RETIRED ADMIRAL
CENSOR DURING WAR SIR D. BROWNRIGG DEAD (Received February 15, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 14 The death is announced of Rear-Ad-miral Sir Douglas Brownrigg. Sir Douglas Brownrigg, 4th baronet, was born in July, 1867. He entered the Navy in 1881 ami retired with the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1919. Ho was chief censor at the Admiralty from the commencement of the Great War.
Sir Douglas was a director of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. He married in 1896 Beatrice, daughter of the late Sir C. ClementiSmiti, and authoress of "The Life and Letters of Sir John Moore." The heir to the baronetcy is their son Gawen Egremont Brownrigg, born on January 15, 1911, who married the Baroness Lucia von Borosini of Pasadena, California, in 1931.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 13
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128RETIRED ADMIRAL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 13
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