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Arthur Wilson (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, 3rd Baronet (4 March 1842 – 25 May 1921) was a Royal Navy officer. He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War and then the Mahdist War being awarded the Victoria Cross during the Battle of El Teb in February 1884. He went on to command a battleship, the torpedo school and then another battleship before taking charge of the Experimental Torpedo Squadron. He later commanded the Channel Fleet. He briefly served as First Sea Lord but in that role he "was abrasive, inarticulate, and autocratic" and was really only selected as Admiral Fisher's successor because he was a supporter of Fisher's reforms. Wilson survived for even less time than was intended by the stop-gap nature of his appointment because of his opposition to the establishment of a Naval Staff. Appointed an advisor at the start of World War I, he advocated offensive schemes in the North Sea including the capture of Heligoland and was an early proponent of the development and use of submarines in the Royal Navy.
==Early career==
Born the son of Rear-Admiral George Knyvet Wilson and Agnes Mary Wilson (née Yonge), Wilson was educated at Eton College before he joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman aboard the second-rate in 1855.〔Heathcote, p. 265〕 He was present at the Battle of Kinburn in October 1855 during the Crimean War.〔 He was transferred to fourth-rate HMS ''Raleigh'' on the China Station in September 1856 and then, following the loss of the ''Raleigh'' near Hong Kong, transferred to the second-rate HMS ''Calcutta'' and saw action in command of a gun in the naval brigade at the Battle of Canton in December 1857 and then at the Battle of Taku Forts in May 1858 during the Second Opium War.〔 He was appointed to the steam frigate HMS ''Topaze'' on the Pacific Station in September 1859 and was promoted to lieutenant on 11 December 1861.〔 After a tour in the steam frigate HMS ''Gladiator'', he joined the gunnery school HMS ''Excellent'' at Portsmouth in April 1865.〔 He became an instructor at the new Imperial Japanese Naval Academy at Yokohama in Japan in May 1867 and then at the new training ship HMS ''Britannia'' in January 1869.〔
Wilson became a member of the committee investigating the effectiveness of the Whitehead torpedo and was involved in its trials in 1870.〔 He became gunnery officer in the training ship HMS ''Caledonia'' in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1871 and first lieutenant in the steam frigate HMS ''Narcissus'' in October 1872.〔 Promoted to commander on 18 September 1873, he became second-in-command in the new steam frigate HMS ''Raleigh'' in January 1874.〔Heathcote, p. 266〕
In 1876 Wilson became commander and chief of staff at the new torpedo school , where his duties included rewriting torpedo manuals, inventing aiming apparatus and developing mine warfare.〔
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