KEYES, SIR ROGER JOHN BROWNLOW, 1ST BART.
cr. 1919 (1872— ), British admiral, was born Oct. 4, 1872 and entered the navy in 1885. He took part in the Vitu expedition in 1890 and for his service in China in 1900 was promoted com mander. From 1905 to 1907 he served as naval attache at Rome, Vienna, Athens and Constantinople, and in 1912 was appointed commodore in charge of the submarine service. During the World War he took part in the battle of Heligoland Bight, Aug. and in the Cuxhaven raid. In 1915 he became chief of staff to Admiral de Robeck, in command of the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron in the Dardanelles. He was promoted rear-admiral in 1917, appointed director of plans at the Admiralty and later took command of the Dover Patrol. In this capacity he directed the naval raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend, April 23, 1918. He com manded the battle cruiser squadron of the Atlantic Fleet from 1919 until 1921 when he was promoted vice-admiral and became deputy-chief of the naval staff. In 1925 he was appointed com mander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Station. Keyes, who held
cassian race, but nothing is known about his birth and parentage. In early boyhood he was sold by a Tunisian slave-dealer to Hamuda Pasha, then bey of Tunis, who gave him his freedom and a French education. He advised the three beys—Ahmet (1837), Mohammed (1855) and Sadok (1859)—in the liberal measures which distinguished their successive reigns. He later left Tunis, and entered the service of the sultan Abdul Hamid, who gave him a seat on the Turkish Reform Commission then sitting at Tophane. Early in 1879 the sultan appointed him grand vizier, and he prepared a scheme of constitutional government, but Abdul Hamid refused to have anything to do with it. Khaireddin re signed on July 28, 1879. More than once the sultan offered him anew the grand vizierate, but Khaireddin persistently refused it. He died on Jan. 3o, 1890, practically a prisoner in his own house.