Somerset Gough-Calthorpe

Admiral of the Fleet The Honourable Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe
Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe
Born	23 December 1864 (1864-12-23) London, England
Died	27 July 1937 (1937-07-28) (aged 72) Ryde, Isle of Wight
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1878–1930
Rank	Admiral of the Fleet
Commands	Portsmouth Command Mediterranean Fleet Coastguard and Reserves 2nd Cruiser Squadron HMS Dreadnought HMS Hindustan HMS Roxburgh HMS Pandora HMS Halcyon
Battles/wars	Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War First World War
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Admiral of the Fleet The Honourable Sir Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe GCB, GCMG, CVO, DL (23 December 1864 – 27 July 1937),^[1] sometimes known as Sir Somerset Calthorpe, was a Royal Navy officer and a member of the Gough-Calthorpe family. After serving as a junior officer during the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War, he became naval attaché observing the actions of the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War and then went on to command an armoured cruiser and then a battleship during the early years of the 20th century.

During the First World War Gough-Calthorpe initially served as commander of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, then became Second Sea Lord and after that became Admiral commanding the Coastguard and Reserves. In the closing years of the War he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, in which capacity he signed the Armistice of Mudros on behalf of all the Allies, by which the Ottoman Empire accepted defeat and ceased hostilities. The Occupation of Constantinople began with the Allied fleet entering Constantinople in November 1918 and it was Gough-Calthorpe's flagship, HMS Superb, that led the way.

After the War Gough-Calthorpe served as British Commissioner in the Ottoman Empire during a time of considerable political instability associated with the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire and the allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.