Vice admiral is a flag officer rank of the British Royal Navy and equates to the NATO rank code OF-8. It is immediately superior to the rear admiral rank and is subordinate to the full admiral rank. Naval personnel could be advanced to the rank of vice-admiral, normally from rear-admiral, whilst on active service, on the Reserved List (liable to be recalled to duty at short notice) or on the Retired List.
The Royal Navy has had vice admirals since at least the 16th century. When the fleet was deployed, the vice admiral would be in the leading portion or van, acting as the deputy to the admiral.
Promoted | Name | Born | Died | Notes |
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November 1661 | John Mennes | 1599 | 1671 | Comptroller of the Navy, 1661–71. |
1682 | Sir Thomas Allin, 1st Baronet | 1612 | 1685 | Comptroller of the Navy, 1671–80. |
June 1693 [1] | Matthew Aylmer, 1st Baron Aylmer | 1650? | 1720 | Admiral of the Fleet, 1708; MP for Dover. |
1708 [2] | Sir John Jennings | 1664 | 1743 | Promoted Admiral, December 1708; MP for Queenborough. |
12 November 1709 | John Baker | 1660 | 1716 | MP for Weymouth. |
1743 [3] | Nicholas Haddock | 1686 | 1746 | C-in-C Mediterranean; MP for Rochester; promoted Admiral, June 1744. |
1743 [4] | Chaloner Ogle | 1681 | 1750 | C-in-C West Indies; promoted Admiral, June 1744. |
1744 [5] | William Rowley | 1690? | 1768 | Promoted Admiral, 1747. |
23 June 1745 | Isaac Townsend | 1685? | 1765 | Promoted Admiral, July 1747. |
1745 | Henry Medley | 1687 | 1747 | Died in August within weeks of promotion to Vice Admiral of the Red (announced in the same Gazette which announced that Townsend, his immediate senior on the Navy List, became Admiral). |
1748 [6] | Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke | 1705 | 1781 | Promoted Admiral, February 1757; MP for Portsmouth. |
1747 | John Byng | 1704 | 1757 | Promoted Admiral, June 1756. Executed by firing squad, 1757. |
1755 [7] | Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet | 1704 | 1777 | Promoted Admiral, December 1760. |
February 1758 [8] | Thomas Cotes | 1712 | 1767 | MP for Great Bedwyn. |
1759 [9] | Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton | 1720 | 1794 | MP for Christchurch; promoted Admiral, October 1770. |
1779 [10] | George Darby | 1720? | 1790 | MP for Plymouth. |
1790 [11] | Thomas Fitzherbert | 1747 | 1794 | MP for Arundel; C-in-C Jamaica; Captured American privateer ships. Promoted Admiral, 1790. |
1793 [12] | Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet | 1730 | 1806 | Promoted Admiral, June 1795. |
1 June 1795 | Sir Thomas Rich, 5th Baronet | c.1733 | 1803 | |
1801 | Sylverius Moriarty | 1735 | 1809 | Latterly the regulating captain at Cork. |
23 April 1804 | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | 1758 | 1805 | Killed in action, Battle of Trafalgar. |
4 June 1814 | Sir William Hargood, GCH KCB | 1762 | 1839 | |
12 August 1819 | Robert Riddell-Carre, CB | 1782 | 1860 | Of Cavers-Carre. |
19 July 1821 | Sir Richard King, 2nd Baronet, KCB | 1774 | 1834 | C-in-C East Indies Station, 1816. |
19 July 1821 [13] | Sir George Parker, KCB | 1767 | 1847 | Promoted Admiral, January 1837. |
1841 | George McKinley | 1766 | 1852 | Promoted Admiral, June 1851. |
28 April 1847 | Charles Malcolm | 1782 | 1851 | |
8 January 1848 [14] | Richard Darton Thomas | 1777 | 1857 | Promoted Admiral, September 1854. |
12 November 1849 | Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, 3rd Baronet | 1773 | 1850 | |
11 June 1851 [15] | Sir Anthony Maitland, 10th Earl of Lauderdale KCB KCMG | 1785 | 1863 | Promoted Admiral, June 1857. |
16 June 1851 [15] | Hon. Granville Leveson Proby | 1782 | 1868 | Promoted Admiral, July 1857. |
27 October 1854 [16] | Robert Merrick Fowler | 1778 | 1860 | On Retired List. |
2 July 1855 [17] | Hon. Alexander Montgomery Jones | 1778 | 1862 | On Reserved List. |
28 December 1855 [16] | Joseph Needham Tayler | 1783 | 1864 | On Retired List. |
9 July 1857 [16] | Henry Lorraine Baker, Bt, CB | 1787 | 1859 | On Retired List. |
9 July 1857 [16] | John Sheridan | c.1778 | 1862 | On Retired List. |
30 July 1857 | Houston Stewart KCB | 1791 | 1875 | Promoted Admiral, November 1862; Admiral of the Fleet, 1872. |
10 September 1857 | Provo Wallis GCB | 1791 | 1892 | Promoted Admiral, March 1863; Admiral of the Fleet, December 1875. |
10 September 1857 [16] | Charles Orlando Bridgeman | 1791 | 1860 | On Retired List. |
27 September 1857 [16] | David Leslie-Melville, 8th Earl of Leven | 1785 | 1860 | On Retired List. |
2 October 1857 | Benedictus Marwood Kelly | 1785 | 1867 | Promoted Admiral on Reserved List, 1863. |
5 January 1858 [18] | Sir George Richard Brooke-Pechell, Bt | 1789 | 1860 | On Reserved List. |
5 January 1858 [18] | Hon. Henry John Rous | 1795 | 1877 | Promoted Admiral, June 1863. |
6 March 1858 [16] | Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott | 1789 | 1871 | On Retired List. Promoted Admiral on Retired List in November 1863. |
7 May 1858 [16] | William Waldegrave CB | 1788 | 1859 | On Retired List. |
25 June 1858 [19] | Sir Montagu Stopford, KCB | 1798 | 1864 | Promoted Admiral, November 1863. |
18 December 1858 | George Robert Lambert, GCB | 1796 | 1869 | |
4 June 1861 [20] | James Scott | 1790 | 1872 | Promoted Admiral, 1865. |
29 July 1861 [21] | George William Conway Courtenay | 1795 | 1863 | Retired 1831. |
29 July 1861 [21] | John Fitzgerald Studdert | 1788 | 1867 | On Retired List. |
5 August 1861 [22] | Sir Robert Lambert Baynes KCB | 1796 | 1869 | Promoted Admiral, 1865. |
5 August 1861 [22] | Sir John Burnet Dundas, Bt | 1794 | 1868 | On Reserved List. |
5 August 1861 [22] | Sir Frederick William Grey, GCB | 1805 | 1878 | First Naval Lord, June 1861. Promoted Admiral, April 1865. |
5 August 1861 [21] | Charles Gordon | On Retired List. | ||
7 May 1862 [23] | Abraham Crawford | 1788 | 1869 | On Retired List. |
7 May 1862 [23] | Russell Henry Manners | 1800 | 1870 | On Retired List; promoted Admiral in September 1865; President of Royal Astronomical Society 1868–70. |
7 May 1862 [23] | James Thorne | 1794 | 1870 | On Retired List; promoted Admiral in September 1865. |
7 May 1862 [23] | John Alexander Duntze | 1806 | 1882 | Promoted Admiral, December 1865. |
12 April 1862 [23] | John Furneaux | 1793 | 1865 | On Reserved List. |
12 April 1862 [23] | Henry Gosset | 1796 | 1877 | On Reserved List; promoted Admiral in September 1865. |
12 April 1862 [23] | Jodrell Leigh | 1790 | 1863 | On Reserved List. |
12 April 1862 [23] | Sir Peter Richards, KCB | 1798 | 1869 | On Reserved List; promoted Admiral in September 1865. |
12 April 1862 [23] | Joseph O'Brien | 1796 | 1865 | On Reserved List; promoted Admiral in September 1865. |
12 April 1862 [23] | Henry Smith, KCB | 1803 | 1887 | Promoted Admiral in September 1865. |
4 October 1862 [24] | Sir Thomas Hastings, KCB | 1790 | 1870 | Promoted Admiral, April 1866. |
4 October 1862 [24] | James Wigston | 1792 | 1881 | On Reserve list. Promoted Admiral, April 1866. |
10 November 1862 [25] | Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune CB | 1802 | 1884 | Promoted Admiral, April 1866. |
11 December 1862 | Sir Francis William Austen, GCB | 1774 | 1865 | Promoted to Admiral, 1848. |
27 April 1863 [26] | Henry Wolsey Bayfield | 1795 | 1855 | Promoted Admiral, 25 October 1867. |
24 September 1863 [27] | Henry John Codrington, KCB | 1808 | 1877 | Promoted Admiral, October 1867. |
24 September 1863 [27] | James Burney | 1794 | 1884 | On Retired List; promoted Admiral, October 1867. |
14 November 1863 [28] | James Brasier | 1784 | 1864 | On Reserved List. |
14 November 1863 [28] | Robert Contart McCrea | 1793 | 1875 | On Reserved List. |
14 November 1863 [28] | Michael Quin | |||
