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...John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe, Wartime Commander of the British Grand Fleet, underwent in London an operation on his upper jaw bone...
...office] Monday, Dec. 2." His father's oak-paneled office in the Standard Oil building (No. 26 Broadway) looks down from 20 stories into New York Harbor. The work done there consists chiefly in administering the billion-dollar Rockefeller fortune. Rev. Basil Jellicoe, cousin of Earl Jellicoe (John Rushworth) (Commander of the British grand fleet during the War), applied for a license to open in London a "pub" (public house) called "The Anchor."* "I hope to operate it to show how public houses can and should be run. I think we should make a profession of the publican...
...Washington Treaty ratio became the theme of many a jest. When U. S. Chief Delegate Gibson and British Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe returned from an informal golf match they waggishly remarked that their scores were "in the 5-5 ratio...
...John Rushworth Jellicoe was born in 1859, joined the British Navy 13 years later. Sir John Jellicoe commanded the British Grand Fleet (1914-1916), and while personally worshiped by British tars, was considered by some experts to have let the German fleet slip through his fingers at the battle of Jutland (1916). Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa became Admiral of the Fleet in 1919. In 1920 he was sent as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief to New Zealand, returning in 1924, to be created, in 1925 Viscount Brocas of Southampton and Earl Jellicoe...