Charles Kingsmill

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Admiral

Sir Charles Kingsmill

CMG
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Born
Charles Edmund Kingsmill

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Guelph, Canada West (now Ontario)
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Portland, Ontario, Canada
AllegianceUnited Kingdom (1870–1908)
Canada (1909–1921)
Branch
Royal Navy
Royal Canadian Navy
Service years
1870–1921
Rank
Admiral
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Conflicts
Anglo-Sudanese War
Somaliland Campaign
First World War
AwardsKnight Bachelor
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy

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Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill, CMG (7 July 1855 – 15 July 1935) was a Canadian-born naval officer and the first director of the Department of the Naval Service of Canada. After retiring from a career in the Royal Navy, he played a prominent role in the establishment of the Canadian Naval Service in 1910. Along with Rear-Admiral Walter Hose, he is considered the father of the Royal Canadian Navy.[1]

Early life an education

Kingsmill was born at Guelph, Canada West (now Ontario) in 1855.[2] He was the son of John Juchereau Kingsmill, Crown Attorney for Wellington County, and Ellen Diana Grange. He was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto.[3]

Royal Navy career

In 1870, at age 14, Kingsmill joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman.[3] He was promoted sub-lieutenant in 1875, lieutenant in 1877, commander in 1891, and captain in 1898.[4] During his career in the Royal Navy, he commanded HM Ships Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. (1890–1891), Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. (1895), Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. (1895–1898), Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. (1900), Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. (1900–1903), Resolution, Majestic (1905–1906), and Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found..[citation needed]

Mildura served on the Australia Station in these years. During Kingsmill's command of the ship, she was part of the naval escort for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) to New Zealand aboard the chartered Royal liner HMS Ophir during 1901.[5] The following year, he was with Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. (flagship) and Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found., visiting Norfolk Island in July,[6] Suva, Fiji in August,[7] and Tonga in September.[8]

Kingsmill was given command of the battleship Dominion after her launching in 1905.[9] Dominion ran aground in Chaleur Bay on 16[10] or 19[9] August 1906, while on a good-will tour of the Canadian Atlantic coast. In his March 1907 court-martial, Kingsmill was severely reprimanded for "grave neglect of duty" (not being on the bridge at the time) and given command of the older battleship Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found..[10]

Royal Canadian Navy

In 1908, Kingsmill retired from the Royal Navy and returned to Canada.[11] He was appointed honorary aide-de-camp to His Excellency the Governor-General in 1909. At the behest of then prime minister Wilfrid Laurier, he accepted the post of director of the Marine Service in the Department of Marine and Fisheries under then Minister of Marine and Fisheries Louis-Philippe Brodeur.[12] The appointment predetermined his eventual appointment as rear-admiral and director of the Naval Service of Canada upon the formation of The Canadian Naval Service on 4 May 1910.[13][14] King George V designated Canada's naval forces as the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on August 29, 1911.By 1914, at the beginning of World War I, the new navy's fleet consisted of two old cruisers and a collection of converted civilian and commercial vessels.[4]

In 1913, he was promoted on the British Royal Navy’s retired list to vice-admiral,then to full admiral in 1917.[14] He was made a knight bachelor in 1918. He was awarded for outstanding services as the Director of Naval Services of Canada 1910–1921.

Kingsmill retired on 31 December 1921. He maintained a summer home on Grindstone Island, in Big Rideau Lake, near Portland, Ontario, where he loved to sail. His guests included the Duke of Devonshire, Governor General of Canada from 1916 to 1921; Sir William MacKenzie, railway entrepreneur; and Neville Chamberlain, later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937–1940. When he died at Grindstone Island on 15 July 1935, a "huge flotilla of boats brought him in from the island"[15]

Kingsmill is buried in the Anglican cemetery in Portland, where an Ontario Heritage Trust plaque commemorates his contribution to Canadian naval history.[16]

Family

Kingsmill and his wife, Constance, were prominent figures in Ottawa's social life. She was active in various causes, including as a supporter of birth control. They lived in a large stone house which they named "Ballybeg" on Crescent Road in Rockcliffe, which was designed for them during World War I by Montreal architect H. C. Stone. When the house was built, Rockcliffe was outside city limits, and raising chickens and cattle was permitted. Since 1970, the house has been occupied by Tunisia's ambassadors to Canada.[17]

Kingsmill's cousin, Colonel Walter Bernard Kingsmill, the son of Admiral Kingsmill's uncle, Nicol Kingsmill, was head of the 10th Royal Grenadiers and led the 123rd Battalion on the front lines in France during the First World War.

Kingsmill's daughter Diana was an Olympic athlete and journalist, who married historian J. F. C. Wright.

Legacy

Kingsmill House is named for him. The junior officer quarters building at Venture NOTC, the Canadian Naval Officer Training Centre, is named after him.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Kingsmill House display, Maritime Command Museum, CFB Halifax
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Whitby, Michael; Gimblett, Richard H. & Haydon, Peter (21 January 2006). "one". The Admirals: Canada's Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century. Dundurn. ISBN 978-1-4597-1249-2.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Butts, Ed (3 May 2018). "Guelph's Charles Kingsmill a father of the Royal Canadian Navy". Guelph Mercury.
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gimblett, Richard H. (2009). The Naval Service of Canada, 1910–2010: The Centennial Story. Dundurn. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4597-1322-2.
  5. ^ Bastock, p. 101
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  9. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Johnston, William; Rawling, William G. P.; Gimblett, Richard H. & MacFarlane, John (2011). The Seabound Coast: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867–1939. Dundurn. p. 105. ISBN 9781554889082.
  10. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Davison, Robert L. (October 2009). "A Most Fortunate Court Martial: The Trial of Captain Charles Kingsmill, 1907" (PDF). Northern Mariner. 19. Canadian Nautical Research Society.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Milner, Marc (2010). Canada's Navy The First Century (2nd ed.). University of Toronto Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-8020-9604-3.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Graves, Donald E.; Jenson, L. B. & Johnson, Christopher (2003). In peril on the sea: the Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic. R. Brass Studio. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-896941-32-5.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.German, Tony (1990). The Sea is at our Gates—The History of the Canadian Navy. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Press. pp. 26. ISBN 9780771032691.
  14. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Parkinson, Jonathan (2018). The Royal Navy, China Station: 1864–1941: As seen through the lives of the Commanders in Chief. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-78803-521-7.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hrebecka, Paulina (26 August 2019). "Portland historical society honours founding father of Royal Canadian Navy". Smiths Falls Record News.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill 1855–1935". Ontario's Historical Plaques. Ontario Heritage Trust. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roston, Margo (23 June 2015). "A home called Ballybeg". Diplomat & International Canada. Retrieved 27 September 2019.

References

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