Lord Herbert Kitchener

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC (24th June 1850 - 5th June 1916), was an Irish-born British Field Marshal and proconsul who won fame for his imperial campaigns and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War, although he died halfway through it. He died in 1916 near the Orkney Islands when the warship taking him to negotiations in Russia was sunk by a German mine.