Jellicoe, << JEL ih koh, >> John Rushworth (1859-1935), was a British naval officer during World War I (1914-1918). He commanded the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, the only time the main British and German fleets met in combat. The battle’s result was controversial. Although the British suffered greater damage, the German fleet never again contested British control of the North Sea. Jellicoe then directed the campaign against German submarine warfare until December 1917. See Jutland, Battle of .
Jellicoe was born on Dec. 5, 1859, in Southampton, England. He served in Egypt in 1882 and in the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. Jellicoe was knighted in 1907 and was made a member of the British nobility in 1918. He served as governor general of New Zealand from 1919 to 1924. He became Earl Jellicoe in 1925. He died on Nov. 20, 1935.
