References
- Portions of Sir Oswyn Murray's MS. have been scored through, indicating that he intended to revise it considerably. We reproduce, however, his first draft [Editor]
- 1925 . Sir Oswyn Murray's article was written about 1925. The 1921 Order in Council was rescinded by Order in Council of 5 November 1929. The constitution of the Board and the duties of its members are slightly different from what they were in [Editor]
- The Parliamentary Secretary was made a member of the Board by the 1929 Order in Council [Editor]
- At the end of the late war, the Cabinet decided that the Board of Trade should be responsible for taking up mercantile shipping for all Government services in time of peace. In time of war, however, the duties performed on behalf of the Navy would be too closely interlocked with other naval operations to be managed by another Department of State, and it has been arranged that the responsible Officer of the Board of Trade (the Director of Sea Transport) would act under the Admiralty in regard to such duties
- Sir Eric Geddes as First Lord in 1917 introduced a considerable improvement in this respect
- Life of Walpole. It is treated as such by Morley in his
- The Prime Minister (Mr Asquith) replying to Lord C. Beresford in the House of Commons on 24 November 1915 stated: “The collective responsibility of the Board of Admiralty continues to exist. The tradition has not been interrupted by the various Orders in Council which have been passed to define the individual responsibilities of the Board.”
- Note the different senses in which the term “responsibility” is used in this passage, corresponding to those distinguished in the course of the chapter
- 22 November 1770 . 22 November , “The first great and acknowledged object of national defence in this country, is to maintain such a superior naval force at home, that even the united fleets of France and Spain may never be masters of the Channel…. The second naval object with an English minister, should be to maintain at all times a powerful Western Squadron. In the profoundest peace it should be respectable; in war it should be formidable. Without it, the colonies, the commerce, the navigation of Great Britain, lie at the mercy of the House of Bourbon The third object indispensable, as I conceive, in the distribution of our navy, is to maintain such a force in the bay of Gibraltar as may be sufficient to cover that garrison, to watch the motions of the Spanish, and to keep open the communications with Minorca.” The Earl of Chatham on the Debate on the Seizure of Falkland's Islands
- 24 March 1903 . 24 March , Lord Selborne, House of Lords
- Pretyman Mr . 29 February 1904 . 29 February , House of Commons