  8. Senior Royal Navy Appointments Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952, p. 1357, 'Irvine of Under-the-Hill House' pedigree
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