14 November 1863 [28] | William Slaughter, KH | On Retired List. | ||
14 November 1863 [28] | Thomas Gill | On Retired List. | ||
14 November 1863 [28] | William Allan Herringham | 1790 | 1865 | On Retired List. |
14 November 1863 [28] | Robert Gordon | On Retired List. | ||
30 November 1863 [29] | John Balfour Maxwell | 1799 | 1874 | Promoted on Reserved List. |
30 November 1863 [29] | John Rivett-Carnac | 1796 | 1869 | Promoted on Reserved List. Promoted Admiral, April 1868. |
30 November 1863 [29] | Thomas Maitland, 11th Earl of Lauderdale, GCB | 1803 | 1878 | Promoted Admiral, April 1868. |
3 December 1863 [30] | William Hargood | 1801 | 1888 | On Reserved List. |
3 December 1863 [30] | Robert Smart, KCB KH | 1796 | 1874 | Promoted Admiral, January 1869. |
3 December 1863 [30] | Sir Thomas Raikes Trigge Thompson | 1804 | 1865 | On Reserved List. |
15 December 1863 | Sir Rodney Mundy GCB | 1805 | 1884 | Promoted Admiral, May 1869; Admiral of the Fleet, December 1877. |
11 January 1864 [31] | Henry Keppel, KCB OM | 1809 | 1904 | Promoted Admiral, June 1869. |
11 January 1864 [31] | Sir William Dickson, 3rd Baronet | 1798 | 1868 | On Reserved List. |
11 January 1864 [31] | William Sydney Smith | 1799 | 1892 | On Reserved List; promoted Admiral, July 1869. |
11 January 1864 [31] | Henry Ommanney Love | 1793 | 1872 | On Retired List. |
15 June 1864 [32] | Russell Eliott | 1802 | 1881 | On Reserved List. |
15 June 1864 [32] | John Elphinstone Erskine | 1806 | 1887 | MP for Stirlingshire, 1865–74; promoted Admiral, September 1869. |
15 June 1864 [32] | Alfred Luckraft | 1790 | 1871 | On Retired List; promoted retired Admiral in September 1869. |
1865 | Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury | 1803 | 1868 | MP for Hertford and Staffordshire South. |
12 September 1865 | George Augustus Elliot | 1813 | 1901 | Promoted Admiral, September 1869. |
2 April 1866 [33] | Sir Edward Belcher CB | 1799 | 1877 | Put on Retired List, 2 April 1866. Made Admiral, 20 October 1872. |
2 April 1866 [33] | Patrick John Blake | 1798 | 1884 | Made Vice-Admiral on Reserved List. |
2 April 1866 [33] | James John Stopford | 1817 | 1868 | Brother of Robert Fanshawe Stopford. |
2 April 1866 [33] | Robert Fanshawe Stopford | 1811 | 1891 | Promoted Admiral. |
2 April 1866 [33] | Sackett Hope | 1801 | 1868 | Made Vice-Admiral on Reserved List. |
2 April 1866 [33] | Thomas Leeke Massie | 1802 | 1898 | Put on Retired List, 6 April 1866; promoted Admiral on 20 October 1872. |
2 April 1866 [33] | Robert Spencer Robinson | 1809 | 1889 | Controller of the Navy 1861–1869; Third Naval Lord 1869–1871; promoted Admiral, July 1871. |
2 April 1866 [33] | Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds GCB | 1813 | 1894 | Promoted Admiral, 14 July 1871. |
2 April 1866 [33] | William Warren CB | 1798 | 1871 | Made Vice-Admiral on Reserved List. |
2 April 1866 [33] | Woodford John Williams | 1809 | 1892 | On Retired List from April 1870. |
6 April 1866 [34] | John Venour Fletcher | 1801 | 1877 | Promoted on Reserved List; promoted retired Admiral, October 1872. |
6 April 1866 [34] | Talavera Vernon Anson | 1809 | 1895 | Promoted on Reserved List; promoted Admiral, October 1872. |
6 April 1866 [34] | Charles Eden | 1808 | 1878 | |
6 April 1866 [34] | Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot, KCB | 1818 | 1895 | Promoted Admiral, February 1873. |
6 April 1866 [34] | Augustus Leopold Cooper, KCB | 1809 | 1885 | Promoted to Admiral, October 1872. |
6 April 1866 [34] | Samuel Perkins Pritchard | 1787 | 1868 | On Retired List. |
20 March 1867 | George St Vincent King, KCB | 1809 | 1891 | C-in-C East Indies Station, 1865. |
18 October 1867 [35] | Charles Frederick | 1797 | 1875 | Third Naval Lord, 1861–65; promoted Admiral, July 1875. |
18 October 1867 [35] | Hon. Keith Stewart, CB | 1814 | 1879 | On Reserved List. |
18 October 1867 [35] | George Goldsmith, CB | On Retired List. | ||
18 October 1867 [35] | William Griffin | On Reserved List. | ||
18 October 1867 [35] | John Hallowes | On Reserved List. | ||
10 September 1869 [36] | Honourable George Fowler Hastings CB | 1814 | 1876 | |
1 April 1870 [37] | Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe GCB | 1814 | 1906 | Promoted Admiral, June 1876. |
1 April 1870 [37] | Claude Henry Mason Buckle, CB | 1804 | 1894 | Retired. |
1 April 1870 [37] | Thomas Baillie | Retired 1873. | ||
1 April 1870 [37] | George Giffard KCB | 1815 | 1895 | Retired List, April 1870. Made Admiral, January 1877. |
1 April 1870 [37] | Sir Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Bt.,CB | 1815 | 1899 | Promoted Admiral, January 1877. |
1 April 1870 [38] | Henry Bagot | 1810 | 1877 | On Reserved List. |
1 April 1870 [38] | Sir George Nathaniel Broke-Middleton, Bt, CB | 1812 | 1887 | On Reserved List. |
1 April 1870 [38] | Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan KCB | 1810 | 1890 | On Reserved List. Promoted to Admiral, 1877. |
1 April 1870 [38] | William Nevill | On Retired List. | ||
1 April 1870 [38] | Joseph Pearse | 1794 | >1870 | On Retired List. |
7 May 1872 [39] | John Fulford | 1809 | 1888 | on the Retired list since 1870; promoted Admiral on the Retired list in 1877 |
7 May 1872 [39] | Sir Alfred Phillipps Ryder, KCB | 1820 | 1888 | Promoted Admiral in 1877 |
29 May 1873 [40] | Charles Farrel Hillyar | 1817 | 1888 | Promoted Admiral in September 1878. |
29 May 1873 [40] | Frederick Byng Montresor | 1811 | !887 | On Retired List since April 1870. |
29 May 1873 [40] | Archibald McMurdo | 1812 | 1875 | On Retired List. |
29 May 1873 [40] | Charles Frederick Schomberg | 1815 | 1874 | On Retired List. |
1870s | Edwin Clayton Tennyson D'Eyncourt CB | 1813 | 1903 | on retired list since 1870 |
December 1880 [41] | Charles Fellowes, CB | 1823 | 1886 | Died on active duty aboard HMS Minotaur. |
July 1884 | Sir William Nathan Wrighte Hewett, VC, KCB | 1834 | 1888 | |
November 1885 | Edward Henry Howard [42] | 1832 | 1890 | On Retired List from November 1889. |
March 1886 | Charles Thomas Curme [43] | 1827 | 1892 | Died at his official residence serving as Commander-in-Chief the Nore. |
April 1886 | George Willes Watson [44] | 1827 | 1897 | On Retired List from April 1892. |
1888 | George Henry Parkin [45] | 1902 | On the Retired List since 1883. | |
14 February 1892 [46] | Sir James Elphinstone Erskine, KCB | 1838 | 1911 | Promoted Admiral in 1897. |
20 February 1892 [46] | George Lydiard Sulivan | 1832 | 1904 | Retired List on 26 March 1892; [47] promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1897. |
20 February 1892 [46] | Edward Field, CB | 1828 | 1912 | On the Retired List before promotion; promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1897. |
25 February 1892 [46] | Sir Henry Frederick Nicholson, KCB | 1835 | 1914 | Promoted Admiral in 1897. |
25 February 1892 [46] | Morgan Singer | 1831 | On the Retired List since before promotion. | |
26 March 1892 [47] | Sir Alexander Buller, GCB | 1834 | 1903 | Promoted Admiral in 1897. |
26 March 1892 [47] | Sir George Strong Nares, KCB | 1831 | 1915 | On the Retired List since 1886. |
5 April 1892 [48] | Loftus Francis Jones | 1836 | 1912 | Promoted Admiral in 1897. |
25 July 1892 [49] | George Stanley Bosanquet | 1835 | 1914 | Retired List in 1894. |
13 May 1893 [50] | Edward Stanley Adeane, CMG | 1836 | 1902 | Promoted Admiral in 1898. |
13 May 1893 [50] | James Augustus Poland | 1832 | 1918 | On the Retired List since 1886. |
20 February 1895 [51] | Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, GCB | 1839 | 1927 | Promoted Admiral in 1900. |
22 June 1895 [52] | Sir George Digby Morant, KCB | 1837 | 1921 | Promoted Admiral in 1901. |
9 November 1895 [53] | Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1840 | 1929 | Promoted Admiral in 1901. |
