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REAR-ADMIRAL A. G. N. WYATT, who succeeds Sir John Edgell, was born in 1893, being twelve years younger than his immediate predecessor. It is interesting to note that he is the first Hydrographer to enter the Navy after the withdrawal of H.M.S. Britannia, and, consequently, through the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth. He had the distinction of being selected as a chief cadet captain of his term, evidence that at an early age he displayed those qualities of leadership and character so noticeable in later life, and the award of the Royal Humane Society's medal for life-saving in a yachting disaster, when only in his early teens, was indicative of his courage and powers of endurance. He went to sea as a midshipman in 1910. During the War of 1914–18, he served in destroyers and in the battleship Prince of Wales as a watch-keeper, and, during the last year of the War, in command of a destroyer. As a young lieutenant, he was an expert boat-sailer, at which he excelled, even in a profession where a high standard of proficiency in that art is anticipated. It was not until 1918 that he decided, on joining H.M.S. Melisande as a fourth class assistant surveyor, to devote his life to that service of which he was destined, twenty-seven years later, to become the head.
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Rear-Admiral A. G. N. Wyatt. Nature 155, 628 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155628b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155628b0