Percy Grant (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Percy Grant
Born	(1867-09-23)23 September 1867
Died	8 September 1952(1952-09-08) (aged 84)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Rank	Admiral
Commands held	Admiral Superintendent Portsmouth Dockyard Australia Station Chief of the Australian Naval Staff HMS Ramillies^[1] HMS Marlborough HMS King Edward VII^[1] HMS Falmouth^[1] HMS Gibraltar^[1] HMS Arrogant^[1] HMS Halcyon^[1]
Battles/wars	Anglo-Egyptian War Brazilian Naval Mutiny First World War Second World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of the Bath

Admiral Sir Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant KCVO, CB (23 September 1867 – 8 September 1952) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff.

Naval career

Grant saw service in the Egyptian War of 1882 as well as the Brazilian Naval Mutiny in 1893.^[2] He went on to serve during the First World War initially as Flag Captain to Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly in HMS Marlborough and then as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Cecil Burney who was then Second in Command of the Grand Fleet.^[2] In that capacity he saw his ship torpedoed and crippled at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.^[3]

After the war he was appointed First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff.^[2] In 1921 he went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station and Advisor on defence to Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia at the Empire Conference in London that same year.^[2] He was appointed Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1922 and retired in 1928.^[2] He was recalled during the Second World War to serve as Captain at the Port of Holyhead.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 The Dreadnought Project
1 2 3 4 5 6 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
↑ Jutland Battle Melbourne Argus, 22 December 1920

External links

The Dreadnought Project: Percy Grant

Military offices
Preceded by Rear Admiral Sir William Creswell	First Naval Member, Australian Commonwealth Naval Board 1919–1921	Succeeded by Vice Admiral Sir Allan Everett

Chiefs of the Royal Australian Navy

Director, Commonwealth Naval Forces	Sir William Rooke Creswell

First Naval Members, Australian Commonwealth Naval Board	Sir William Rooke Creswell Sir Percy Grant Sir Allan Everett Percival Hall-Thompson William Napier Sir William Munro Kerr Sir George Hyde Sir Ragnar Colvin Sir Guy Royle Sir Louis Keppel Hamilton Sir John Augustine Collins Sir Roy Dowling Sir Henry Burrell Sir Hastings Harrington Sir Alan McNicoll Sir Victor Smith Sir Richard Peek Sir David Stevenson

Chiefs of the Naval Staff	Sir Anthony Synnot Sir James Willis David Leach Michael Hudson Ian MacDougall Rodney Taylor

Chiefs of Navy	Rodney Taylor Donald Chalmers David Shackleton Chris Ritchie Russ Shalders Russell Crane Raymond Griggs Timothy Barrett

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