Admiral Sir Hugh Justin Tweedie KCB (5 April 1877 – 20 August 1951) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served in the First and Second World War.

Promoted to lieutenant he received his first command, the governor's paddle yacht Countess of Derby for an operation on the Bumpeh River in Sierra Leone.

The detachment managed to get lost and Tweedie led a second native militia in a successful operation against the rebel position.

Tweedie's next posting was the destroyer Flying Fish, the cruiser Minerva and then the new battleship Albion in China.

Approaching the St Lawrence River, a distress call was received from RMS Empress of Ireland which had collided with a collier.

Essex was three hours away at full steam only to arrive in time to pick up bodies as Empress of Ireland had sunk.

In 1916, Tweedie was appointed to another monitor, Sir Thomas Picton, seeing action in the Mediterranean Sea around Salonica and the Dardanelles.

It fell to him at the end of hostilities to lead out all his destroyer flotillas to meet the German High Seas Fleet and escort them into the Firth of Forth.

The ships were spread out on a front of five miles (8.0 km) to ensure the German fleet that was steaming towards them was not missed in the dark.

His command stretched from the Cape of Good Hope up both the east and west coasts of Africa to the equator.

Hugo who followed his fathers into the navy was awarded DSC 1942 as commander of HMS Tynedale during the St Nazaire Raid.

Vere Tweedie who served in the Gold Coast Regiment of Royal West African Frontier Force awarded MC in 1945 during an action behind Japanese lines on the Tamandu to An road in the Arakan Burma.