George Jellicoe: SAS and SBS Commander

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Lord Byers for the Liberal Party added: "we regret bitterly his resignation ... He was a reforming innovator and the House owes a great deal more than it probably knows to the interest he took in this House and to his initiatives." (Hansard, 5 June 1973) The Boxer Rebellion, The Fifth Wellington Lecture, University of Southampton, by the Rt Hon the Earl Jellicoe, KBE, DSO, MC, LLD, FRS, PC, University of Southampton, 1993.

Lorna Windmill's biography termed Jellicoe a British Achilles on account of two of his careers derailing as a result of women: in the 1950s for love, and in the 1970s for escorts. [ citation needed] Honours [ ]

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John Jellicoe, my grandfather, the trust’s founder and first benefactor, would have been honoured – and touched – that such a worthy cause carries his name. It is a legacy to his humanity and his vision.’ These are but minor criticisms of an exceptionally informative and enjoyable tribute to an important pioneer of Britain’s world-famous Special Forces and a stirring tale of a gallant young soldier who, through his strong sense of duty and obligation to society, went on to become a distinguished public servant in his quest to continue to serve his country. Daily Telegraph Deaths Announcements – Patricia, Countess Jellicoe". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013 . Retrieved 21 March 2012. Jellicoe qualified as a gunnery officer in 1883 and was appointed to the staff of the gunnery school HMS Excellent in May 1884. [3] He joined the turret ship HMS Monarch as gunnery officer in September 1885 and was awarded the Board of Trade Silver Medal for rescuing the crew of a capsized steamer near Gibraltar in May 1886. [5] He joined the battleship HMS Colossus in April 1886 and was put in charge of the experimental department at HMS Excellent in December 1886 before being appointed an assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance in September 1889. [6] The battleship HMS Victoria sinking

In this work his son, Nicholas, who has come late in life to write three extraordinary good books, describes his father's exploits in action and public service, as well as controversial episodes. Waldegrave, W. (2008). " George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe. 4 April 1918 – 22 February 2007". pp. 169. Digital object identifier: 10.1098/rsbm.2008.0004. With no estates to distract him, Jellicoe was free to re-join S. G. Warburg & Co. (1 October 1973), and with the help of Alan Lennox-Boyd, who was soon to retire from the board, he became a non-executive director of the sugar company Tate & Lyle in 1973, a position held until 1993. Thanks in the main to Sir Saxon Tate, and presumably because he had succeeded as chairman (until June 1978) of their subsidiary Tunnel Refineries, the family made him Tate & Lyle's first non-family chairman 1978–1983. Having revived and retrenched Tate & Lyle, Jellicoe became chairman of Booker Tate, 1988–91. In May 1973 Jellicoe admitted "some casual affairs" with call girls (from Mayfair Escorts) in the wake of an accidental confusion with Lord Lambton's prostitution scandal. [8] The name Jellicoe seems to have emerged as a result of a connection between Lambton, the madame Norma Levy, and a tenement house or community hall in Somers Town in the London district of St. Pancras called Jellicoe Hall or House, after Basil Jellicoe (1899–1935) the housing reformer, and priest. The word Jellicoe was seen in Levy's notebook, and a connection was assumed to the Minister rather than the building; a structure named after the earl's distant cousin, and one that may have been opened by the Admiral himself in June 1928. George Jellicoe. SAS and SBS Commander is not so much a traditional biography as a “life and times”-book. And what a life and what times! I don’t generally envy people who have been to war, but in George Jellicoe’s case I’ll make an exception. Thomas Harder. Author of Special Forces Hero. Anders Lassen VC, MCThanks to the son's research and his unique access to records and individuals, this is a first class biography of a significant post WW2 public figure - would that there were more like George! - and the men and women in his ambit. If you only read one recently published WW2-related biography, then make it this one! Peter Hore, Warships International Fleet Review

In 1929 he was a founding member of the Landscape Institute and from 1939 to 1949 he was its president. In 1948, he became the founding President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). From 1954 to 1968 he was a member of Royal Fine Art Commission and from 1967 to 1974 a Trustee of Tate Gallery. president of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) (and of the Institute of British Geographers (IBG) after amalgamation) 1993–1997; president of the Anglo-Hellenic League 1978–1986; president of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust 1987–1994; president of the UK Crete Veterans Association 1991–2001; president of the British Heart Foundation (BHF) 1992–1995; chancellor of Southampton University 1984–1995, and has been closely associated with research and higher education. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990. [1]Historic England. "Shute House(Grade II) (1146075)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 16 December 2014.

Lord Jellicoe remained an active member of the House of Lords for the rest of his life. He died on 22 February 2007, six weeks shy of his 89th birthday. The time in Government is preceded by a stint in the Foreign Service, with a posting to Washington, representing, appropriately enough, Balkan affairs, at the time when Philby and Maclean were also serving there. This leads the author to treat us to a synopsis of the Cambridge Spies, which adds little by way of illumination to the large corpus of work that has been published, leading one to conclude that the space might have been more profitably devoted to her subject. With a singular flair for contemporary or future trouble spots, Lord Jellicoe moves to Baghdad as Deputy General Secretary of the Baghdad Pact. It is affairs, or rather ‘affaires’ of a different kind which sees him sacrifice the Foreign Service for his love Philippa, now Lady Jellicoe. It is indeed a pity that Lorna Almonds Windmill has not managed to tease out more about the enormous influence that Philippa has been and is in George’s life, as it would have done much to explain their reaction to subsequent peccadilloes, which again saw his departure, this time as Leader of the House of Lords, from the Heath Government over meetings with Mayfair call girls.The author, appropriately a civil servant after service as a captain in the Army, is singularly qualified to write about George Jellicoe’s early years in the Special Air Service and Special Boat Service and his subsequent time in Government, and she has written equally eloquently about another founder of the SAS: her father Major ‘Gentleman Jim’ Almonds. Her passion for her subject does not, however, blind her to her critical faculties. She also does her subject justice by a delicious sense of self-deprecating humour.