Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound was an English naval commander. He was born in 1877 and died in 1943. After becoming a Captain in 1914 he commanded the battleship Colossus at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, serving with distinction, after which he served at the Admiralty directing operations. He was promoted to rear-admiral and from 1936 to 1939 was Commander-In-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet during the periods of the Spanish War and the war in Abyssinia; in 1939 he was promoted Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord.