Milford Haven, Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of

Milford Haven, Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of

▪ British admiral
also called  (until 1917) Louis Alexander, Prince Of Battenberg  
born May 24, 1854, Graz, Austria
died Sept. 11, 1921, London, Eng.
 British admiral of the fleet and first sea lord, who was responsible, with Winston Churchill, for the total mobilization of the fleet prior to World War I.

      The eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse, he was naturalized as a British subject in 1868, when he entered the Royal Navy. He took part in the British invasion of Egypt in 1882, including the bombardment of Alexandria (July 11). After serving as director of naval intelligence, he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in 1904 and vice admiral in 1908. He commanded the Atlantic Fleet from 1908 to 1910 and became first sea lord in 1912. As such he was charged with readying the fleet for war. After a test mobilization in July 1914, he ordered (with instructions from Churchill, first lord of the Admiralty) the reserve ships to remain in full commission; thus, the fleet was wholly mobilized on Aug. 3, 1914, the day before Great Britain entered World War I.

      Despite this and other services, he was forced to resign as first sea lord (Oct. 29, 1914) because of his German birth. In 1917, at the request of King George V, he relinquished his German titles, assumed the surname of Mountbatten, and on July 17 of that year was created marquess of Milford Haven.

      In 1884 he had married Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. They had two daughters and two sons, George (1892–1938), 2nd marquess, and Louis, afterward Earl Mountbatten of Burma. A grandson (through his daughter Princess Alice) is Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

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