Talk:Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss

Picture Date
I dispute the date the photo displayed in this article was taken. The picture shows Lord Wester Wemyss wearing the insignia of a Captain. In 1919 he was an Admiral and later promoted to Admiral of the Fleet, therefore the picture must have been taken years earlier.


 * The date in the smaller photo has been amended to 1910. Dormskirk (talk) 23:04, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

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Lloyd George's Revenge
The article states:

"Lloyd George took his revenge by seeing that Wemyss was given a barony instead of a earldom, and the £100,000 grant given to all the most senior U.K. military leaders at the end of hostilities was withheld."

Here is the text of a letter of mine which was published in The Daily Telegraph in November 2018, just after the Centenary of the Armistice. Even a cursory glance at the Wikipedia articles of all concerned (helpfully linked to by me) shows that the above claim is nonsense. Why this myth keeps doing the rounds is a mystery.

SIR – Lord Lexden (Letters, November 2) says that Admiral of the Fleet Lord Wester Wemyss “did not receive the £100,000 grant awarded to other service chiefs, and, while they were given earldoms, he got a mere barony, for which he was made to wait a year”. In August 1919, grants of £100,000 were made to the principal military and naval commanders-in-chief, Sir Douglas Haig and Sir David Beatty, both of whom also received earldoms. Sir Henry Wilson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Sir Hugh Trenchard, the Chief of the Air Staff, received £10,000. Frederick Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff at the Armistice, received nothing. Wilson and Trenchard were also granted baronetcies (not earldoms) in December 1919, a month after Wemyss received his “mere barony” and was specially promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet. Simon Harley Workington, Cumbria

Unless someone objects I'll remove the claim. &mdash;Simon Harley (Talk). 15:04, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I can see your point. Fine with me to remove the claim. Best wishes, Dormskirk (talk) 15:17, 14 November 2022 (UTC)