Note: The Promotion of David Beatty to Rear-Admiral

Abstract

An interpretive reading by a management and organizational history scholar of what kind of forces were at play behind the exceptional promotion of David Beatty to rear-admiral on 1 January 1910.  This note aims to provide more nuanced considerations both of the question of why Beatty was promoted and to a lesser extent of who were the champions of this promotion.

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Filed under: Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Administration | Navies