19 January 1896 [54] | Henry Craven St John | 1837 | 1909 | Promoted Admiral in 1901. |
19 January 1896 [54] | Robert Peel Dennistoun | 1837 | 1915 | On the Retired List since before promotion. |
11 March 1896 [55] | Sir William Robert Kennedy, GCB | 1838 | 1916 | Promoted Admiral in 1901. |
8 May 1896 [56] | John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1841 | 1920 | Promoted Admiral in 1901. |
8 May 1896 [56] | George Parsons | 1831 | 1907 | On the Retired List since 1886. |
10 October 1896 [57] | Sir Henry Frederick Stephenson, GCVO, KCB | 1842 | 1919 | Promoted Admiral in 1901. |
9 November 1896 [58] | Sir Charles George Fane, KCB | 1837 | 1909 | Promoted Admiral in 1902. |
9 November 1896 [58] | Harry Woodfall Brent | 1834 | 1911 | On the Retired List since 1889. |
23 February 1897 [59] | Sir Compton Edward Domvile, GCB, GCVO | 1842 | 1924 | Promoted Admiral in 1902. |
23 February 1897 [59] | John Frederick George Grant | 1835 | 1916 | On the Retired List since 1894; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1902. |
23 February 1897 [59] | Henry Forster Cleveland | 1834 | 1924 | On the Retired List since 1894; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1902. |
10 May 1897 [60] | Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford, GCB, GCVO | 1838 | 1913 | Promoted Admiral in 1902. |
23 August 1897 [61] | Sir Albert Hastings Markham, KCB | 1841 | 1918 | Promoted Admiral in 1903. |
23 August 1897 [61] | John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear | 1838 | 1907 | On the Retired List since 1891; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1903. |
16 September 1897 [62] | Alfred Taylor Dale | 1840 | 1925 | Promoted Admiral in 1903. |
16 September 1897 [62] | Guy Ouchterlony Twiss | 1834 | 1918 | On the Retired List since 1889. |
16 September 1897 [62] | Thomas Harvey Royse | 1835 | On the Retired List since before promotion. | |
11 December 1897 [63] | Claude Edward Buckle | 1839 | 1930 | Promoted Admiral in 1903. |
26 December 1897 [64] | Richard Duckworth-King | 1840 | 1900 | Retired List on 21 December 1898. [65] |
19 March 1898 [66] | Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson, GCB, GCMG | 1843 | 1910 | Promoted Admiral in 1903. |
29 November 1898 [67] | Sir Cyprian Arthur George Bridge, GCB | 1839 | 1924 | Promoted Admiral in 1903. |
29 November 1898 [67] | Francis Richard Blackburne | 1835 | 1902 | On the Retired List since 1890. |
29 November 1898 [67] | Richard George Kinahan | 1837 | 19 | On the Retired List since before promotion. |
29 November 1898 [67] | Richard Henry Napier | 1836 | 1903 | On the Retired List since 1890. |
21 December 1898 [68] | Edmund Charles Drummond | 1841 | 1911 | Promoted Admiral in 1903. |
13 January 1899 [69] | Charles Searle Cardale | 1841 | 1904 | Retired List on 3 March 1900; [70] promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
30 June 1899 [71] | Edmund John Church | 1842 | 1904 | Retired List on 11 July 1899; [72] promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
11 July 1899 [73] | Sir John Reginald Thomas Fullerton, GCVO, CB | 1840 | 1918 | Retired List in ?; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
13 July 1899 [73] | Sir Ernest Rice, KCB | 1840 | 1927 | Promoted Admiral in 1904. |
13 July 1899 [74] | Charles Barstow Theobald | 1843 | 1905 | On the Retired List since 1893; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
13 July 1899 [74] | Henry St. Leger Bury Palliser | 1839 | 1907 | On the Retired List since June 1899; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
26 October 1899 [75] | Frederick Samuel Vander-Maulen | 1839 | 1913 | Retired List on 20 November 1899; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
20 November 1899 [76] | Sir Hilary Gustavus Andoe, KCB | 1841 | 1905 | Retired List on 19 February 1901; [77] promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
3 March 1900 [70] | Armand Temple Powlett | 1841 | 1925 | Retired List on 17 March 1901; [78] promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
21 March 1900 [79] | Alexander Plantagenet Hastings, CB | 1843 | 1928 | Retired List in ?; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
10 August 1900 [80] | Rodney Maclaine Lloyd, CB | 1841 | 1911 | Retired List on 1 September 1902; [81] promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1904. |
10 August 1900 [80] | Robert Woodward, CB | 1838 | 1907 | On the Retired List since 1893. |
1 January 1901 [82] | Charles Lister Oxley | 1841 | 1920 | Promoted Admiral in 1904. |
1 January 1901 [82] | Francis Starkie Clayton | 1838 | 1913 | On the Retired List since before promotion. |
1 January 1901 [82] | Arthur Hildebrand Alington | 1839 | 1925 | On the Retired List since 1899. |
1 January 1901 [82] | Henry John Carr | 1839 | 1914 | On the Retired List since 1899. |
19 February 1901 [77] | Sir Robert Hastings Harris, KCB, KCMG | 1843 | 1926 | Promoted Admiral in 1904. |
13 March 1901 [78] | Sir Hugo Lewis Pearson, KCB | 1843 | 1912 | Promoted Admiral in 1904. |
17 March 1901 [83] | Sir John Fellowes, KCB | 1843 | 1913 | Promoted Admiral in 1904. |
17 March 1901 [83] | Noel Stephen Fox Digby | 1839 | 1920 | On the Retired List since 1893. |
17 March 1901 [83] | Henry Harvey Boys | 1839 | 1914 | On the Retired List since 1894. |
24 May 1901 [84] | Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, 3rd Baronet, VC, GCM, OM, GCVO | 1842 | 1921 | Promoted Admiral in 1905. |
15 June 1901 [85] | Sir Archibald Lucius Douglas, GCB, GCVO | 1842 | 1913 | Promoted Admiral in 1905. |
15 June 1901 [85] | Martin Julius Dunlop | 1844? | 1911 | On the Retired List since 1894. |
16 June 1901 [86] | William Home Chisholme St Clair | 1841 | 1905 | Retired List on 9 September 1901; [87] promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1905. |
9 September 1901 [87] | Atwell Peregrine Macleod Lake | 1842 | 1915 | Retired List on 1 July 1902; [88] promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1905. |
2 November 1901 [89] | Sir Gerard Henry Uctred Noel,GCB, KCMG | 1845 | 1918 | Promoted Admiral in 1905. |
7 December 1901 [90] | John William Brackenbury, CB, CMG | 1842 | 1918 | Promoted Admiral in 1905. |
7 December 1901 [90] | John Borlase Warren | 1838 | 1919 | On the Retired List since 1893. |
24 January 1902 [91] | Sir Thomas Sturges Jackson, KCVO | 1842 | 1934 | Promoted Admiral in 1905. |
24 January 1902 [91] | Arthur Cecil Henry Paget | 1839 | 1924 | On the Retired List since 1893. |
25 January 1902 [92] | Sir Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe, GCB, GCVO | 1847 | 1936 | Promoted Admiral in 1905. |
25 January 1902 [92] | Richard Horace Hamond | 1843 | 1906 | On the Retired List since before promotion; promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1905. |
1 July 1902 [88] | Sir Day Hort Bosanquet, GCMG, GCVO, KCB | 1843 | 1923 | Promoted Admiral in 1905. |
9 September 1902 [93] | Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont, GCB, KCMG | 1847 | 1922 | Promoted Admiral in 1906. |
3 October 1902 [94] | Charles William Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford GCB, GCVO | 1846 | 1919 | Promoted Admiral in 1905. |
21 January 1903 [95] | Albert Baldwin Jenkings | 1846 | 1942 | Promoted Admiral in 1907. |
30 May 1903 [96] | Sir James Andrew Thomas Bruce, KCMG | 1846 | 1921 | Promoted Admiral in 1907. |
30 May 1903 [96] | Sir Henry Coey Kane, KCB | 1843 | 1917 | On the Retired List since 1899. |
30 May 1903 [96] | Frederick Ross Boardman, CB | 1843 | 1927 | On the Retired List since 1899. |
30 May 1903 [96] | Richard Evans | 1861 | 1927 | On the Retired List since 1894. |
12 August 1903 [97] | Pelham Aldrich, CVO | 1844 | 1930 | Promoted Admiral in 1907 |
