page_title: John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
section_title: Later war
hierarchical_section_title: John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe / First World War / Later war
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a study for IWM ART 1322. image: A head and shoulders portrait of Jellicoe wearing uniform.
context_page_description: Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO, SGM, DL was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War. His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial. Jellicoe made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port, at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain, but the public was disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a more dramatic victory given that they outnumbered the enemy. Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord, overseeing the expansion of the Naval Staff at the Admiralty and the introduction of convoys, but was relieved at the end of 1917. He also served as the Governor-General of New Zealand in the early 1920s.
context_section_description: Jellicoe was created Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa Flow on 7 March 1918.
  In June 1918, amidst concerns that—following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk—the Germans were about to requisition the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Lloyd George proposed Jellicoe as Allied Supreme Naval Commander in the Mediterranean. The French were in favour of a combined Allied naval command, but the Italians were not, so nothing came of the suggestion.
caption: John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, 1918, by Glyn Philpot
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