Jellicoe


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Jellicoe

(ˈdʒɛlɪˌkəʊ)
n
(Biography) John Rushworth, 1st Earl Jellicoe. 1859–1935, British admiral, who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland (1916), which incapacitated the German fleet for the rest of World War I
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Sir George Callahan; replaced Callahan as Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet at the outbreak of World War I (August 4, 1914), and undertook to improve the fleet's combat readiness; admiral (March 1915); led the Home Fleet to intercept Scheer's sortie, and defeated him at Jutland (May 31-June 1, 1916); although British losses were greater than the German, Jellicoe had not "lost the war in an afternoon," and the German High Seas Fleet's strategic position was unchanged; first sea lord (November 28, 1916-December 1917); Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa (December 1919); admiral of the fleet (1919); governor-general of New Zealand (1920-1924); created earl (1925); died on November 20, 1935.
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