Edmund Fremantle

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Sir Edmund Fremantle
Edmund Robert Fremantle.png
Born16 June 1836
Died10 February 1929 (1929-02-11) (aged 92)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branchNaval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg Royal Navy
Years of service1849–1901
RankAdmiral
Commands heldHMS Eclipse
HMS Barracouta

HMS Lord Warden
HMS Invincible
HMS Dreadnought
East Indies Station
China Station
Plymouth Command
Battles/warsSecond Anglo-Burmese War
New Zealand Wars
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Admiral The Honourable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle GCB GCVO CMG (16 June 1836 – 10 February 1929) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.

Naval career[]

Born a son of Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe and Louisa Elizabeth Nugent, daughter of Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet and a descendant, through Louisa's mother Maria Skinner, of the Schuyler family and Van Cortlandt family of British North America.[1]

Fremantle joined the Royal Navy in 1849.[2] He served in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852 and the New Zealand Wars in 1864.[2] Then in 1861 he became Commander in HMS Eclipse.[3]

Promoted to captain in 1867, he commanded HMS Barracouta, , HMS Lord Warden and HMS Invincible.[3] He was made Senior Naval Officer in Gibraltar in 1881 and then went on to command HMS Dreadnought.[3] He was promoted Rear-Admiral in 1885 and was made Second-in-Command of the Channel Squadron in 1886 and Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1888.[3] Promoted to Vice-Admiral from 1890 he went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station in 1892 and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1896.[3] He was promoted to Admiral later that year and retired in June 1901.[4]

Fremantle was granted the honorary office of Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom in July 1901,[5] and kept this until 1926.

He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1899 Birthday Honours.[6] He was described as "the Father of the British Navy" in Time Magazine.[7]

He later joined the British Fascists.[8]

Family[]

On 31 August 1866, in Sydney, Edmund married Barberina Rogers Isaacs, eldest daughter of the Hon. Robert Mackintosh Isaacs, Solicitor General of New South Wales. The oldest of their five sons, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, was born at sea on 16 November 1867.[3]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 2. London: Harrison 1871, page 1270
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b National Maritime Museum
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f William Loney RN
  4. ^ "No. 27325". The London Gazette. 21 June 1901. p. 4183.
  5. ^ "No. 27338". The London Gazette. 26 July 1901. p. 4950.
  6. ^ "No. 27086". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1899. p. 3585.
  7. ^ Milestones: Feb. 25, 1929 Time Magazine, 25 February 1929
  8. ^ Linehan, Thomas (2001). British Fascism, 1918-39: Parties, Ideology and Culture. Manchester University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-0719050244.

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Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Frederick Richards 		Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station
1888–1891 		Succeeded by
Frederick Robinson
Preceded by
Sir Frederick Richards 		Commander-in-Chief, China Station
1892–1895 		Succeeded by
Sir Alexander Buller
Preceded by
Sir Algernon Lyons 		Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
1896–1899 		Succeeded by
Sir Henry Fairfax
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Vacant
Last held by Sir William Martin, 4th Baronet 		Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom
1901–1926 		Succeeded by
Sir Stanley Colville
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