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Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore, (23 December 1864 – 8 November 1940) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth from 1923 to 1926.

Naval career

Phillimore was born at Boconnoc in Cornwall on 23 December 1864, the son of Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore, and educated at Westminster School. He joined the Royal Navy in 1878,Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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on 1 January 1899. He was posted to on 27 March 1900, and joined her in the China Station where she took part in the response to the

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later in 1900. He was given command of in 1903 and then led the Naval Brigade Machine Guns in

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the next year. He was then given command of in 1907, in 1909 and the

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in 1911. Phillimore served in the First World War, resuming command of HMS ''Inflexible'' in 1914, and then as Principal Beach Master for the landings at Cape Helles in the Dardanelles in April 1915. He went on to be liaison officer to the Imperial Russian Headquarters in 1915 and commander of the

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of the Grand Fleet in 1916. He was then made Admiral commanding the Aircraft of the Grand Fleet in 1917, and took part in Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November that year. After the war, Phillimore was appointed President of the Postwar Questions Committee and then commanded the

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from 1920. He was made Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1923. He was First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George V from 1928, and retired in 1929. Phillimore is buried at

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in Hampshire.

Family

In 1905 he married Violet Turton; they had three sons and one daughter.

References

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