Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-79). British naval commander, a great grandson of Queen Victoria. His father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, adopted the name of Mountbatten in 1917. Mountbatten served in the Royal Navy in both World Wars. As supreme commander for south-east Asia (1943-46) he successfully led the recapture of Burma from the Japanese. He then played a major part in the transfer of power to India and Pakistan, and their partition, as the last viceroy of India (1947). In 1979 he was murdered while on his annual holiday in Ireland, when his boat was blown up by a bomb planted by IRA terrorists.