15 March 1904 [98] | Sir William Alison Dyke Acland, 2nd Baronet, CVO | 1847 | 1924 | Promoted Admiral in 1908. |
26 June 1905 | John Harvey Rainier | 1847 | 1915 | Retired List on 1 August 1905; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1908. |
5 July 1905 | Alfred Arthur Chase Parr | 1849 | 1914 | Retired List on 8 March 1906; [99] promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1908. |
22 July 1905 | Sir Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson, GCB | 1846 | 1932 | Promoted Admiral in 1908. |
8 March 1906 [99] | Arthur Charles Burgoyne Bromley | 1847 | 1909 | Retired List on. |
17 October 1906 [100] | Sir Charles Campbell, KCMG, CB, DSO | 1847 | 1911 | Retired List on 18 October 1906; [101] promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1910. |
18 October 1906 [101] | Sir John Durnford, GCB, DSO | 1849 | 1914 | Promoted Admiral in 1910. |
8 February 1907 | Sir Francis Powell, KCMG, CB | 1849 | 1927 | Retired List on 13 February 1907; [102] promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1911. |
13 February 1907 [102] | William Des Vœux Hamilton | 1852 | 1907 | |
20 February 1907 | Sir Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman, GCB, GCVO | 1848 | 1929 | Promoted Admiral in 1911. |
18 May 1908 | Sir George Fowler King-Hall, KCB, CVO | 1850 | 1939 | Promoted Admiral in 1912. |
18 September 1911 [103] | Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, KCB OM GCVO | 1859 | 1935 | Previously temporary Vice-Admiral; Second Sea Lord, 1912–14; promoted Admiral in 1914. |
18 September 1911 [103] | Henry Peter Routh, MVO | 1851 | 1944 | On Retired List. |
18 September 1911 [103] | Robert Stevenson Dalton Cumming, CBE | 1852 | 1940 | On Retired List. |
18 September 1911 [103] | James Startin | 1855 | 1948 | |
1 January 1919 [104] | Arthur Cavenagh Leveson, GCB | 1868 | 1929 | Previously acting Vice-Admiral; promoted Admiral in 1922. |
1 January 1919 [104] | Sidney Robert Fremantle, CB MVO | 1867 | 1958 | Previously acting Vice-Admiral; promoted Admiral in 1922. |
1 November 1923 [105] | Brian H F Barttelot KBE CB CVO | 1867 | 1942 | Retired List on 2 November 1923; promoted Admiral on Retired List in 1927. |
2 November 1923 [105] | Sir Walter Henry Cowan Bt, KCB DSO MVO ADC | 1871 | 1956 | Promoted Admiral in 1927. |
1 October 1924 [106] | Hubert George Brand, GCB KCMG KCVO | 1870 | 1955 | Promoted Admiral in 1928. |
1 July 1925 | Crawford Maclachlan, CB | 1867 | 1952 | On Retired List; promoted Admiral, April 1930. |
12 August 1925 | John Luce CB | 1870 | 1932 | On Retired List; promoted Admiral, April 1930. |
24 November 1925 | Wilmot Stuart Nicholson, CB | 1870 | 1932 | On Retired List; promoted Admiral, April 1930. |
1 March 1926 [107] | Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield GCB, OM, KCMG, CVO, PC, DL | 1873 | 1967 | Promoted Admiral, May 1930, First Sea Lord, 1933. |
1 March 1926 [107] | Arthur Allan Morison Duff | 1874 | 1952 | |
1 March 1926 [107] | Charles Duncan Johnson | 1869 | 1930 | On Retired List, 2 March 1926. Promoted Admiral, May 1930. |
2 March 1926 [107] | Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair KCB | 1873 | 1939 | Director of British Naval Intelligence, 1919. On the Retired List from 1926. |
1 August 1927 [108] | Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds, CB CMG ADC | 1874 | 1955 | Retired 2 August 1927; promoted Admiral on Retired List, 1932. |
2 August 1927 [108] | Louis Charles Stirling Woolcombe, CB MVO | 1872 | 1951 | Retired 3 August 1927. |
2 August 1927 [108] | John William Leopold McClintock CB DSO | 1874 | 1929 | President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1929. |
3 August 1927 [108] | Francis Clifton-Brown CB CMG | 1874 | 1963 | Promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral (retired) on 3 August 1927. |
21 January 1928 | Bertram Sackville Thesiger KBE CB CMG | 1875 | 1966 | Promoted Admiral in 1932. |
Sir Francis Herbert Mitchell, CB, DSO | 1876 | 1946 | Promoted Admiral in 1933 | |
23 May 1929 [109] | Cecil Dacre Staveley Raikes, CBE | 1874 | 1947 | On the Retired List. |
23 May 1929 [109] | John Ewen Cameron, CB MVO | 1874 | 1939 | Retired List on 24 May 1929; promoted Admiral on the Retired list in 1933. |
24 May 1929 [109] | Cyril Samuel Townsend, CB | 1875 | 1949 | Retired List on 25 May 1929; promoted Admiral on the Retired list in 1933. |
25 May 1929 [109] | Cecil Minet Staveley, CB, CMG | 1874 | 1934 | Retired List on 26 May 1929; promoted Admiral on the Retired list in 1933. |
26 May 1929 [109] | John Derwent Allen, CB | 1875 | 1958 | On the Retired List. |
26 May 1929 [109] | Robert Gordon Douglas Dewar, CBE | 1874 | 1948 | On Retired List. |
26 May 1929 [109] | Sir Frank Larken, KCB, CMG | 1875 | 1953 | Promoted Admiral in 1933 |
26 May 1929 [109] | John Ernest Troyte Harper, CB MVO | 1874 | 1949 | On Retired List. |
31 July 1929 [110] | William Rawdon Napier, CB, CMG, DSO | 1877 | 1951 | Retired List on 1 August 1929; promoted Admiral on the Retired list in 1933. |
1 August 1929 [110] | Humphrey Wykeham Bowring, CB DSO | 1874 | 1952 | Retired List on 2 August 1929; promoted Admiral on the Retired list in 1933. |
2 August 1929 [110] | Rudolf Miles Burmester, KBE CB CMG | 1875 | 1956 | Promoted Admiral in 1933. |
1 April 1930 [111] | Henry Edgar Grace, CB | 1876 | 1937 | Retired List on 2 April 1930. |
2 April 1930 [111] | Lionel George Preston, KCB | 1875 | 1971 | |
8 May 1930 [112] | Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, GCVO CB DSo | 1875 | 1964 | Promoted to Admiral, July 1934. |
12 October 1932 [113] | Sir Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, VC KCB KCMG | 1883 | 1965 | Promoted Admiral, January 1936. |
6 October 1931 | Colin Kenneth Maclean CB CVO DSO | 1876 | 1935 | Retired February 1932. |
13 October 1932 [113] | Matthew Robert Best, KCB DSO&Bar MVO | 1878 | 1940 | Promoted Admiral, June 1936. |
November 1932 | Sir Edward Evans, KCB DSO | 1880 | 1957 | Promoted Admiral, July 1936. |
31 December 1932 [114] | Henry Karslake Kitson, KBE CB | 1877 | 1952 | Retired List on the following day, 1 January 1933. [114] |
31 December 1932 [114] | Gordon Campbell, VC DSO MP | 1886 | 1953 | On Retired List. |
31 December 1932 [114] | Herbert Arthur Buchanan-Wollaston, CMG | 1878 | 1975 | On Retired List. |
31 December 1932 [114] | Norton Allen Sulivan, CVO | 1897 | 1964 | On Retired List. |
1 January 1933 [114] | Harold Owen Reinold, CB CVO | 1877 | 1962 | Retired List on the following day, 2 January 1933. [114] |
2 January 1933 [114] | George Ronald Beddard Blount, DSO | 1877 | 1964 | On Retired List. |
2 January 1933 [114] | Cecil Horace Pilcher, DSO | 1887 | 1953 | On Retired List. |
2 January 1933 [114] | Theodore John Hallett, CB CBE | 1878 | 1957 | Retired List on the following day, 3 January 1933. [114] |
3 January 1933 [114] | Cecil Vivian Usborne, CB CMG | 1880 | 1951 | Retired List on the following day, 4 January 1933. [114] |
4 January 1933 [114] | George Knightley Chetwode, CB, CBE | 1877 | 1957 | Promoted Admiral in 1936. |
4 January 1933 [114] | Wion de Malpas Egerton, DSO | 1879 | 1943 | On Retired List. |
4 January 1933 [114] | Frederick Charles Fisher | 1877 | 1958 | On Retired List. |
1 September 1933 [115] | Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little, GCB, GBE | 1882 | 1973 | Promoted Admiral in 1937 |
30 September 1933 [116] | Sir William Milbourne James, GCB | 1881 | 1973 | Promoted Admiral in 1938 |
30 September 1933 [116] | Hon. Arthur Charles Strutt, CBE | 1878 | 1973 | on the Retired list since 1929. |
1 January 1936 [117] | Sir Francis Murray Austin, KBE, CB | 1882 | 1953 | |
1 January 1936 [117] | Bernard William Murray Fairbairn | 1880 | 1960 | |
