Consett, Montagu William Warcop Peter 1871-

Epithet: Rear-Admiral CMG

Montagu W. Consett (1871-1945) served in the British Navy from 1884 to 1921, including service as attaché́ in Norway and Sweden (1912-1919) and Denmark (1912-1917). He was also Naval Advisor to the Supreme Allied Council in Paris and the Council of Ambassadors and British naval representative on the Inter-Allied Committee of Versailles, 1920. He authored The triumph of unarmed forces (1914-1918): an account of the transactions by which Germany during the great war was able to obtain supplies prior to her collapse under the pressure of economic forces (London: Williams and Norgate, 1923). Cf. Who's who in Yorkshire (North & East Ridings), 1935.

The H.M.S. Sultan was a broadside ironclad of the Royal Navy, first launched in 1870, and used in various forms of service until 1947. The H.M.S. Boadicea was a Bacchante class iron-screw corvette in the service of the Royal Navy from 1875 to 1905.