Captain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beatty,_1st_Earl_Beatty" id="mwAaY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty">David Beatty</a> is promoted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_admiral" id="mwAac" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rear admiral">Rear admiral</a>, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Royal_Family" id="mwAag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British Royal Family">Royal family</a> members) since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson" id="mwAak" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a>.<sup about="#mwt260" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-50"}}' id="cite_ref-50" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-50" id="mwAao" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 50;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAas">[50]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-50"><cite about="#mwt257" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFChalmers1951"><a href="./William_Scott_Chalmers" id="mwDoc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Scott Chalmers">Chalmers, William Scott</a> (1951). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jPIxAQAAIAAJ" id="mwDog" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwDok">The Life and Letters of David, Earl Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, P.C., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., D.S.O., D.C.L., LL. D.</i></a> Hodder and Stoughton.</cite><span about="#mwt257" class="Z3988" id="mwDoo" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Life+and+Letters+of+David%2C+Earl+Beatty%2C+Admiral+of+the+Fleet%2C+Viscount+Borodale+of+Wexford%2C+Baron+Beatty+of+the+North+Sea+and+of+Brooksby%2C+P.C.%2C+G.C.B.%2C+O.M.%2C+G.C.V.O.%2C+D.S.O.%2C+D.C.L.%2C+LL.+D.&amp;rft.pub=Hodder+and+Stoughton&amp;rft.date=1951&amp;rft.aulast=Chalmers&amp;rft.aufirst=William+Scott&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DjPIxAQAAIAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>