1 January 1936 [117] | Arthur Lionel Snagge, CB | 1878 | 1955 | Retired List on 2 January 1936. |
2 January 1936 [117] | Francis George Gillilan Chilton | 1879 | 1964 | |
2 January 1936 [117] | Arthur Edward Frederick Bedford | 1881 | 1949 | Supernumerary. |
2 January 1936 [117] | Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay KCVO CB DSO | 1881 | 1972 | Promoted Admiral in 1939. |
19 June 1936 [118] | Dudley Burton Napier North, GCVO, CB, CSI, CMG | 1881 | 1961 | Promoted Admiral in 1940. |
12 July 1936 [119] | Noel Frank Laurence, KCB, DSO | 1882 | 1970 | Promoted Admiral in 1940. |
22 July 1936 [119] | Andrew Browne Cunningham, Viscount Cunningham, KT, GCB, OM, DSO | 1883 | 1963 | Promoted Admiral in 1941. |
27 June 1937 | Sir St Aubyn Balwin Wake, KBE, CB | 1882 | 1951 | |
28 June 1937 | Sir Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis, GBE, KCB | 1884 | 1946 | Promoted Admiral in 1942 |
6 May 1940 [120] | Sir Geoffrey Arbuthnot, KCB | 1885 | 1957 | |
31 December 1943 | Sir Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton, KCB, DSO | 1890 | 1957 | Promoted Admiral in 1947. |
31 December 1943 | Sir Irvine Gordon Glennie, KCB | 1892 | 1980 | Retired List in 1947; promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1947. |
7 February 1944 | Sir Arthur Francis Eric Palliser, KCB, DSC | 1890 | 1956 | Promoted Admiral in 1947. |
Sir Geoffrey John Audley Miles, KCB, KCSI | 1890 | 1986 | Promoted Admiral in 1948. | |
15 June 1944 | Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton, KCB | 1890 | 1974 | Promoted Admiral in 1948. |
30 June 1944 | Sir Denis William Boyd, KCB, CBE, DSC | 1891 | 1965 | Promoted Admiral in 1948. |
Sir Charles Eric Morgan, KCB, DSO | 1889 | 1951 | Retired List on 11 January 1948. [121] | |
20 December 1945 | Sir Douglas Blake Fisher, KCB, KBE | 1890 | 1963 | Retired List on 13 July 1948; promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1949. |
1 February 1946 | Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt, GBE, KCB | 1892 | 1959 | Promoted Admiral in 1949. |
16 May 1947 [122] | Sir Ernest Russell Archer, KCB, CBE | 1891 | 1958 | Promoted Admiral in 1950. |
4 January 1948 [121] | Sir Randolph Stewart Gresham Nicholson, KBE, CB, DSO, DSC | 1892 | 1975 | Retired List on 15 March 1950; promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1951. |
4 January 1948 [121] | Sir George Elvey Creasy, GCB, CBE, DSO, MVO | 1895 | 1972 | Promoted Admiral in 1951. |
4 January 1948 [121] | Sir William Edward Parry, KCB | 1893 | 1972 | Promoted Admiral in 1951. |
4 January 1948 [121] | Arthur George Talbot, CB, DSO | 1892 | 1960 | Retired List on the same day, 4 January 1948. |
4 January 1948 [121] | Henry Jack Egerton, CB | 1892 | 1972 | Retired List on the same day, 4 January 1948. |
21 January 1948 [123] | Sir Charles Henry Lawrence Woodhouse, KCB | 1893 | 1978 | Retired List on 15 August 1950; [124] promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1952. |
21 January 1948 [123] | Richard Shelley, CB, CBE | 1892 | 1968 | Retired List on the same day, 21 February 1948. [123] |
13 June 1948 | John George Lawrence Dundas | 1893 | 1952 | On Retired List since January 1946. |
2 September 1948 | Gervase Boswell Middleton, CB, CBE | 1893 | 1961 | Retired List on 1 December 1950; [125] promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1952. |
2 September 1948 | Sir Edward Desmond Bewley McCarthy, KCB, DSO | 1893 | 1966 | Retired List on 15 December 1950; [125] promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1952. |
26 September 1948 [126] | Robert Don Oliver, CB, CBE, DSC | 1895 | 1980 | Retired List on the same day, 26 September 1948. |
26 September 1948 [127] | Sir Arthur Robin Moore Bridge, KBE, CB | 1894 | 1971 | Retired List in 1951; promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1952. |
22 October 1948 [127] | Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke, CBE, DSC | 1892 | 1972 | On the Retired List since 1947. |
February 1949 | Sir Geoffrey Nigel Oliver, GBE, KCB, DSO | 1898 | 1980 | Promoted Admiral in 1952. |
22 June 1949 [128] | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO | 1900 | 1979 | Promoted Admiral in 1953. |
22 June 1949 [128] | Gerald Maxwell Bradshaw Langley, CB, OBE | 1895 | Retired List on the same day, 22 June 1949. [128] | |
Sir Alexander Cumming Gordon Madden, KCB, CBE | 1895 | 1964 | Promoted Admiral in 1952? | |
3 August 1949 | Patrick William Beresford Brooking, CB, DSO | 1896 | Retired List on 15 August 1950; [124] promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1953. | |
30 September 1949 [129] | Sir Maurice James Mansergh, KCB, CBE | 1896 | 1966 | Promoted Admiral in 1953. |
1 May 1950 | Sir Henry William Urquhart McCall, KCVO, KBE, CB, DSO | 1895 | 1980 | Promoted Admiral in 1953. |
1 May 1950 | Sir Philip King Enright, KBE, CB | 1894 | 1960 | Promoted Admiral in 1953. |
1950 | Sir William Gladstone Agnew, KCVO, CB, DSO | 1898 | 1960 | On the Retired list since earlier that year. |
15 August 1950 [124] | Sir William Rudolph Slayter, KCB, DSO, DSC | 1896 | 1971 | Promoted Admiral in 1953. |
15 August 1950 [124] | Sir Geoffrey Alan Brooke Hawkins, KBE, CB, MVO, DSC | 1895 | 1980 | Retired List on 4 December 1952; promoted Admiral on the Retired List in 1953. |
15 August 1950 [124] | Douglas Young-Jamieson, CB | 1893 | 1955 | Retired List on the same day, 15 August 1950. [124] |
15 August 1950 [124] | Clifford Caslon, CB, CBE | 1896 | Retired List on the same day, 15 August 1950. [124] | |
1 December 1950 [125] | Sir Charles Edward Lambe, GCB, CVO | 1900 | 1960 | Promoted Admiral in 1954. |
1 December 1950 [125] | Sir William Gerrard Andrewes, KBE, CB, DSO | 1899 | 1974 | Promoted Admiral in 1954. |
1 December 1950 [125] | Sir William York La Roche Beverley, KBE, CB | 1895 | 1982 | Retired List on 16 December 1954. [130] |
1 December 1950 [131] | Lachlan Donald Mackintosh, CB, DSO, DSC | 1896 | 1957 | Retired List on the same day, 1 December 1950. [131] |
1 December 1950 [131] | Brian Betham Schofield, CB, CBE | 1895 | Retired List on the same day, 1 December 1950. [131] | |
1 December 1950 [131] | Sir Horace Geoffrey Norman, KCVO, CB, CBE | 1896 | Retired List on the same day, 1 December 1950. [131] | |
1 December 1950 [131] | Basil Charles Barrington Brooke, CB, CBE | 1895 | 1983 | On the Retired List since 1949. |
15 December 1950 [125] | Sir Peveril Barton Reibey Wallop William-Powlett, KCB, KCMG, CBE, DSO | 1898 | 1985 | Retired List on 8 September 1954. |
15 January 1951 [125] | Sir Cecil Aubrey Lawson Mansergh, KBE, CB, DSC | 1898 | 1990 | Retired List on 16 December 1954. [130] |
Sir John Augustine Collins, KBE, CB | 1899 | 1989 | Retired in 1955. | |
Eric William Longley Longley-Cook, CB, CBE, DSO | 1898 | 1983 | Retired in 1951. | |
Sir Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, KCB, CBE | 1900 | 1980 | Promoted Admiral in 1956. | |
15 August 1951 | Sir Albert Lawrence Poland, KBE, CB, DSO, DSC | 1895 | 1967 | Retired List on 16 December 1954. [130] |
15 October 1951 [132] | Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey, GBE, CB, DSO | 1899 | 1993 | Promoted Admiral in 1954. |
1 September 1952 | Sir Edward Michael Conolly Abel Smith, GCVO, CB | 1899 | 1985 | Retired List on 14 February 1958. [133] |
27 January 1953 [134] | Sir Archibald Day, KBE, CB, DSO | 1899 | 1970 | Retired List in 1955. |
30 March 1954 [135] | Sir Caspar John, GCB | 1903 | 1984 | Promoted Admiral in 1957. |
16 September 1954 | Sir John William Musgrave Eaton, KBE, CB, DSO, DSC | 1902 | 1981 | Retired on 31 January 1958. [133] |
16 December 1954 [130] | Sir Arthur Gordon Voules Hubback, KBE, CB | 1902 | 1970 | Retired List on 3 November 1958. [136] |
16 December 1954 [130] | Jocelyn Stuart Cambridge Salter, CB, DSO, OBE | 1901 | 1989 | Retired List on 3 December 1957. |
