Question: who was the strategic thinker and naval war college professor who developed the theory of sea power
Answer: Sir Julian Stafford Corbett ( 12 November 1854 at Walcot House , Kennington Road , Lambeth -- 21 September 1922 at Manor Farm , Stopham , Pulborough , Sussex ) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries , whose works helped shape the Royal Navy 's reforms of that era .