Admiral Sir William Wordsworth Fisher was a Royal Navy officer who captained a battleship at the Battle of Jutland and became Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. Arthur Marder wrote that he was "the outstanding admiral of the inter-war period".
St Piran's is a prep school located on Gringer Hill in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. The school was known as Cordwalles School until 1919 and has been co-educational since the 1990s.
Admiral Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton PC, styled as Lord Harry Powlett from 1754–65, was a British nobleman and naval officer.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edward Madden, 1st Baronet,, was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First World War as Chief of the Staff to Sir John Jellicoe in the Grand Fleet from 1914 to 1916 and as Second-in-Command of the fleet under Sir David Beatty from 1916 to 1919. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet after the war and served as First Sea Lord in the late 1920s. In that role, in order to avoid an arms race, he accepted parity with the United States in the form of 50 cruisers defending his position on the basis that he only actually had 48 cruisers anyway.
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 Sir Sydney Colpoys Dacres, was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the Greek War of Independence, when he was involved in an attack on the Turkish forces at Morea, and later during the Crimean War. Born into a substantial naval dynasty during the Napoleonic Wars, he eventually rose to the rank of Admiral and became First Naval Lord. His only significant action as First Naval Lord was to press for the abolition of masts. He went on to be Visitor and Governor of Greenwich Hospital.
Admiral Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe was a British naval officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1908 to 1910.
The Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic was an operational commander of the Royal Navy from 1939. The South American area was added to his responsibilities in 1960, and the post disestablished in 1967.
Major-General Alastair Andrew Bernard Reibey Bruce of Crionaich, is a journalist and television correspondent, and a senior British Army reservist and officer of arms in the Royal Household. He commanded the TA Media Operations Group before being appointed Governor of Edinburgh Castle in 2019.
Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson GCB was a senior officer in the Royal Navy. He was the Rear Admiral Commanding His Majesty's Australian Fleet from 9 January 1917 to 3 September 1918 and later Commander in Chief, China Station from 10 September 1922 to 22 April 1925.
Admiral Sir St. John Reginald Joseph Tyrwhitt, 2nd Baronet, was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1959 to 1961.
Admiral Sir William Wellclose Davis was a British Royal Navy officer who went on to be Vice Chief of the Naval Staff.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry John Codrington KCB was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, he saw action during the Greek War of Independence and was present at the Battle of Navarino. He later undertook a survey of enemy positions prior to the bombardment of Acre during the Egyptian–Ottoman War.
Vice Admiral Sir Frank Forrester Rose KCB DSO was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be commander-in-chief of East Indies Station.
Admiral Sir Reginald John James George Macdonald was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.
Admiral Sir Edward Bridges Rice, was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.
Admiral Sir John Peter Lorne Reid GCB CVO was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Controller of the Navy.
Rear Admiral John Gervaise Beresford Cooke CB DSC was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Ogle, 2nd Baronet was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, he saw action leading storming parties at the capture of Martinique and at the capture of Guadeloupe during the French Revolutionary Wars. He also took part in the landings in Egypt in the later stages of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Sir Michael Jeremiah Colman, 3rd Baronet was a British businessman. He served as director of Reckitt & Colman plc, the Church of England's First Church Estates Commissioner and founder of Summerdown, a commercial peppermint farm in Hampshire.
