Patrick Rowe (Royal Navy officer)

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Rear-Admiral Sir Patrick Barton Rowe, KCVO CBE (14 April 1939 – 27 January 2025) was a British Royal Navy officer.

Biography

The son of a Royal Navy captain, Rowe entered the Navy himself in 1960; after serving in the Far East Fleet and then in various command and staff roles, he was appointed Military Deputy to the head of the government's Defence Export Services Organisation in 1990, serving until 1992. The following year, he became clerk to the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers, and then in 1996 he was appointed Deputy Master of Trinity House and Chairman of the General Lighthouse Authority. He retired in 2002 [1] and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in that year's New Year Honours. [2] He had been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 New Year Honours. [3]

Rowe died on 27 January 2025, at the age of 85. [4]

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References

  1. "Rowe, Rear-Adm. Sir Patrick (Barton)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  2. "Knights Bachelor etc", BBC News , 31 December 2001. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  3. Supplement to the London Gazette , 29 December 1989 (issue 51981), p. 4.
  4. "Rear Admiral Sir Patrick Barton Rowe, KCVO, CBE". The Telegraph. 30 January 2025. Retrieved 30 January 2025.