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|battles = |awards = Baronetcy Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |relations = |laterwork = }} Admiral Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, (1755–1824), was a long-serving and at the time controversial officer of the British Royal Navy who saw extensive service in his career, but also courted controversy with several of his actions. Bertie won recognition for unsuccessfully defending his ship against superior odds in the American Revolutionary War. He was later criticised however for failing to close with the enemy at the Glorious First of June and later for pulling rank on a subordinate officer just days before the capture of the French island of Mauritius and taking credit for the victory. Despite these controversies, Bertie was rewarded for his service with a baronetcy and the Order of the Bath, retiring in 1813 to his country estate at Donnington, Berkshire. ==American Revolutionary War== Albemarle Bertie was born in 1755, the natural son of Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and much of his childhood is undocumented. It is not even clear when he entered the Navy, although he was gazetted lieutenant in December 1777 aged 22, quite a bit older than most of his contemporaries. Within a year of promotion, Bertie had witnessed combat on the repeating frigate at the First Battle of Ushant, a brief and inconclusive action which resulted in a court martial for Admiral Hugh Palliser, a court martial at which Commander Bertie (as he by then was), was called on to give evidence in 1779.〔 The intervening two years had been highly eventful, Bertie spending most of it as a prisoner of war in France after ''Fox'' had been taken by the larger French on 11 September 1778.〔 Following his exchange and appearance as a witness, Bertie spent two years without a ship, due to the shortage of available positions for young officers during the American Revolutionary War. On 21 March 1782,〔Marshall (1823), pp.195–198〕 after a change of government, Bertie was reinstated and made captain〔 of the 24-gun frigate stationed in the Channel,〔 serving in her until June. He remained on half-pay throughout the 1780s, marrying Emma Heywood of Maristow House in Devon on 1 July 1783,〔〔 and having three children: Lyndsey James, Emma and Louisa Frances.〔 His wife Emma predeceased him,〔 dying in March 1805.〔 He briefly commanded the frigate between October and December 1787.〔 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「Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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