David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, English admiral (died 1936)

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

Royal Navy officer (1871–1936)

Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Mahdist War and then the response to the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded the Battle Cruiser Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after…