Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe,1st Earl Jellicoe,was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War. His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial. Jellicoe made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port,at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain,but the public was disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a more dramatic victory given that they outnumbered the enemy. Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord,overseeing the expansion of the Naval Staff at the Admiralty and the introduction of convoys,but was relieved at the end of 1917. He also served as the governor-general of New Zealand in the early 1920s.
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 James Michael Burnell-Nugent,is a retired Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief Fleet from 2005 to 2007.
Admiral Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay,was a Royal Navy officer. He was the husband of Princess Patricia of Connaught,the youngest child of Prince Arthur,Duke of Connaught and Strathearn,third son of Queen Victoria. He served with distinction during the First World War. During the 1920s and 1930s,he held several important naval aviation commands.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Cargill Begg,was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Second World War as gunnery officer in a cruiser taking part in the North Atlantic convoys,the Norwegian campaign and the occupation of Iceland and then as gunnery officer in a battleship operating in the Mediterranean Fleet during the Battle of Cape Matapan. After that he commanded a destroyer during the Korean War and was Commander-in-Chief of Far East Command during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. He was First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the late 1960s. In that role he vehemently opposed plans to introduce large new aircraft carriers and instead managed to persuade the British Government to develop the design for three small "through-deck cruisers".
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 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.
Vice Admiral Sir Alan Michael Massey,KCB,CBE is a former senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as the Second Sea Lord.
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.
Admiral Sir Eric James Patrick Brind,was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as the first Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1951 to 1953.
Admiral Sir Michael Henry Gordon Layard,is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord from 1992 to 1995.
Admiral Sir Leslie Derek Empson,was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1974 to 1975.
Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore,was a Royal Navy officer who became both Commander-in-Chief,China and Commander-in-Chief,Portsmouth.
Admiral Sir Frederick Samuel Inglefield,was a Royal Navy officer who served as Fourth Sea Lord,was appointed as a Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy and commanded auxiliary patrol forces in World War I. After retirement he was a Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire.
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.
Admiral Sir Philip Andrew Jones,is a retired senior Royal Navy officer. After service in the South Atlantic in 1982 during the Falklands War,he commanded the frigates HMS Beaver and HMS Coventry. He went on to be Flag Officer,Scotland,Northern England and Northern Ireland,Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff before being appointed Fleet Commander and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff. Jones served as First Sea Lord from April 2016 to June 2019.
Admiral Sir Antony David Radakin,is a senior Royal Navy officer. He has served as Chief of the Defence Staff,the professional head of the British Armed Forces,since November 2021. Radakin was previously the First Sea Lord,the professional head of the Naval Service from June 2019 to November 2021. He was Chief of Staff,Joint Forces Command,from 2016 to 2018,and the Second Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff from 2018 to 2019. He was appointed Lord High Constable of England in 2023,and in that role took part in the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla.
Vice Admiral Sir Nicholas William Hine,is a retired senior Royal Navy officer. He served as Second Sea Lord from 2019 to 2022.
Admiral Sir Benjamin John Key,is a senior Royal Navy officer. He has served as First Sea Lord since November 2021. He has commanded HM Ships Sandown,Iron Duke and Lancaster,and deployed on operations to Kosovo and Iraq. He was appointed Fleet Commander in 2016,and the Chief of Joint Operations in 2019.
