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Lords of the Admiralty

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in British history.

James Callaghan

former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)

British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745)

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

British statesman and prime minister (1784–1865)

Austen Chamberlain

British politician (1863-1937)

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

British statesman and naval officer (1900-1979)

George Grenville

Prime Minister of Great Britain (1712-1770)

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834 (1764–1845)

F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich

British Prime Minister, politician (1782-1859)

Charles James Fox

British Whig statesman (1749–1806)

John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe

Royal Navy officer (1859-1935)

Prince Rupert of the Rhine

English-German aristocrat, army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial administrator (1619–1682)

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth

English nobleman and soldier (1649–1685)

Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope

Royal Navy officer (1883–1963)

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

English soldier and politician (1608-1670)

Prince Louis of Battenberg

Nobleman and naval officer (1854–1921)

British Admiralty Office

British Government ministry responsible for the Royal Navy until 1964

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

Royal Navy officer (1871-1936)

military commander of the Commonwealth of England (1599-1657)

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

English Peer and statesman; inventor of the sandwich

English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law (1584-1654)

George Anson, 1st Baron Anson

British admiral (1697-1762)

William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker

English mathematician

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

English politician and founder of the Whig party (1621-1683)

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)

Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby

British politician and Governor General of Canada (1841–1908)

Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe

Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet

professional head of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy

Royal Navy admiral (1650-1709)

Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape

Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1888-1981)

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1841–1920)

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

British politician (1801-1885)

Edward Carson, Baron Carson

Irish politician, barrister and judge (1854-1935)

Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1877-1943)

George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland

British politician (1784-1849)

Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

British Tory politician, Governor-General of India (1790-1871)

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

British Admiral known particularly for his service in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary Wars (1724-1816)

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

English statesman and poet

Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire

British politician (1868-1938)

Charles Townshend

British politician; (1725-1767)

British navy admiral (1888-1941)

Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst

British politician (1762-1834)

Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave

British explorer (1744-1792)

Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke

Royal Navy admiral (1705-1781)

Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex

English noble and parliamentarian general

Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton

British politician and colonial administrator (1876-1947)

Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire

British statesman (1833-1908)

Edward Boscawen

Royal Navy admiral (1711-1761)

Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds

English statesman, born 1632

George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer

British Whig politician (1758-1834)

Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook

British Liberal politician (1826-1904)

John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford

British politician (1710-1771)

Charles Beresford

Royal Navy admiral (1846-1919)

George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington

Royal Navy admiral (1663-1733)

Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield

Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1873-1967)

Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss

Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1864-1933)

Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes

Royal Navy officer (1872-1945)

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe

British Royal Navy officer (1865–1937)

Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1894–1968)

Thomas Grenville

British politician (1755-1846)