Admirals of the Fleet, Royal Navy, 1734-1995

[Ken McCanliss]

Seniority List -


1734 John Norris
1749 Chaloner Ogle
1751 James Steuart
1757 George Clinton
1761 George Anson, Baron of Soberton
1762 William Rowley
1768 Edmund Hawke
1781 John Forbes
1796 Richard Howe
1799 Peter Parker
1811 * King William IV
1821 John Jervis, 1st Earl of St. Vincent
1830 William Peere Williams Freeman
1830 James Gambier
1830 Charles Morice Pole
1833 Charles Edmund Nugent
1844 James Hawkins Whitshed
1846 George Martin
1849 Thomas Byam Martin
1851 George Cockburn
1857 Charles Ogle
1858 John West
1862 William Hall Gage
1862 Graham Eden Hamond
1863 Francis William Austen
1863 William Parker
1864 Lucius Curtis
1865 Thomas John Cochrane
1866 George Francis Seymour
1868 James Alexander Gordon
1869 William Bowles
1869 George Rose Sartorius
1870 Fairfax Moresby
1872 Houston Stewart
1877 Henry John Codrington
1877 Henry Keppel
1877 Provo William Parry Wallis
1877 George Rodney Mundy
1879 James Hope
1879 Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds
1881 Alexander Milne
1881 Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot
1885 Alfred Phillipps Ryder
1887 * King Edward VII
1888 Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby
1888 John Hay
1889 + Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany
1892 John Edmund Commerell
1893 Alfred Ernest Albert, H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh
1895 Richard James Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam
1897 Algernon McLennan Lyons
1898 Frederick William Richards
1899 Nowell Salmon
1902 James Elphinstone Erskine
1903 Charles Frederick Hotham
1904 Walter Talbot Kerr
1905 Edward Hobart Seymour
1905 John Arbuthnot Fisher
1907 Arthur Knyvet Wilson
1908 + Nicholas II, Czar of Russia
1908 Gerard Henry Uctred Noel
1910 + Heinrich, Prince of Prussia
1910 Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe
1910 * King George V
1913 William Henry May
1915 Hedworth Lambton Meux
1917 Geore Astley Callaghan
1919 John Rushworth Jellicoe
1919 David Beatty
1919 Henry Bradwardine Jackson
1919 Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss
1920 Cecil Burney
1921 Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee
1921 Louis Alexander Mountbatten
1924 Charles Edward Madden
1925 Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe
1925 John Michael DeRobeck
1928 Henry Francis Oliver
1929 Osmond de Beauvoir Brock
1930 Roger John Brownlow Keyes
1933 Frederick Lawrence Field
1934 Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt
1935 Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield
1936 * King Edward VIII
1936 John Donald Kelly
1936 * King George VI
1938 William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery
1939 Roger Roland Charles Backhouse
1939 Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound
1940 Charles Morton Forbes
1943 Andrew Browne Cunningham
1943 John Cronyn Tovey
1945 James Fownes Somerville
1948 John Henry Dacres Cunningham
1948 Bruce Austin Fraser
1949 Algernon Usborne Willis
1952 Arthur John Power
1952 Philip Louis Vian
1953 * Prince Philip, H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh
1953 Rhoderick Robert McGrigor
1955 George Elvey Creasey
1956 Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten
1960 Charles Edward Lamb
1962 Caspar John
1968 Varyl Cargill Begg
1970 Michael LeFanu
1971 Peter John Hill-Norton
1974 Michael Patrick Pollock
1977 Edward Beckwith Ashmore
1979 Terence Thornton Lewin
1982 Henry Conyers Leach
1985 John David Elliott Fieldhouse
1989 William Doveton Minet Staveley
1992 John Julian Robertson Oswald
1995 David Benjamin Bathurst


* British Monarchs / Royal Consort
+ Foreign Royals