16 December 1954 [130] | Sir Maxwell Richmond, KBE, CB, DSO | 1900 | 1986 | |
16 December 1954 [130] | Sir Stephen Hope Carlill, KBE, CB, DSO | 1902 | 1996 | Retired List on 7 June 1959. |
c 1954 | Sir Frank Trowbridge Mason, KCB | 1988 | ||
1 February 1955 [137] | Sir Gerald Vaughan Gladstone, GBE, KCB | 1901 | 1978 | Promoted Admiral in 1958. |
22 April 1955 | Leslie Newton Brownfield, CB, CBE | 1901 | 1968 | Retired List on 28 December 1957. [133] |
30 June 1956 [138] | Sir Hilary Worthington Biggs, KBE, CB, DSO | 1905 | 1976 | Retired in 1958. |
12 July 1956 [138] | Sir Robin Leonard Francis Durnford-Slater, KCB | 1902 | 1984 | Promoted Admiral. |
Sir William Geoffrey Arthur Robson, KBE, CB, DSO | 1902 | 1989 | Retired List on 7 July 1958. [139] | |
Sir John Peter Lorne Reid, GCB, CVO | 1903 | 1973 | Promoted Admiral in 1958. | |
Sir Robert Cyril May, KBE, CB | Surgeon Vice-Admiral; Retired List on 30 April 1960. [140] | |||
27 December 1957 [133] | Sir William Kaye Edden, KBE, CB | 1905 | 1990 | Retired List on 21 May 1960. [141] |
7 January 1958 [133] | Sir John Gilchrist Thesiger Inglis, KBE, CB | 1906 | 1972 | Retired in 1960. |
31 January 1958 [133] | Sir John David Luce, KCB | 1906 | 1971 | Promoted Admiral in 1960. |
31 January 1958 [133] | Sir Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods, GBE, KCB | 1906 | 1975 | Promoted Admiral in 1960. |
14 February 1958 [133] | Sir Douglas Eric Holland-Martin, GCB, DSO, DSC | 1906 | 1977 | Promoted Admiral. |
Sir Manley Laurence Power, KCB, CBE, DSC | 1904 | 1981 | Promoted Admiral in 1960. | |
Sir Alexander Noel Campbell Bingley, GCB, OBE | 1905 | 1972 | Promoted Admiral in 1960. | |
7 July 1958 [139] | Sir Laurence Durlacher KCB OBE DSC | 1904 | 1986 | Promoted Admiral in 1961. |
Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet | 1906 | 2001 | Promoted Admiral in 1961. | |
3 November 1958 [136] | Sir St John Reginald Joseph Tyrwhitt, 2nd Bt, KCB, DSO, DSC | 1905 | 1961 | Promoted Admiral in 1961. |
1959 | Sir John Strike Lancaster, KBE, CB | 1903 | 1992 | Retired in 1962. |
Sir William Robert Sylvester Panckridge, KBE, CB | Surgeon Vice Admiral; Retired list on 30 April 1963. [142] | |||
Sir William Godfrey Crawford, KBE, CB, DSC | 1907 | 2003 | Retired list on 20 February 1963. [142] | |
Sir Nicholas Alfred Copeman, KBE, CB, DSC | 1906 | 1969 | Retired list on 11 March 1963. [142] | |
Sir Reginald Thomas Sandars, KBE, CB | Retired List on 26 May 1962. [143] | |||
Sir John Michael Villiers, KCB, OBE | 1907 | 1990 | Retired list on 26 November 1963. [144] | |
21 May 1960 [141] | Sir Varyl Cargill Begg, GCB, DSO, DSC | 1908 | 1995 | Promoted Admiral in 1963. |
22 July 1960 [145] | Sir Robert Alastair Ewing, KBE, CB, DSC | 1909 | 1997 | Retired List in 1962. |
17 August 1960 [146] | Sir Nigel Stuart Henderson, GCB, KCB | 1909 | 1993 | Promoted Admiral in 1963. |
22 August 1960 [146] | Sir Hector Charles Donald Maclean, KBE, CB, DSC | 1908 | 2003 | |
Sir Desmond Parry Dreyer, GCB, DSC | 1910 | 2003 | Promoted Admiral in 1965. | |
Sir Norman Egbert Denning, KBE, CB | 1904 | 1979 | Retired List on 28 September 1965. [147] | |
Sir John Graham Hamilton, GBE, CB | 1910 | 1994 | Promoted Admiral in 1965. | |
March 1961 | Peter William Gretton, KCB, DSO, OBE | 1912 | 1992 | Fifth Sea Lord, 1962; Retired List on 30 May 1963. [148] |
25 October 1961 [149] | Sir Michael Le Fanu, GCB, DSC | 1913 | 1970 | Promoted Admiral in 1965. |
26 May 1962 [143] | Sir Richard Michael Smeeton, KCB, MBE | 1912 | 1992 | Retired List on 5 November 1965. [147] |
Sir Arthur Ellison Fitzroy Talbot, KBE, CB, DSO | 1909 | 1998 | Retired list on 30 August 1967. [150] | |
20 February 1963 [142] | Sir Frank Roddam Twiss, KCB, KCVO, DSC | 1910 | 1994 | Promoted Admiral in 1967. |
15 March 1963 [142] | Sir Antony Bartholomew Cole, KBE, CB, DSC | Retired List on 7 August 1965. [151] | ||
6 April 1963 [142] | Sir Ronald Vernon Brockman, KCB, CSI, CIE, CVO, CBE | 1909 | 1999 | Retired list on 6 December 1965. [152] |
30 May 1963 [148] | Sir Isaac William Trant Beloe, KBE, CB, DSC | 1909 | 1966 | |
14 August 1963 [148] | Jack Percival Scatchard, CB, DSC | 1910 | 2001 | Retired in 1964. |
5 June 1965 [151] | Sir Horace Rochfort Law, GCB, OBE, DSC | 1911 | 2005 | Promoted Admiral in 1968. |
16 June 1965 [153] | Sir Hugh Martell, KBE, CB | 1912 | 1998 | Retired List on 14 December 1967. [154] |
7 August 1965 [153] | Peter John Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, GCB | 1915 | 2004 | Promoted Admiral in 1968. |
11 August 1965 [147] | Sir Charles Peter Graham Walker, KBE, CB, DSC | Retired list on 30 September 1967. [155] | ||
28 September 1965 [147] | John Michael Dudgeon Gray, KBE, CB | 1913 | 1998 | Retired list on 29 September 1967. [155] |
29 September 1965 [147] | Sir John Osler Chattock Hayes, KCB, OBE | 1913 | 1998 | Retired in 1968. |
9 February 1966 [156] | Sir Horace Collier Lyddon, KBE, CB | 1912 | 1968 | |
13 April 1966 [157] | Sir Ian Leslie Trower Hogg, KCB, DSC | 1911 | 2003 | Retired list on 6 April 1970. [158] |
1966 | Sir Eric Dick Caldwell, KBE, CB | 1907 | 2000 | Surgeon Vice Admiral; Retired list on 11 August 1969. [159] |
Sir Charles Piercy Mills, KCB, CBE, DSC | 1914 | 2006 | Retired in 1969. | |
29 September 1967 [160] | Sir Patrick Uniacke Bayly, KBE, CB, DSC | 1914 | 1998 | Retired list on 15 July 1970. [161] |
29 September 1967 [162] | Sir Donald Cameron Ernest Forbes Gibson, KCB, DSC | Retired | ||
30 September 1967 [162] | Wilfred John Parker, CB, OBE, DSC | Retired | ||
27 November 1967 [163] | Sir Hugh Richard Benest Janvrin, KCB, DSC | 1915 | 1993 | Retired list on 15 January 1971. [164] |
14 December 1967 [163] | Sir Ian Lachlan Mackay McGeoch, KCB, DSO, DSC | 1914 | 2007 | Retired in 1970. |
14 December 1967 [163] | Sir William Donough O'Brien, KCB, DSC | 1916 | 2016 | Promoted Admiral in 1970. |
26 December 1967 [154] | Sir Michael Patrick Pollock, GCB, LVO, DSC | 1916 | 2006 | Promoted Admiral in 1970. |
June 1968 | Sir Arthur Francis Turner, KCB, DSC | 1912 | 1991 | Promoted Admiral in 1970. |
24 July 1968 [165] | Sir Edward Beckwith Ashmore, GCB, DSC | 1919 | 2016 | Promoted Admiral in 1970. |
20 September 1968 [166] | Sir Peter Maxwell Compston, KCB | 1915 | 2000 | Retired list on 24 December 1970. [167] |
20 September 1968 [166] | Sir Andrew MacKenzie Lewis, KCB | 1918 | 1993 | Promoted Admiral in 1971. |
1 October 1968 [168] | Dennis Howard Mason, CB, CVO | 1916 | 1996 | Retired List on 7 October 1970. [169] |
13 November 1968 [170] | Sir Anthony Templer Frederick Griffith Griffin, GCB | 1920 | 1996 | Promoted Admiral in 1971. |
5 December 1968 [171] | Sir Robert George Raper, KCB | 1915 | 1990 | Retired List on 6 July 1974. [172] |
14 July 1969 [170] | Sir Eric Blackburn Bradbury, KBE, CB | 1911 | 2003 | Surgeon Rear-Admiral; Retired in 1972. |
16 October 1969 [173] | Sir Peter William Beckwith Ashmore, KCB, KCVO, DSC | 1921 | 2002 | Retired list on 12 December 1972. [174] |
6 April 1970 [175] | Denis Bryan Harvey Wildish, CB | 1914 | 2017 | Retired list on 14 September 1972. [176] |
21 April 1970 [175] | Sir Leslie Derek Empson, GBE, KCB | 1918 | 1997 | Promoted Admiral in 1972. |
21 April 1970 [175] | Sir John Edward Ludgate Martin, KCB, DSC | 1918 | 2011 | Retired list on 24 April 1973. [177] |
21 April 1970 [175] | Sir Louis Edward Stewart Holland Le Bailly, KBE, CB | 1915 | 2010 | Retired list on 2 September 1972. [176] |
10 June 1970 [178] | Sir Michael Frampton Fell, KCB, DSO, DSC | 1918 | 1976 | Retired list on 7 October 1974. [179] |
15 July 1970 [161] | Sir John Charles Young Roxburg, KCB, CBE, DSO, DSC | 1919 | 2004 | Retired List on 3 October 1972. [180] |
