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Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins GCB (13 July 1834 – 29 September 1916) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. ==Naval career== Hopkins joined the Royal Navy in 1848.〔(William Loney RN )〕 Promoted to Captain in 1867, he commanded successively HMS ''Liverpool'', HMS ''Narcissus'', HMS ''Royal Adelaide'' and HMS ''Temeraire''.〔 He became Commander of HMS ''Excellent'', the Gunnery School at Portsmouth, in 1880.〔 In 1881 he became Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty and in 1883 he was made Captain-superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard and then Director of Heavy Ordnance.〔 He went on to be Admiral-superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard in 1886 and Junior Naval Lord and then Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1888.〔 He had the distinction in 1893 of parading his brigade of Royal Marines in New York in the first display of British military force in that City since the American Revolutionary War.〔(''The Third Montreal Field Battery : its origin and its services'' by Lt. Col. A. A. stevenson )〕 Promoted to Vice Admiral in 1891 Hopkins was appointed Commander-in-Chief, North American and West Indies Station later that year 〔(A Naval Appointment ) The Melbourne Argus, 15 September 1896〕 before being made Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet in 1897〔(News and Notes in Brief ) Evening Post, 1897, Page 2〕 during which tour he hosted a visit to Malta by the Kaisar Wilhelm II.〔(1898 - The German Kaiser in Malta (Michael Galea) ) German-Maltese Circle〕 He was a supporter of improvements in gunnery and at this time experimented with a new type of salvo firing.〔(Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era By Norman Friedman, A. D. Baker, p. 292 )〕 He retired as a full admiral in 1899〔 and was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1899 Birthday Honours. In 1903 he served on the Royal Commission responsible for examining the conduct of the Second Boer War.〔(The South African War ) Star , Issue 7794, 27 August 1903, Page 2〕 Hopkins predicted the threat from Zeppelins as the threat of World War I approached and lobbied for investment in aerial defence.〔(Wants $5,000,000 for Aerial Defence; Sir John Hopkins Suggests That England Vote That Sum for Security ) New York Times, 6 May 1913〕 He died in 1916.〔(Sir John Hopkins ) New York Times, 1 August 1916〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Ommanney Hopkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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