Somerset Gough-Calthorpe

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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe (1865–1937), sometimes known as Sir Somerset Calthorpe, was a British Royal Navy admiral.

Calthorpe was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1911 and commanded the 2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron on the outbreak of the First World War. He served with the Grand Fleet under Sir John Jellicoe until May 1916 when he moved to the Admiralty as Second Sea Lord. Calthorpe's replacement, Rear Admiral Hood, was killed at Jutland when Invincible was lost with nearly all aboard.

Calthorpe served at the Admiralty until December 1916 when he was moved by the new incumbents, First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Edward Carson and First Sea Lord Sir John Jellicoe, to command the reserve fleet. In July 1917 Calthorpe was appointed to command the Mediterranean Fleet to replace Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, who had been brought home by the new First Lord Eric Campbell Geddes.

In the post-war period Calthorpe served as British Commissioner in the Ottoman Empire in 1918–1919 and then as Commander in Chief at Portsmouth until 1923.