Reginald Bacon
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Admiral Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, KCB, KCVO, DSO (1863-1952) was a Royal Navy admiral. He retired from the Navy in 1909 as director of Naval Ordnance. From 1910 to 1914 he was managing director of the Coventry Ordnance Works. He returned to active service on the outbreak of World War I to command the Dover Patrol and was involved in the development of the North Sea Mine Barrage
He wrote Benin, the City of Blood (1897), describing the Benin Expedition. Bacon served as Intelligence Officer in this British naval campaign against the city of Benin.[1]
He wrote numerous other books, including biographies of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe and Jackie Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher.
Bacon was the first captain of the battleship Dreadnought and was closely associated with Fisher, and public revelation of exchanges between the two led to what was tantamount to Bacon's dismissal from the service in 1909.
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- ^ See a discussion Benin: The sack that was.
[edit] Published works
- Bacon, R H. The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone VOL 1 New York (1929): Doubleday. Facsimile edition (2007): ISBN 1432593625
- Bacon, R H. The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone VOL 2 New York (1929): Doubleday. Facsimile edition (2007): ISBN 143259351X
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