Admiral Sir Rudolph Walter Bentinck, KCB, KCMG (20 March 1869 – 31 March 1947) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth from 1926 to 1929.
Early life
Rudolph was the second son of Walter Theodore Edward Bentinck, 13th Baron Bentinck (1840–1901), of a distinguished Dutch family, by his wife Henrietta Jane Christina (d. 1924), daughter of William Hinton, of The Til, Madeira, Portugal.[1]
Naval career
Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Bentinck joined the Royal Navy in 1882.[2] He took part in the Mahdist War in 1891, and was promoted to commander on 31 December 1901.[3] He was appointed Commander of the Royal Naval College, Osborne, in 1913.[2]
Bentinck served in the First World War, taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, as Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir David Beatty,[4] and being mentioned in despatches.[2] After the war he became Naval Secretary.[2] He was appointed second-in-command of the 1st Battle Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet in 1921 and went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the Africa Station in 1922.[2] In that capacity he was briefly acting Governor-General of South Africa from December 1923 to January 1924.[5]
Bentinck became Admiral Commanding the Reserve Fleet in March 1926 and then Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth later that year: he retired in 1929.[6]
Family
In 1898 Bentinck married Mabel Fetherstonhaugh;[7] they had one son and one daughter.[2] A descendant is the entrepreneur Alice Bentinck.[1]
References
- ^ a b Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 3, p. 3183
- ^ a b c d e f The Peerage.com
- ^ "No. 27393". The London Gazette. 3 January 1902. p. 3.
- ^ Battle of Jutland – Royal Navy Ships and Commanding Officers
- ^ Botswana World Statesmen
- ^ Moseley, Brian (18 March 2006). "Royal Navy Training Ships". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ World Roots
