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Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 1900 –1979), was a British statesman, and naval officer]], and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of of the independent India (1947–48). From 1954 until 1959 he was First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier. Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence Staff until 1965, making him the longest serving professional head of the British Armed Forces to date.
In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA, who planted a bomb in his fishing boat, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.[1] He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the decline of the British Empire in the mid to late 20th century. Prime Minister Anthony Eden termed him 'a congenital liar'.[2]
References
- ↑ The Long War by Brendan O'Brien (ISBN 978-0-8156-0319-1), page 55
- ↑ Roberts, Andrew 'Eminent Churchillians', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1994 p133
