Matthew Best

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Admiral The Honourable Sir Matthew Robert Best KCB DSO CVO (18 June 1878 – 13 October 1940) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station.

Naval career

Best joined the Royal Navy in around 1895. He served in World War I and fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 as Flag Captain to the Commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet. He was appointed Commanding Officer of HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1919 and Commanding Officer HMS Nelson and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet in 1927, before becoming Commander of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet in 1929. He was made Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1931 and Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station in 1937.

He died in 1940 at Frampton in Dorset.