Admiral of the Fleet Michael Cecil Boyce,Baron Boyce,was a British Royal Navy officer who also sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords until his death in November 2022.
Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay,KCB,KBE,MVO was a Royal Navy officer. He commanded the destroyer HMS Broke during the First World War. In the Second World War,he was responsible for the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940 and planning and commanding the naval forces in the invasion of France in 1944.
Admiral Sir John Cunningham Kirkwood Slater,,known as Jock Slater,is a retired Royal Navy officer. He commanded a minesweeper,a frigate and then a destroyer before taking over the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and then achieving higher command in the Navy. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 1995 to 1998:in that capacity he played a key role in the 1998 Strategic Defence Review carried out by the Labour Government that had come to power a year earlier.
Admiral of the Fleet John David Elliott Fieldhouse,Baron Fieldhouse,was a Royal Navy officer. He commanded five submarines and a frigate before achieving higher command from the 1970s. Following the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentine forces in April 1982,Fieldhouse was appointed Commander of the Task Force given responsibility for "Operation Corporate",the mission to recover the Falkland Islands. The campaign ended in the surrender of Argentine forces in June 1982. He became First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff in December that year and,in that role,persuaded the British Government to fund the replacement of ships lost in the Falklands War. He went on to be Chief of the Defence Staff from 1985 until his retirement in 1988.
Vice Admiral Sir Paul Kenneth Haddacks,is a retired senior officer of the Royal Navy who served as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 2005 to 2011.
Admiral Sir Jonathon Band is a retired Royal Navy officer who was the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 2006 to 2009. Before serving as First Sea Lord he was Commander-in-Chief Fleet. Since becoming First Sea Lord,Band had been a firm advocate of the creation of new ships to meet new threats and maintain the status of the Royal Navy as one of the world's leading naval forces.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Patrick Pollock,was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who rose to become First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the early 1970s. In the Second World War,he was an officer on ships tasked with protecting convoys in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean,and was gunnery officer on the cruiser HMS Norfolk when she fought the German battleship Scharnhorst during the Battle of North Cape. He later commanded the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal,and hosted Ian Smith on HMS Tiger. In retirement,he held the position of King of Arms of the Order of the Bath and Gloucester King of Arms,with responsibility for heraldry in Wales.
Admiral Sir John David Luce,was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Second World War as a submarine commander before taking part in the Dieppe Raid and becoming Chief Staff Officer to the Naval Forces for the Normandy landings. He also commanded a cruiser during the Korean War. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the mid-1960s and in that role resigned from the Royal Navy along with Navy Minister Christopher Mayhew in March 1966 in protest over the decision by the Labour Secretary of State for Defence,Denis Healey,to cancel the CVA-01 aircraft carrier programme.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Doveton Minet Staveley was a Royal Navy officer. Staveley saw service as a minesweeper commander on coastal patrol during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation before commanding a frigate and then an aircraft carrier and ultimately achieving higher command in the Navy. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff in the late 1980s. In that role he fought hard for a fleet large enough to meet NATO commitments.
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope,is a retired Royal Navy officer. After serving as a submarine commander,he commanded a frigate and then commanded an aircraft carrier on operational patrol off Sierra Leone. He went on to be Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and then Commander-in-Chief Fleet. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval staff,the professional head of the Royal Navy,from July 2009 to April 2013. In this role he advised the British Government on the deployment of naval forces during operations around Libya. He was succeeded by Admiral Sir George Zambellas in April 2013.
Admiral Sir George Michael Zambellas,is a retired Royal Navy officer. He was the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 2013 until he handed over duties to Admiral Sir Philip Jones in April 2016.
Admiral Sir Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods,was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Submarine Service in the Mediterranean.
Vice Admiral Sir Peter William Gretton was an officer in the Royal Navy. He was active in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War,and was a successful convoy escort commander. He eventually rose to become Fifth Sea Lord and retired as a vice admiral before entering university life as a bursar and academic.
Vice Admiral Sir David George Steel,is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord between 2012 and 2015. He assumed the office of Governor of Gibraltar on 11 June 2020.
Vice Admiral Sir Richard Jeffrey Ibbotson,is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet.
Admiral Sir Ian Andrew Forbes,is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.
Vice Admiral Sir John Francis Coward,was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies from 1992 to 1994.
Admiral Sir James Francis Perowne,is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic from 1998 to 2002.
Vice Admiral Sir Clive Charles Carruthers Johnstone,is a retired Royal Navy officer who served as Commander,Allied Maritime Command from 2015 to 2019. Since May 2023,he has been National President of the Royal British Legion.
Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Reginald Summers Gardner,is a senior Royal Navy officer.
