List of Royal Navy rear admirals
Rear admiral (RAdm) is a flag officer rank of the British Royal Navy. It is immediately superior to commodore and is subordinate to vice admiral. It is a two-star rank and has a NATO ranking code of OF-7.
The rank originated in the days of naval sailing squadrons and each naval squadron would be assigned an admiral as its head. He would command from the centre vessel and direct the activities of the squadron. The admiral would in turn be assisted by a vice admiral, who commanded the lead ships which would bear the brunt of a naval battle. In the rear of the naval squadron, a third admiral would command the remaining ships and, as this section of the squadron was considered to be in the least danger, the admiral in command of the rear would typically be the most junior of the squadron admirals. This has survived into the modern age, with the rank of rear admiral the most-junior of the admiralty ranks of many navies.
List of Royal Navy rear admirals
- Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott
- Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet
- Nicholas Ingram (1754-1826)[1]
- Peter John Douglas (1787–1858)
- Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland, KCB
- George Cunningham Leslie
- Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles (1914–2013)
- Cloudesley Varyl Robinson (1882-1959)[2]
- James Frederick Thomas George "Sam" Salt (1940-3 Dec 2009)
List of Rear Admirals
Rear Admiral Edmund Irving KBE CB, Hydrographer of the Navy 1960 - 1965 Born 1910 Died 1990
Promoted February 1985 | Name: Rear Admiral Roger Oliver Morris CB, Hydrographer of the Navy 1985 - 1990 | Born: 1st. September 1932 | Died: 18th April 2020 | Died | Notes |
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1892 | James Albert Bedbrook | 1845 | 1902 | Retired 1901 | |
1892 | Francis Henry Blackburne | 1835 | 1902 | on the Retired list since 1890; promoted Vice Admiral on retired list in 1898 | |
Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont, GCB, KCMG | 1847 | 1922 | Promoted Vice Admiral in 1902 | ||
3 March 1900[3] | Sir Harry Tremenheere Grenfell, KCB, CMG | 1845 | 1906 | Promoted Vice Admiral on 20 February 1905 | |
21 March 1900[4] | Sir Baldwin Wake Walker | 1846 | 1905 | ||
9 September 1902[5] | Charles James Barlow, DSO | 1848 | 1921 | Promoted Vice Admiral on 23 November 1906[6] | |
22 September 1902[7] | Henry John May, CB | 1853 | 1904 | ||
3 October 1902[8] | Sir Hedworth Meux, GCB, KCVO | 1856 | 1929 | Promoted Vice Admiral in 1907 | |
3 October 1902[8] | Charles James Norcock | 1847 | 1933 | on the Retired list since September 1902[9] | |
23 November 1906[6] | William Blake Fisher, CB | 1853 | 1926 | ||
23 November 1906[6] | Francis Raymond Pelly | 1850 | 1907 | on the retired list from 1905 | |
John Gordon Tolhurst, CB | 1943 | Retired list 1997 | |||
Richard Oran Irwin, CB | |||||
Roger Charles Lane-Nott, CB | 1945 | ||||
Roger Charles Moylan-Jones | 1940 | Retired list 26 April 1995[10] | |||
M. R. Thomas | Retired list 30 April 1996[11] | ||||
Frederick Brian Goodson, CB, OBE | 1938 | Retired list 4 May 1996[11] | |||
John Patrick Clarke, CB, LVO, MBE | |||||
Frederick Peter Scourse, CB, MBE | 1944 | Retired list 2 May 1997[12] | |||
Terence William Loughran, CB | |||||
David John Wood, CB | |||||
Richard Thomas Ryder Phillips, CB | |||||
Paul Anthony Moseley Thomas, CB | |||||
Andrew Bankes Gough, CB | |||||
John Allan Trewby, CB | |||||
M. P. W. H. Paine | Surgeon Rear Admiral; Retired list 4 July 1999[13] | ||||
J. A. Burch, CBE | Retired list 5 July 2000[14] | ||||
John Chadwick, CB | Retired list 8 November 2001[15] | ||||
Robert Patrick Stevens, CB | |||||
Brian Benjamin Perowne, CB | 1947 | ||||
1998 | Iain Robert Henderson, CB, CBE | Retired list 31 October 2001[15] | |||
Sir Jeremy Michael de Halpert, KCVO, CB | 1947 | Retired list 2002 | |||
Sir Patrick Barton Rowe, KCVO, CBE | |||||
Alastair Boyd Ross CB, CBE No 55513 The London Gazette 12 June 1999 | |||||
2000 | Nigel Charles Forbes Guild, CB | 1949 | |||
2001 | Niall Stuart Roderick Kilgour, CB | 1950 | Retired list 25 September 2004[16] | ||
Rees Graham John Ward, CB | |||||
Christopher David Stanford, CB | |||||
Philip Duncan Greenish, CBE | |||||
Peter Roland Davies, CB, CBE | |||||
James Campsie Rapp, CB | |||||
Richard John Lippiett, CB, CBE | 1949 | ||||
Alexander Kirkwood Backus, CB, OBE | |||||
Jonathon Reeve, CB | 1949 | ||||
Roger Graham Lockwood, CB | |||||
2003 | Richard Frank Cheadle, CB | 1950 | |||
2003 | Nicholas Henry Linton Harris, CB, MBE | 1952 | |||
2004 | Philip Lawrence Wilcocks, CB, DSC | 1953 | |||
