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See also:BERESFORD, See also:LORD See also:CHARLES See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM DE LA POER (1846- ) , See also:British See also:admiral, second son of the 4th See also:marquess of See also:Waterford, was See also:born in See also:Ireland, and entered the " Britannia " as a See also:naval See also:cadet in 1859. He became See also:lieutenant in 1868, and See also:commander in 1875. In 1874 he was returned to See also:parliament as Conservative M.P. for Waterford, retaining his seat till 1880, and he was already known in this See also:period as a gallant officer, with a See also:special See also:interest in naval See also:administration. In 1875-1876 he accompanied the then See also:prince of See also:Wales on his visit to See also:India as naval A.D.C.; from 1878 to 1881 he was commander of the royal yacht " See also:Osborne." He was in command of the gunboat " See also:Condor " in the Mediterranean when the See also:Egyptian crisis of 1882 occurred; and he became a popular See also:hero in See also:England in connexion with the See also:bombardment of See also:Alexandria (See also:July II), when he took his See also:ship See also:close in to the forts and engaged them with such conspicuous gallantry that the admiral ordered a special See also:signal " Well done, Condor! " He was promoted See also:captain for his services, and, after taking an active See also:part in the re-See also:establishment of See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order in Alexandria, he served again in See also:Egypt on Lord See also:Wolseley's See also:staff in the expedition of 1884-85, commanding the naval See also:brigade at See also:Abu Klea, Abu Kru and Metemmeh, and, with the See also:river steamer " Safieh," rescuing See also:Sir C. See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson and his party, who had been wrecked on returning from See also:Khartum (Feb. 4, 1885). In See also:November 1885 he was again returned to parliament as member for See also:East Marylebone (re-elected 1886), and in Lord See also:Salisbury's See also:ministry of 1886 he was appointed a lord of the See also:admiralty. The See also:press agitation in favour of a stronger See also:navy was now in full See also:swing, and it was well known that in Lord Charles Beresford it had an active supporter; but very little impression was made on the See also:government, and in 1888 he resigned his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office on this question, a dramatic step which had considerable effect. In the See also:House of See also:Commons he advocated an See also:expenditure of twenty millions See also:sterling on the See also:fleet, and the passing of the Naval See also:Defence See also:Act in 1889 was largely due to his See also:action. At the end of 1889 he became captain of the cruiser " Undaunted " in the Mediterranean, and when this ship was paid off in 1893 he was appointed in command of the See also:steam reserve at See also:Chatham, a See also:post he held for three years. In 1897 he became See also:rear-admiral, and again entered parliament, winning a by-See also:election at See also:York; he retained his seat till 1900, but was mainly occupied during these years by a See also:mission to See also:China on behalf of the Associated See also:Chambers of See also:Commerce; he published his See also:book The Break-up of China in 1899. In 1902 he was returned to parliament for See also:Woolwich, but resigned on his See also:appointment to command the Channel See also:squadron (1903-1905); in 1905 he was given the command of the Mediterranean fleet, and from 1906 to 1909 was commander-in-See also:chief of the Channel fleet; in roof) he became a full admiral. At See also:sea he had always shown himself a remarkable disciplinarian, possessed of See also:great See also:influence over his men, and his reputation as one who would, if necessary, prove a great fighting commander was second to none; and, even when serving afloat and therefore unable to speak See also:direct to the public, he was in the forefront of the See also:campaign for increased naval efficiency. During the administration (1903-1910) of Sir See also:John See also:Fisher (see FISHER, See also:BARON) as first sea lord of the admiralty it was notorious that considerable See also:friction existed between them, and both in the navy and in public a great See also:deal of party-spirit was engendered in the discussion of their opposing views. When Lord Charles Beresford's See also:term expired as commander-in-chief in See also:March 1909 he was finally "unmuzzled," and the attack which for some years his supporters had made against Sir J. Fisher's administration came to a See also:head at a moment coinciding with the new See also:shipbuilding crisis occasioned by the revelations as to the increase of the See also:German fleet. He himself came forward with proposals for a large increase in the navyand a reorganization of the administrative See also:system, his first step being a demand for an inquiry, to which the government promptly" assented (May) in the shape of a small See also:Committee under the See also:prime See also:minister. Its See also:report (See also:August), however, gave him no See also:satisfaction, and he proceeded with his public campaign, bitterly attacking the ministerial policy. In See also:January 1910, at the See also:general election, he was returned as Conservative M.P. for See also:Portsmouth; but meanwhile Sir John Fisher's term of office came to an end, and in his successor, Admiral Sir See also:Arthur Knyvet Wilson (b. 1842), the navy obtained a first sea lord who commanded universal confidence.
End of Article: BERESFORD, LORD CHARLES WILLIAM DE LA POER (1846- )
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