Allan Everett (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Allan Everett
Born	(1868-02-22)22 February 1868
Died	22 January 1938(1938-01-22) (aged 69)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1884–1926
Rank	Admiral
Commands held	China Station Chief of the Australian Naval Staff 8th Light Cruiser Squadron 4th Light Cruiser Squadron
Battles/wars	First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of the Bath

Admiral Sir Allan Frederic Everett KCMG, KCVO, CB (22 February 1868 – 22 January 1938) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff.

Naval services

Born the fourth son of Colonel John Frederic Everett,^[1] Everett joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1884.^[2] He became Captain of the Fleet for the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet in 1913 and at the start of the First World War found himself on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet.^[1] He was made Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1915 and Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1916.^[1] He became Naval Secretary later that year and served in that role during the closing stages of the war.^[3] He was given command of the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron in October 1918.^[4] After the war he was given command of the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic,^[1] before becoming First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff in 1921^[5] and then Commander-in-Chief, China Station in November 1924.^[6] He suffered a breakdown in April 1925 and was relieved of his command shortly thereafter.^[7] He retired in 1926.^[2]

He died in London in January 1938.^[8]

Family

In 1899 he married Michaelangela Katherine Carr.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 Edward Walford, The county families of the United Kingdom, or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (Volume ed.59, yr.1919). (page 122 of 416)
1 2 3 Royal Navy Flag Officers
↑ Royal Air Force flag: timeline for introduction
↑ The Grand Fleet 1914–1918
↑ Farewell to Sir Allan Everett The Melbourne Argus, 30 August 1923
↑ The China Squadron The Straits Times, 16 September 1924
↑ Letter to the Prime Minister Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, 14 May 1925
↑ Death of Admiral Sir Allan Everett The Melbourne Argus, 24 January 1938

External links

Works written by or about Allan Frederic Everett at Wikisource
The Dreadnought Project: Allan Everett

Military offices
Preceded by Rear Admiral Sir Percy Grant	First Naval Member, Australian Commonwealth Naval Board 1921–1923	Succeeded by Rear Admiral Percival Hall-Thompson
Preceded by Sir Arthur Leveson	Commander-in-Chief, China Station 1924–1925	Succeeded by Sir David Anderson (Acting)
Preceded by Charles de Bartolomé	Naval Secretary 1916–1918	Succeeded by Sir Rudolph Bentinck

Chiefs of the Royal Australian Navy

Director, Commonwealth Naval Forces	Sir William Rooke Creswell

First Naval Members, Australian Commonwealth Naval Board	Sir William Rooke Creswell Sir Percy Grant Sir Allan Everett Percival Hall-Thompson William Napier Sir William Munro Kerr Sir George Hyde Sir Ragnar Colvin Sir Guy Royle Sir Louis Keppel Hamilton Sir John Augustine Collins Sir Roy Dowling Sir Henry Burrell Sir Hastings Harrington Sir Alan McNicoll Sir Victor Smith Sir Richard Peek Sir David Stevenson

Chiefs of the Naval Staff	Sir Anthony Synnot Sir James Willis David Leach Michael Hudson Ian MacDougall Rodney Taylor

Chiefs of Navy	Rodney Taylor Donald Chalmers David Shackleton Chris Ritchie Russ Shalders Russell Crane Raymond Griggs Timothy Barrett

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