If Admiral Sir John Jellicoe had been born in 1858 instead of a year later, he would have first opened his eyes on this now sorely troubled world on the Centenary of Nelson's natal day. But the gods timed his arrival exactly one hundred and one years later, and it was on the cold and blustering dawn of December the 5th, 1859, that Captain John H. Jellicoe was informed of the happy event. How happy for the Empire, as well as for himself and his wife, the gallant Captain little dreamed at the time. Southampton was Jellicoe's birthplace, and he came of the race that the sea breeds. His father, who only died in the autumn of 1914 at the age of ninety, was Commodore of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company until he retired from active service at the age of seventy years--still a young man. He then became a director of the Company and took an active part in its affairs almost until the day of his death. Though as British as the seas which christened the Admiral of the Fleet and the Guardian of our Empire, Sir John Jellicoe's name is derived from the French, and it is probable that the family originally was of French extraction:--"Admiral Sir John Jellicoe serait, parâite il d'origine française, et descendrait d'une famille protestante emigrée à la Révocation de l'édit de Nantes, et son Nom indiquerait son origine. Jellicoe serait une sorte de contraction de Angélycois, nom des habitants de St. Jean d'Angely." Gentilcorps--anglicized Noblebody--would be the modern French equivalent. There is an English surname somewhat similar, "Handsomebody," a name that was found on the Honours List some five or six years ago. Jellicorse is another form of Sir John's name, and it is doubtless from this that one of the nicknames has been derived which is popular among the men of the Fleet--Jellymould. Admiral Patton, Second Sea Lord at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar, was Jellicoe's great grandfather; it is something of a coincidence that at the outbreak of the present World-War Admiral Jellicoe was also Second Sea Lord. Jellicoe's youngest daughter is called Prudence Patton, and Prudence Patton served King Charles II. faithfully in the troubles and wars that filled that unfortunate monarch's reign. Like all popular men in the Service--with the sole exception of Admiral May, who, though loved and respected by everyone, has, like the Springtime, been always "May"--Sir John can boast a multitude of nicknames. "Jacky-Oh!" "Hell Fire Jack!" (owing to the revolution he made in Naval gunnery), "All-Jelly" (reminiscent of Epsom Race Course on Derby Day, but again due probably to the deadly effect of his ship's gunnery), "The Little Admiral" (this in polite society), "Silent Jack" and "Dreadnought Jack." Jellicoe, as everyone connected with the Navy knows, was a Dreadnought man, and one of Lord Fisher's most enthusiastic pupils.