Hugh Tyrwhitt

Captain The Hon. Hugh Tyrwhitt (14 July 1856 – 26 October 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary. He was the father of noted aesthete and composer Lord Berners.

Born the son of Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, 3rd Baronet and Harriet Wilson, 12th Baroness Berners, Tyrwhitt served with the Naval Brigade in Sudan and took part in the Nile Expedition to relieve General Charles Gordon in 1884. Promoted to Captain in 1889, he was on 19 March 1900 appointed in command of the battleship HMS Renown, flag ship to Admiral Sir John Fisher, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. Fisher resigned from this position in June 1902 to become Second Sea Lord, and Tyrwhitt was succeeded as captain on the Renown by Arthur Murray Farquhar. Following Fisher′s recommendation, Tyrwhitt was later that year appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty. In 1905 he was again given command of the battleship HMS Renown and escorted the Duke and Duchess of York to India. He died two years later.