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The First Lord was not always a permanent member of the board until the Admiralty Department was established as an official government department in 1709 [3] with the First Lord as its head; it replaced the earlier Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs. [4]
The president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was a member of the Cabinet. After 1806, the First Lord of the Admiralty was always a civilian, while the professional head of the navy came to be (and is still today) known as the First Sea Lord. [16] Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (1628–1964)
Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, PC (1653 – 26 November 1727) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer at the Battle of Solebay during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, he served as a captain in the Mediterranean Sea in operations against the Barbary pirates.
Instead, Alexander became First Lord of the Admiralty, the only Labour member to hold this position as a cabinet rank. The Admiralty was a political power in its own right, and usually able to resist pressure from the Treasury and from Downing Street.
On 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany, Chamberlain reappointed Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and he joined Chamberlain's war cabinet. [283] Churchill was a highest-profile minister during the so-called "Phoney War".
Admiral Sir Charles Wager PC (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1733 to 1742. . Despite heroic active service and steadfast administration and diplomatic service, Wager can be criticized for his failure to deal with an acute manning prob
Howe received instructions from Augustus Keppel, the new First Lord of the Admiralty to proceed to Portsmouth and take command of the Channel Fleet which he did in April 1782. [7] Promoted to full admiral on 8 April 1782, [22] he was created Viscount Howe in the Peerage of Great Britain on 20 April 1782. [23] Howe's task was complex.
Hawke then retired from active duty, becoming Rear-Admiral of Great Britain on 4 January 1763 [36] and Vice-Admiral of Great Britain on 5 November 1765. [37] He was made First Lord of the Admiralty in the Chatham Ministry in December 1766 [38] and promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 15 January 1768. [25]