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|battles = First World War |battles_label= |awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath |relations = |laterwork = Poet, lecturer, author |signature = HopwoodSignature.jpg |signature_size = 250px }} Rear Admiral Ronald Arthur Hopwood CB (1868–1949) was a British naval officer and poet. He began his career in 1882 with the Royal Navy as a gunnery officer, completed it in 1919 as a rear admiral, and was acclaimed in 1941 as poet laureate of the Royal Navy by ''Time''. As an author, Admiral Hopwood's first work was his poem ''The Laws of the Navy'', published in 1896〔US Naval History & Heritage Command (2005).〕 when he was a lieutenant. With its good-natured military advice making it popular within both the Royal and U.S. navies,〔''Times'' (London, 1950).〕 ''Time'' gives it "precedence among Navy men even over Kipling's ''If''" and goes on to quote Hopwood's new poem ''Secret Orders'' in its entirety.〔 The last lines of ''Secret Orders'', written in appreciation of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement (a predecessor to Lend Lease), harken to the Second World War bond between the two navies. ==Early life== Hopwood was born on 7 December 1868 as the third son of John Turner Hopwood and he was educated at Cheam School.〔 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「Ronald Arthur Hopwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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