Lewis Clinton-Baker

Admiral Sir Lewis Clinton-Baker KCB KCVO CBE (16 March 1866 – 12 December 1939) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.

Clinton-Baker joined the Royal Navy in 1879[1] He took part in the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 and went to command HMS Gibraltar during the Second Boer War.

[3] He served in World War I as Captain of HMS Hercules, which he commanded at the Battle of Jutland in 1916,[4] and then as Captain of HMS Benbow from later that year; he then took responsibility for laying a mine barrage across the North Sea[1] from a base at Grangemouth.

[5] He became Second-in-Command of the Second Battle Squadron in 1919, Admiral Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard in 1920[6] and Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1921.

[7] In 1925 he was made Admiral commanding the Reserves[8] and in 1927 he retired.