Ernest Troubridge [SEP] educated at
, 2nd Baronet, had also been an admiral. Ernest was also more distantly related to the distinguished admirals Sir Alexander Cochrane and Thomas Cochrane, Lord Cochrane. Ernest Troubridge briefly attended Wellington College before joining the Royal Navy in 1875. He attended the Royal Naval College, at Dartmouth as a naval cadet, and by 1884 had been promoted to lieutenant. During his service with the fleet he was awarded the silver medal of the Royal Humane Society, when in 1888 he saved the life of a young seaman who had fallen overboard
second Baronet, was a Captain in the Royal Navy. Laura, Lady Troubridge, wife of the fourth Baronet, was a writer for Mills and Boon and author of "The Book of Etiquette" (1926). Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge (1862–1926), was a younger son of the third Baronet and grandfather of the sixth. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was second in command of the Mediterranean Fleet and failed to engage the German ships "Goeben" and "Breslau". Although Sir Ernest