Allegiance United Kingdom Died 22 March 1950 Rank Vice admiral | Battles/wars First World War Battles and wars World War I Service/branch Royal Navy | |
Vice-Admiral Warren Hastings D'Oyly (3 August 1867 – 22 March 1950) was a British officer of the Royal Navy who saw service in the First World War.
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Early life and family
Warren Hastings D'Oyly was born on 3 August 1867, the third son of Warren Hastings D'Oyly, later tenth Baronet, who worked in the Bengal Civil Service, and his wife Henrietta Mary Halliday, a daughter of Sir Frederick James Halliday, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. He was baptised at Bhagalpur, Bengal on 24 November 1867.
In 1912, D'Oyly married Sylvia Agnes Alicia Hart, daughter of General Sir Reginald Clare Hart. They had one son: Lieutenant Reginald Clare Hastings D'Oyly (1918–1941), who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and died on 31 March 1941, while stationed on HMS Bonaventure, which was sunk south of Crete.
Naval career
D'Oyly was educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academys and enrolled in the Royal Navy on 15 January 1881. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1891, to commander on 26 June 1902, and to captain in 1908. He served in the South African War 1899–1902, in command of the composite gunboat HMS Thrush. Later in 1902 he took part in the Aro and River Niger Expeditions, followed by the Anglo-French expedition in 1905, and the Haitian insurrection of 1914, before serving in the First World War. By 1913, D'Oyly was the captain of HMS Lancaster, an armoured cruiser. By 1917, he was the captain of HMS Donegal, another armoured cruiser. After the conclusion of the First World War, D'Oyly was listed in the London Gazette as being one of the "Officers and Men ... brought to the notice of the Admiralty for valuable services in the prosecution of the War". He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1919 and vice-admiral in 1925.
D'Oyly died at Clare Mount in Broadstone, Dorset, on 22 March 1950. He left an estate worth over £2,000.