Who designed Britain's dreadnought-era battleships

Philip Watts, Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, and Stanley Goodall mark successive phases of Royal Navy battleship design from the early dreadnoughts through Nelson and the later interwar generation.

Question

Who served as the Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction during the dreadnought era?

Short answer

Philip Watts led the early phase, Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt followed through the Nelson design, and Stanley Goodall led the next new-battleship phase.

Notes

The Directors of Naval Construction shaped Britain's sequence of battleships. Philip Watts held the post through the first dreadnought phase, followed by Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt from 1912 to 1924. D'Eyncourt's tenure culminated around Nelson and Rodney, after which Stanley Goodall became the next director to design a new battleship generation. Their succession links institutional continuity with changes in turret layout, protection, speed, and treaty constraints.