7 October 1970 [181] | Terence Thornton Lewin, Baron Lewin, KG, GCB, LVO, DSC | 1920 | 1999 | Promoted Admiral in 1973. |
20 November 1970 [182] | Sir Ian Stewart McIntosh, KBE, CB, DSO, DSC | 1919 | 2003 | Retired list on 5 September 1973. [183] |
24 December 1970 [167] | Sir John Rae McKaig, KCB, CBE | 1922 | 1996 | Retired in 1976. |
21 August 1971 [184] | Sir George Francis Allan Trewby, KCB | 1917 | 2001 | Retired List on 19 August 1974. [185] |
29 November 1971 [186] | Sir Arthur Mackenzie Power, KCB, MBE | 1921 | 1984 | Retired list on 7 April 1975. [187] |
1 August 1972 [188] | Sir Edward Gerard Napier Mansfield, KBE, CVO | 1921 | 2006 | Retired list on 7 July 1975. [187] |
2 September 1972 [189] | Sir John Anthony Rose Troup, KCB, DSC | 1921 | 2008 | Retired in 1977. |
14 September 1972 [176] | Sir Ian Easton, KCB, DSC | 1917 | 1989 | Promoted Admiral. |
3 October 1972 [180] | Sir John Ernle Pope, KCB | 1921 | 1998 | Retired list on 7 October 1976. [190] |
24 April 1973 [177] | Sir Iwan Geoffrey Raikes, KCB, CBE, DSC | 1921 | 2011 | Retired List on 25 January 1977. [191] |
5 September 1973 [192] | Sir David Williams, GCB | 1921 | 2012 | Promoted Admiral in 1974. |
1 December 1973 [193] | Sir Peter White, GBE | 1919 | 2010 | Promoted Admiral in 1976. |
1 December 1973 [193] | Sir John Deveraux Treacher, KCB | 1924 | 2018 | Promoted Admiral in 1975. |
13 May 1974 [194] | Sir Philip Alexander Watson, KBE, LVO | 1919 | 2009 | Retired List on 31 March 1977. [195] |
6 July 1974 [196] | Sir Henry Conyers Leach, GCB | 1923 | 2011 | Promoted Admiral in 1977. |
8 September 1974 [197] | Sir James George Jungius, KBE | 1923 | 2020 | Retired List on 21 April 1980. [198] |
Sir Peter Murray Austin, KCB | Retired list on 7 October 1976. [190] | |||
Sir Allen Gordon Tait, KCB | 1921 | 2005 | Promoted Admiral in 1978. | |
Sir James Watt, KBE | 1914 | 2009 | Surgeon Vice Admiral; Retired List on 30 March 1977. [199] | |
7 April 1975 [187] | Sir Anthony Storrs Morton, GBE, KCB | 1923 | 2006 | Promoted Admiral. |
7 April 1975 [187] | Sir Raymond Derek Lygo, KCB | 1924 | 2012 | Promoted Admiral in 1977. |
15 December 1975 [200] | Sir Richard Pilkington Clayton, GCB | 1925 | 1984 | Promoted Admiral in 1978. |
6 January 1976 [201] | Sir Lancelot Richard Bell Davies, KBE | |||
28 June 1976 [202] | Sir Roderick Douglas Macdonald, KBE | 1921 | 2001 | Retired List on 16 May 1979. [203] |
7 October 1976 [190] | Sir Arthur Desmond Cassidi, GCB | 1925 | 2019 | Promoted Admiral in 1979. |
7 October 1976 [190] | Sir Peter Egerton Capel Berger, KCB, LVO, DSC | 1925 | 2003 | Retired list on 7 April 1981. [204] |
25 January 1977 [205] | Sir James Henry Fuller Eberle, GCB | 1927 | 2018 | Promoted Admiral in 1979. |
9 February 1977 [206] | Sir John Morrison Forbes, KCB | 1925 | 2021 | Retired List on 2 April 1979. [207] |
30 March 1977 [208] | Sir John Stuart Pepys Rawlins, KBE | 1922 | 2011 | Surgeon Vice Admiral; Retired List on 17 May 1980. [209] |
31 March 1977 [195] | Sir Cameron Rusby, KCB, LVO | 1926 | 2013 | Retired List on 22 October 1982. [210] |
31 March 1977 [211] | Sir David Anning Loram, KCB, CVO | 1924 | 2011 | Retired List on 2 May 1980. [198] |
2 September 1977 [212] | Sir Stephen Ferrier Berthon, KCB | 1922 | 2007 | Retired list on 3 April 1981. [204] |
14 March 1978 [213] | Sir Roy William Halliday, KBE, DSC | 1923 | 2007 | Retired list on 4 April 1981. [204] |
28 March 1978 [214] | Sir John Stuart Crosbie Lea, KBE | 1923 | 2015 | Retired List on 11 April 1980. [215] |
1 April 1978 [216] | John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, GCB, GBE | 1928 | 1992 | Promoted Admiral in 1981. |
2 April 1979 [207] | Sir William Thomas Pillar, GBE, KCB | 1924 | 1999 | Promoted Admiral in 1982. |
4 May 1979 [217] | Sir Peter William Buchanan, KBE | 1925 | 2011 | Retired list on 5 April 1982. [218] |
16 May 1979 [203] | Sir Thomas Henry Eustace Baird, KCB | 1924 | Retired List on 1 April 1982. [218] | |
6 July 1979 [219] | Sir Lindsay Sutherlands Bryson, KCB | 1925 | 2005 | Promoted Admiral. |
27 September 1979 [220] | Sir Edwin John Horlick, KBE | 1925 | 2021 | Retired list on 27 June 1983. [221] |
18 March 1980 [222] | Sir John Albert Bews Harrison, KBE | Surgeon Vice Admiral; Retired list on 30 August 1983. [223] | ||
11 April 1980 [215] | Sir William Doveton Minet Staveley, GCB | 1928 | 1997 | Promoted Admiral in 1982. |
2 May 1980 [224] | Robert Risley Squires | 1927 | 2016 | Retired list on 1 February 1984. [225] |
18 November 1980 [226] | Sir Simon Alastair Cassillis Cassels, KCB, CBE | 1928 | 2019 | Promoted Admiral in 1984. |
4 April 1981 [227] | Sir John Michael Holland Cox, KCB | 1928 | 2006 | Retired in 1984. |
7 April 1981 [227] | Sir James Edward Campbell Kennon, KCB, CBE | 1925 | 1991 | Retired list on 24 February 1984. [228] |
23 July 1981 [229] | Sir Peter Geoffrey Marshall Herbert, KCB, OBE | 1929 | 2019 | Promoted Admiral in 1983. |
1 April 1982 [218] | Sir David John Hallifax, KCB, KCVO, KBE | 1927 | 1992 | Promoted Admiral in 1986. |
5 April 1982 [218] | Sir John Frederick Cadell, KBE | 1929 | 1998 | Retired List on 2 July 1985. [230] |
8 June 1982 [231] | Sir Edward Rosebery Anson, KCB | Retired List on 3 November 1984. [232] | ||
23 September 1982 [233] | Sir David Worthington Brown, KCB | 1927 | 2005 | Retired list on 25 July 1985. [234] |
1 October 1982 [235] | Sir Peter Maxwell Stanford, GCB, LVO | 1929 | 1991 | Promoted Admiral in 1985. |
11 April 1983 [236] | Sir Anthony Sanders Tippet, KCB | 1928 | 2006 | Retired List on 20 January 1987. [237] |
28 June 1983 [221] | Roger John William Lambert | 1984 | Surgeon Vice Admiral | |
1 July 1983 [221] | Sir Derek Roy Reffell, KCB | 1928 | Promoted Admiral in 1988. | |
6 December 1983 [238] | Sir Nicholas John Streynsham Hunt, GCB, LVO | 1930 | 2013 | Promoted Admiral in 1985. |
24 February 1984 [228] | Sir Richard George Alison Fitch, KCB | 1929 | 1994 | |
7 September 1984 [239] | Sir John Forster Woodward, GBE, KCB | 1932 | 2013 | Promoted Admiral in 1987. |
15 November 1984 [240] | Sir Robert William Frank Gerken, KCB, CBE | 1932 | 2022 | Retired List on 29 April 1987. [241] |
23 November 1984 [240] | Sir Geoffrey Thomas James Oliver Dalton, KCB | 1931 | 2020 | Retired List on 10 September 1987. [242] |
25 March 1985 [243] | Sir Patrick Jeremy Symons, KBE | |||
10 May 1985 [244] | Sir George Montague Francis Vallings, KCB | 1932 | 2007 | Retired List on 18 November 1987. [245] |
29 May 1985 [246] | Sir John Morrison Webster, KCB | 1932 | 2020 | Retired List on 1 June 1990. [247] |
3 January 1986 | Sir John Julian Robertson Oswald, GCB | 1933 | 2011 | Promoted Admiral in 1987. |
26 August 1986 [248] | Sir Hugh Leslie Owen Thompson, KBE | 1931 | 1996 | Retired List 1990 |
15 October 1986 [249] | Sir John Jeremy Black, GBE, KCB, DSO | 1932 | 2015 | Promoted Admiral in 1989 |
22 December 1986 [250] | Sir David Benjamin Bathurst, GCB | 1936 | Promoted Admiral in 1989. | |
Sir Michael Howard Livesay, KCB | 1936 | 2003 | Promoted Admiral | |
10 April 1987 [251] | Sir William Richard Scott Thomas, KCB, KCVO, OBE | 1932 | 1998 | |
20 October 1987 [252] | Sir John Cunningham Kirkwood Slater, GCB, LVO | 1938 | Promoted Admiral in 1991. | |
1 January 1988 [253] | Sir Godfrey James Milton-Thompson, KBE | 1930 | 2012 | Surgeon Vice Admiral; Retired List in 1995. |
1 February 1988 [254] | Sir John Beverley Kerr, GCB | 1937 | 2019 | Promoted Admiral in 1991. |
10 March 1988 [255] | Sir Norman Ross Dutton King, KBE | 1933 | 2013 | Retired List on 26 June 1991. [256] |
28 September 1988 [257] | Sir Brian Thomas Brown KCB CBE | 1934 | 2020 | Promoted Admiral in 1989. |
Sir Alan Grose, KBE | 1937 | |||
1989 | Sir James Lamb Weatherall, KCVO, KBE | 1936 | 2018 | |
Sir Robert Hill, KBE | Retired List, 17 April 1993. [258] | |||
