Palmerston, Lord, 203 Parker, Sir Hyde, 66 Parsons, Sir Charles, 249 Pepys, Samuel, 111 Perrin, Mr. W. G., 111 Petersen, Mr., 119 Phillips, Mr. J. F., 111 Pitt, Mr., 18, 36, 203 Plumer, General, 32, 172, 174 Pohl, Admiral von, 29 _et seq._ Pohl, Frau von, 30–32, 105 Polsonare family, the, 152 Pope, the, and Abdul Hamid, 91 _et seq._ Probyn, Sir Dighton, 20 Q Queen Alexandra, 12, 20, 198, 238 Queen Victoria, 156, 157 R Rawlinson, Sir Henry, 119 Redesdale, Lord, letter to Lord Fisher, 14 Reich, Herr von, on “Dreadnoughts,” 14 _et seq._ Reid, Sir George, 199 Reval, 231 _et seq._ Rhodes, Cecil, 34, 35 Richmond, Captain, 104 Ridley, Bishop, 120 Roberts, Lord, 53, 183 Roch, Mr. W. F., 62 Rodney, Admiral, 163 Roon, Count von, 229 Roosevelt, Mr., 23 Rosebery, Lord, 27, 44, 49, 55, 138, 158, 162, 248 Rothschild, Lord, 244 Rousseau, M., 187 Rozhdestvensky, Admiral, 107 Runciman, Mr. Walter, 44 Russia, Emperor of, 191, 251 S St. Vincent, Lord, 181 Salisbury, Lord, 94, 204 Sampson, Admiral, 225 Samuel, Mr. Herbert, 42 Samuel, Sir Marcus, 116 Sanders, Marshal Liman von, 85, 97 Scapa Flow, 31 Schreiner, Mr. G. A., 84 Schwab, Mr., 270 Schwartzhoff, Gross von, 105, 106, 212 Scott, Mr. Robert Falconer, 163 _n._ Scott, Sir Percy, 248, 249 Seely, General, 216 Selborne, Lord, 170, 245, 246 Shipbuilding, new, inaugurated by Lord Fisher, 86 _et seq._ Sinclair, Commodore Hugh Paget, 267 Slade, General F. G., 174, 175 Smith, Sir F. E., 183 Smith, Sir Thomas, 250 Smith-Dorrien, General, 169, 172, 174 Some Personalities, 242 _et seq._ Southey, 249 Special Missions, some, 229 et seq. Spee, Admiral von, 36, 78, 135, 136, 283 Spencer, Lord, 242, 244, 245 Stead, Mr. W. T., 35, 170, 171, 197, 249, 262, 263, 264 Stolypin, M., 187, 231, 236–237 Stopford, Sir F., 172 Submarines, Lord Fisher’s Memorandum on, 88–90 Swift, Dean, 276 T Taft, Mr., 202 Tall, Isaac, 151 Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, 114 Tennyson-D’Eyncourt, Sir Eustace, 257–259 Thomas, Mr. Holt, 125, 126 Thompson, Mr., 224 Thomson, Sir William, _see_ Kelvin, Lord Tirpitz, Admiral von, 16, 29 _et seq._, 97, 184 Togo, Admiral, 107 Treves, Sir Frederick, 249–251 Troubridge, Sir Thomas, 155, 161 Tryon, Sir George, 146 Tweedmouth, Lord, 5 Tyrwhitt, Sir Reginald Yorke, 170 V Villa Vieja, Marquis de, 233 W Walker, Sir Charles, 111 Warburton, Eliot, 27 War Council Meetings, Lord Fisher’s notes of his special intervention at, 78 _et seq._ Ward, Sir Joseph, 193 Warren, Sir Herbert, 283 Washington, George, 223, 226 Watts, Dr., 114 Watts, Sir Philip, 187, 257–259 Weymouth, Admiral, 122 White, Mr. Arnold, 263 White, Sir William, 95 Wilmot, Admiral Sir S. Eardley, letter to Lord Fisher, 129 Wilson, Mr. A. K., 199, 206