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"ROSSLYN ERSKINE WEMYSS WESTER WEMYSS, 1ST Baron (1864-), British admiral, was born in London April 12 1864, the 3rd and posthumous son of James Hay Erskine Wemyss of Wemyss Castle, Fife. He entered the navy in 1877, was promoted lieutenant 1887, commander 1898, captain 1901, rear-admiral of 2nd Battle Squadron 1912-3, and of the 3rd fleet 1914, vice-admiral 1916 and admiral of the fleet 1919. He commanded a squadron during the landing of the British troops in Gallipoli (1915), was commander-in-chief in the East Indies and Egypt (1916-7), Second, and shortly afterward First Sea Lord of the Admiralty (1917-9), and member of the War Cabinet (1918). He was created K.C.B. (1916), G.C.B. (1918), and raised to the peerage (1919).