1991? | Sir Neville Purvis, KCB | 1936 | Retired List, 18 April 1994. [259] | |
Sir John Francis Coward, KCB, DSO | 1937 | 2020 | Retired List, 29 May 1994. [260] | |
Sir David Stuart Dobson, KBE | 1938 | Retired List, 1 June 1994. [260] | ||
1991? | Sir Anthony Peter Woodhead, KCB | 1939 | Retired List, 30 April 1994. [261] | |
Sir Michael Henry Gordon Layard, KCB, CBE | 1936 | Promoted Admiral | ||
1992 | Sir Geoffrey William Roger Biggs, KCB | 1938 | 2002 | Retired List, 29 April 1995. [262] |
The Honourable Sir Nicholas John Hill-Norton, KCB | 1939 | Retired List, 2 June 1995. [263] | ||
Sir Michael Antony Claes Moore, KBE, LVO | 1942 | Retired List, 15 January 1998. [264] | ||
1993? | Sir Peter Charles Abbott, GBE, KCB | 1942 | 2015 | Promoted Admiral in 1995. |
Anthony Leslie Revell, CB, QHS | 1935 | 2018 | Surgeon Vice Admiral; Retired List, 28 April 1997. [265] | |
Sir Charles Christopher Morgan, KBE | 1939 | |||
Sir Richard Tobias Frere, KCB | 1938 | 2020 | Retired List on 11 July 1997. [266] | |
Sir Roy Thomas Newman, KCB | 1936 | Retired List on 26 April 1996. [267] | ||
Sir Jonathan James Richard Tod, KCB, CBE | 1939 | Retired List on 29 August 1997. [268] | ||
Sir Robert Walmsley, KCB | 1941 | 2022 | ||
February 1994 | Michael Cecil Boyce, Baron Boyce, KG, GCB, OBE | 1943 | 2022 | Promoted Admiral in 1995. |
1994 | Michael Peter Gretton, CB | 1946 | Retired List on 21 April 1998. [269] | |
April 1995 | Sir John Richard Brigstocke, KCB | 1945 | 2020 | Promoted Admiral in 1997. |
Sir Ian David Graham Garnett, KCB | 1944 | Promoted Admiral in 2001. | ||
Sir John Hugh Dunt, KCB | 1944 | Retired List on 11 July 2000. [270] | ||
John Henry Stuart McAnally, CB, LVO | 1945 | Retired List 2001. | ||
Sir Fabian Michael Malbon, KBE | 1946 | Retired List on 15 June 2002. [271] | ||
Sir Jeremy Joe Blackham, KCB | 1943 | Retired List on 8 September 2002. [272] | ||
Sir Andrew David Hugh Mathews, KCB | 1958 | Retired List on 26 March 2014. [273] | ||
Sir David Anthony James Blackburn, KCVO, CB | 1945 | Retired List on 12 February 2000. [274] | ||
Ian Lawrence Jenkins, CB, CVO | 1944 | 2009 | Surgeon Vice Admiral; Retired List on 16 January 2007. [275] | |
Peter Arthur Dunt, CB | 1947 | Retired List on 9 August 2007. [276] | ||
Sir Peter Spencer, KCB | 1947 | Retired List on 25 April 2003. [277] | ||
Robert George Cooling, CB | 1957 | Retired List on 31 Mar 2012 [278] | ||
Sir Paul Lambert, KCB | 1954 | Retired List on 3 April 2012. [278] | ||
Philip Iain Raffaelli, CB | 1955 | Surgeon Vice Admiral; Retired List on 15 May 2013. [279] | ||
October 1997 | Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead, GCB, DSC | 1948 | Promoted Admiral in 2000. | |
Sir Paul Kenneth Haddacks, KCB | 1946 | |||
January 2000 | Sir Jonathon Band, GCB | 1950 | Promoted Admiral in 2002. | |
14 November 2002 [280] | The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, OM | 1948 | Promoted Admiral in 2006. | |
2003 | Sir James Michael Burnell-Nugent, KCB, CBE | 1949 | Promoted Admiral in 2005. | |
18 June 2004 [281] | Sir Timothy Pentreath McClement, KCB, OBE | 1951 | Retired List on 26 December 2006 [275] | |
16 September 2004 [282] | Rory Alistair Ian McLean, CB, OBE | 1950 | Retired List on 6 December 2007. [283] | |
25 October 2005 [284] | Sir Adrian James Johns, KCB, CBE | 1951 | Retired List on 4 November 2008. [285] | |
10 January 2006 [286] | Charles Rodney Style, CBE | 1954 | Retired List on 11 January 2008. [287] | |
30 March 2006 [288] | Sir Anthony Knox Dymock, KBE, CB | 1949 | Retired List on 18 February 2009. [289] | |
31 October 2006 [290] | Robin Paul Boissier, CB | 1953 | Retired List on 3 July 2009. [291] | |
16 January 2007 [292] | Sir Trevor Alan Soar, KCB, OBE | 1957 | Promoted to Admiral in 2009. | |
30 April 2007 [293] | Sir Timothy James Hamilton Laurence, KCVO, CB | 1955 | Retired List on 15 August 2010. [294] | |
31 August 2007 [295] | Peter John Wilkinson, CB, CVO | 1956 | Retired List on 21 October 2010. [296] | |
2008 | Sir Richard Jeffrey Ibbotson, KBE, CB, DSC | 1954 | Retired List on 19 May 2011. [297] | |
15 July 2008 [298] | Sir Alan Michael Massey, KCB, CBE | 1953 | Retired List on 8 October 2010. [299] | |
1 December 2009 [300] | The Princess Anne, Princess Royal, KG, KT, GCVO | 1950 | Promoted Admiral in 2012. | |
19 July 2010 [301] | Sir Charles Percival Ross Montgomery, KBE | 1955 | Retired List on 16 March 2013. [302] | |
18 January 2011 [303] | Sir George Michael Zambellas, GCB, DSC | 1958 | Promoted Admiral in 2012. | |
22 November 2011 [304] | Sir Charles Anthony Johnstone-Burt, KCVO, CB, OBE | 1958 | Retired List on 30 November 2013. [305] | |
13 December 2011 [306] | Sir Philip Andrew Jones, GCB | 1960 | Promoted Admiral in 2016. | |
19 January 2012 [307] | Alan David Richards, CB | 1958 | Retired List on 7 May 2015. [308] | |
10 October 2012 [309] | Sir David George Steel, KBE | 1961 | Retired List on 15 October 2015. [310] | |
14 February 2013 [311] | Peter Derek Hudson, CB, CBE | 1961 | Retired List on 30 January 2016. [312] | |
30 May 2013 [313] | Sir Ian Fergus Corder, KBE, CB | 1960 | Retired List on 1 July 2016. [314] | |
27 November 2013 [315] | Sir Simon Robert Lister, KCB, OBE | 1959 | Retired List on 25 October 2019. [316] | |
18 September 2014 [317] | Duncan Laurence Potts, CB | 1961 | Retired List on 13 October 2018. [318] | |
19 February 2015 [319] | The Prince Andrew, Duke of York, KG, GCVO, ADC | 1960 | ||
9 March 2015 [320] | Prince Michael of Kent, GCVO | 1942 | Honorary Vice-Admiral Royal Naval Reserve. | |
10 March 2015 [320] | Sir Simon Jonathan Woodcock, KCB, OBE | 1962 | Retired List on 30 June 2018. [321] | |
2 April 2015 [322] | Jeffrey Maurice Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow, GCVO, CBE | 1934 | Honorary Vice-Admiral Royal Naval Reserve. | |
2 April 2015 [322] | Sir Frederick Donald Gosling, KCVO | 1929 | 2019 | Honorary Vice-Admiral Royal Naval Reserve. |
15 October 2015 [323] | Sir Clive Charles Carruthers Johnstone, KBE, CB | 1963 | 2024 | Retired List on 1 January 2020. [324] |
17 December 2015 [325] | Alasdair James Walker, CB, OBE | 1956 | 2019 | Surgeon Vice-Admiral; Surgeon General of the Armed Forces 2015–2018; Retired List on 1 May 2019. [326] |
10 February 2016 [327] | Sir Benjamin John Key, KCB, CBE | 1965 | Promoted Admiral in 2021. | |
26 June 2017 [328] | Sir Timothy Peter Fraser, KCB | 1959/60 | Promoted Admiral in 2019. | |
27 March 2018 [329] | Sir Antony David Radakin, KCB | 1965 | Promoted Admiral in 2019. | |
16 July 2018 [330] | Paul Martin Bennett, CB, OBE | 1964 | Retired List on 1 February 2022. [331] | |
5 March 2019 [332] | Jeremy Paul Kyd, CBE | 1967 | Retired List on 11 March 2022. [333] | |
8 March 2019 [332] | Sir Christopher Reginald Summers Gardner, KBE | 1962 | ||
28 April 2019 [334] | Sir Nicholas William Hine, KCB | 1966 | Retired List on 5 May 2022. [335] | |
20 May 2019 [334] | Sir Keith Edward Blount, KCB, OBE | 1966 | Promoted Admiral in 2023. | |
1 September 2020 [336] | Sir Richard Charles Thompson, KCB, CBE | 1966 | Retired List on 16 October 2024. [337] | |
5 July 2021 [338] | Guy Antony Robinson, CB, OBE | 1967 | ||
24 September 2021 [339] | Andrew Paul Burns, CB, OBE | 1969 | ||
12 January 2022 [340] | Martin John Connell, CBE | 1968 | ||
12 December 2022 [341] | Philip John Hally, CB, MBE | |||
13 January 2023 [342] | Michael Keith Utley, CB, OBE | 1970 | ||
21 April 2023 [343] | Paul Marshall, CB, CBE | |||
18 September 2023 [344] | Andrew Jeffery Kyte, CB | 1966 | ||
1 May 2024 [345] | Edward Graham Ahlgren, OBE | 1971 | ||
8 July 2024 [346] | Simon Philip Asquith, CB, OBE | 1972 | ||
14 October 2024 [347] | James David Morley, CB | 1969 |
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