Percy Grant (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Percy Grant
Sir Percy Grant
Birth name	Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant
Born	23 September 1867
Died	8 September 1952 (aged 84)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1881–1928
Rank	Admiral
Commands	Admiral Superintendent Portsmouth Dockyard (1922–25); Chief of the Australian Naval Staff (1919–21); HMS Ramillies (1917–19); HMS Marlborough (1914–15); HMS King Edward VII (1913–14); HMS Falmouth (1911–13); HMS Gibraltar (1910–11); HMS Arrogant (1910); HMS Halcyon (1906–08)
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 served as First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff from 1919 to 1921.

Naval career

Grant saw service in the Egyptian War of 1882 as well as the Brazilian Naval Mutiny in 1893.^[2] He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 October 1890,^[3] posted as a lieutenant for navigation on the battleship HMS Mars, and promoted to commander (Navigation) on 26 June 1902.^[4] In September 1902 he was posted to HMS President for study at the Royal Naval College,^[5] and in January the following year he was posted to the battleship HMS Ramillies, serving in the Mediterranean Fleet.^[6]

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.^[7]

After the war he was appointed First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff.^[2] In this role, he served as defence advisor to Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia at the Empire Conference in London in 1921.^[2] He was appointed Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard in September 1922 and served there until January 1925. He retired from the navy in 1928.^[2] He was recalled during the Second World War to serve as Captain at the Port of Holyhead.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f The Dreadnought Project
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
^ "No. 26093". The London Gazette. 3 October 1890. p. 5268.
^ "No. 27448". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 June 1902. p. 4198.
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36881. London. 24 September 1902. p. 4.
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36978. London. 15 January 1903. p. 8.
^ Jutland Battle Melbourne Argus, 22 December 1920

Military offices
Preceded by Rear Admiral Sir William Creswell	Chief of the Australian Naval Staff 1919–1921	Succeeded by Vice Admiral Sir Allan Everett
Preceded by Rear Admiral Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair	Admiral-superintendent, Portsmouth 1922–1925	Succeeded by Rear Admiral Bertram Thesiger

v t e 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 Michael Noonan Mark Hammond