Lord Mountbatten
/ˌlɔːd maʊntˈbætn/
/ˌlɔːrd maʊntˈbætn/
- born Louis Mountbatten (1900-79) a British admiral (= senior navy officer) who during the Second World War commanded the Allied forces in South-East Asia. He was the last viceroy of India before it became independent, and remained there for a year as its first Governor General. He was killed while sailing off the west coast of Ireland by a bomb put on his boat by the IRA. Lord Mountbatten was a great- grandson of Queen Victoria, and the uncle of Prince Charles. He became an earl in 1947. see also the Allies