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Mountbatten, Louis ___ 1900-1979 ___
British ___ sailor civilservant
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Mountbatten was born in Windsor
Castle, the second son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess
Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine. Educated at royal naval colleges at Osborne
and Dartmouth, he served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. During
the war, King George V changed the name of the Royal House to Windsor, and,
at the same time, asked those of his relatives who were British but known
by German names and titles to relinquish use of them. Thus, the head of
the House of Battenberg adopted the surname of Mountbatten and was raised
to the peerage. As the younger son of a marquess, the Louis was accordingly
known as Lord Louis Mountbatten. Between the wars, he pursued his naval
career with a variety of postings but specialised in communications. In
the early 1920s, he accompanied the Prince of Wales, his second cousin,
on two tours to Australasia and Asia. In 1922, Lord Louis married
Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley. The couple had two daughters. During the
Second World War, Lord Louis commanded the 5th Destroyer Flotilla and became
Chief of Combined Operations. In 1943, he was appointed Supreme Allied Commander,
South East Asia Command with the rank of acting Admiral. After the war he
was ennobled as Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, appointed a Privy Councillor,
and subsequently given a peerage as Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron
Romsey. In 1947, he became Viceroy of India. After partition, he remained
as Governor-General until 1948. Thereafter, he was promoted to Admiral of
the Fleet, the highest rank in the Royal Navy, and served as Chief of the
Defence Staff between 1959 and 1965. He was murdered by the Provisional
IRA in 1979 while on holiday in Ireland.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1921-1979 ___ military political
travel society royalty historyeye NewZealand Australia India Japan
WEB TEXT LINKS
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
University
of Southampton Libraries ___ possibly
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten,
1920-1922: Tours with the Prince of Wales
Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1943-1946
From Shore to Shore: The Final Years: The Diaries of Earl Mountbatten of
Burma, 1953-1979
October 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |