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John William Leopold McClintock CB DSO (26 July 1874 – 23 March 1929) was a Royal Navy officerwho became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Naval career
Born the son of Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, McClintock joined the Royal Navy in 1887. He held the rank of lieutenant when in June 1902 he was posted to serve as first and gunnery lieutenant on the protected cruiser HMS Andromeda, flag ship of the Cruiser division of the Mediterranean Fleet.
He served in World War I, during which he commanded the battleship HMS Lord Nelson at the Gallipoli landings and, then from July 1916, commanded the battleship HMS Dreadnought followed by, from December 1916, the battleship HMS King George V. He became Commodore at the Royal Navy Barracks at Portsmouth in 1920, Director of Naval Artillery and Torpedo at the Admiralty in 1919 and Director of the Mobilisation Department at the Admiralty in 1923. He went on to be Commander of the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron in 1924 and President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich early in 1929 before his death a few months later.