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George Atkinson-Willes
Admiral Sir George Lambart Atkinson-Willes, KCB (13 July 1847 – 25 December 1921) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.
==Naval career==
Educated at Leamington College and at Burney's Royal Naval Academy in Gosport,〔(The County Families of the United Kingdom or Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume ed.59, yr.1919 )〕 Atkinson-Willes joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1861〔(Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904-1945 )〕 and took part in the Abyssinian Expedition in 1868.〔(Dix Noonan Web )〕
Promoted to Captain in 1886,〔 he commanded HMS ''Comus'', HMS ''Indefatigable'', HMS ''Agamemnon'', HMS ''Hero'' and then HMS ''Howe''.〔 He was appointed Commodore commanding the Training Squadron in 1895 and then commanded the Dockyard Reserve at Chatham from 1898.〔 In 1901 he assumed the additional surname of Willes in compliance with the will of his uncle Admiral Sir George Ommanney Willes.〔 Later the same year he was promoted to Rear Admiral,〔 and in May 1902 he became Second-in-Command of the Home Fleet. He hoisted his flag on board the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS ''Resolution'' on 7 May 1902, as his flagship during the Coronation Fleet Review for King Edward VII. The following year, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.〔 He was at the head of a squadron of three ships which took part in the Somaliland Campaign in 1904.〔(Hermes Class light cruisers built before World War I )〕 He retired in 1912.〔
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