'A Difficult Person to Tackle': Some recently discovered papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Gerard Noel, GCB, KCMG.

The article focuses on the discovery of papers belonging to British Royal Navy officer Gerard Henry Uctred Noel. The author explains that the documents have been divided into seven time periods and analyzes the last three in terms of British naval history. They include 1893 to 1903, when Noel was Junior Sea Lord, Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet and Superintendent, Naval Reserves and Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, 1904 to 1906, when Noel was Commander-in-Chief, China Station, and 1906 to 1909, when Noel was Commander-in-Chief, the Nore.