Simon Richard James Goodall, CBE | Retired list 10 December 2005[17] | ||||
R. S. Ainsley | Retired list 9 October 2006[18] | ||||
David George Snelson, CB | 1951 | Retired list 16 October 2006[18] | |||
30 August 2004 | Christopher Hugh Trevor Clayton | Retired list 29 December 2007[19] | |||
2 September 2004[16] | Nigel J. F. Raby, OBE | Retired list 18 November 2006[18] | |||
S. M. Henley, MBE | Retired list 11 August 2007[20] | ||||
7 September 2004[16] | Kim J. Borley, CB | Retired list 17 August 2007[21] | |||
Robert Love, CB, OBE | Retired list 26 October 2011[22] | ||||
10 November 2005[23] | Neil Morisetti, CB | Retired list | |||
29 August 2006[24] | Sir George Michael Zambellas, GCB, DSC | 1958 | Promoted Vice Admiral in 2011 | ||
31 August 2006[24] | Amjad Mazhar Hussain, CB | 1958 | Retired list 22 June 2012[25] | ||
9 January 2007[26] | Christopher A. Snow, CBE | Retired list 12 November 2011[27] | |||
7 October 2013[28] | Malcolm Charles Cree, CBE | ||||
A. J. Rix, CB | Retired list 8 December 2010[29] | ||||
Thomas Michael Karsten, CBE | Retired list 19 September 2015[30] | ||||
Richard Derek Leaman, CB, OBE | 1956 | Retired list 31 Mar 2010[31] | |||
30 April 2007[32] | Ian Moncrieff, CBE | ||||
1 August 2007[20] | Alan David Richards, CB | 1958 | Promoted Vice Admiral in 2012 | ||
5 February 2008[19] | Simon B. Charlier | ||||
14 February 2008[33] | Sir Philip Andrew Jones, KCB | 1960 | Promoted Vice Admiral in 2011 | ||
June 2008 | Lionel John Jarvis, CBE | Surgeon Rear Admiral; Retired list 26 June 2012[34] | |||
2 March 2009[35] | Sir Frederick Donald Gosling, KCVO | 1929 | Honorary Rear Admiral Royal Naval Reserve, promoted Honorary Vice Admiral RNR in 2015 | ||
19 February 2010[36] | The Prince Andrew, Duke of York, KG, GCVO, ADC | 1960 | Promoted Vice Admiral in 2015 | ||
29 March 2010[31] | Thomas A. Cunnigham | ||||
28 April 2010[37] | Alan R. Rymer | ||||
30 April 2010[31] | Sir David George Steel, KBE | 1961 | Promoted Vice Admiral in 2012 | ||
7 June 2010[38] | Philip B. Mathias, CBE | ||||
1 August 2010[39] | Jeffrey Maurice Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow, GCVO, CBE | 1934 | Honorary Rear Admiral Royal Naval Reserve, promoted Honorary Vice Admiral RNR in 2015 | ||
28 November 2011[22] | John Howard James Gower, CB OBE | 1960 | |||
16 January 2012[40] | Timothy Peter Fraser, CB | Promoted vice admiral in 2017 | |||
11 September 2012[41] | Simon Jonathan Woodcock, OBE | 1962 | Promoted vice admiral in 2015 | ||
17 September 2012[41] | Timothy Miles Lowe, CBE | ||||
17 September 2012[41] | Simon Paul Williams, CB, CVO | ||||
27 May 2014[42] | Graeme A. MacKay | ||||
26 August 2014[43] | John Robert Hamilton Clink, CBE | ||||
28 October 2014[44] | Alexander J. Burton | Retired list 3 February 2018[45] | |||
4 November 2014[44] | Keith A. Beckett, CBE | ||||
3 December 2014[44] | Anthony David Radakin, CB | 1965 | Promoted vice admiral in 2018 | ||
James Anthony Morse, CB | |||||
30 April 2013[46] | Key, Benjamin J Benjamin J. Key | ||||
30 September 2013[47] | Michael P. Wareham | Retired list 4 May 2017[48] | |||
14 October 2013[47] | Simon James Ancona, CBE | Retired list 20 July 2017[49] | |||
14 October 2013[47] | John Matthew Leonard Kingwell, CBE | ||||
4 February 2013[50] | Paul Martin Bennett, CB, OBE | ||||
Henry Hardyman Parker, CB | 1963 | ||||
Robert Kenneth Tarrant, CB | 1961 | ||||
29 May 2015[51] | Keith Edward Blount, CB | 1966 | Promoted vice admiral in 2019 | ||
14 April 2015[52] | Richard Stokes, CBE | 1966 | |||
Nicholas William Hine, CB | 1966 | Promoted vice admiral in 2019 | |||
18 May 2015[53] | John Stuart Weale, CB, OBE | 1962 | |||
6 July 2015[54] | Paul A. McAlpine CBE ADC | ||||
8 December 2015[55] | Paul Austin Chivers, CBE | ||||
30 November 2015[56] | Christopher R.S. Gardner | ||||
1 July 2016[57] | Timothy C. Hodgson MBE | ||||
27 September 2016[58] | Richard C. Thompson CBE | ||||
12 December 2016[59] | Simon P. Hardern | ||||
16 January 2017[60] | William N. Entwisle OBE MVO | ||||
5 January 2017[61] | Paul Methven, CB | ||||
4 April 2017[62] | Jonathan Patrick Pentreath, CB, OBE | ||||
24 October 2017[63] | Paul V. Halton, OBE | ||||
13 November 2017[64] | Guy A. Robinson OBE | ||||
9 April 2018[65] | James D. Morley | ||||
12 June 2018[66] | William J. Warrender CBE | ||||
26 June 2018[67] | Michael A.W. Bath | ||||
3 July 2018[68] | Malcolm J. Toy | ||||
28 October 2018[69] | Jeremy P. Kyd | ||||
26 November 2018[70] | Hugh D. Beard |
See also
- List of senior officers of the Royal Navy
- List of British Army full generals
- List of Royal Navy admirals
- List of Royal Navy vice admirals
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