Hubert Brand
Sir Hubert Brand | |
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Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order |
Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel
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Background
Brand was the second son of
Brigadier-Generals in the Army while the Honourable Robert Brand was a businessman and civil servant who was raised to the peerage as Baron Brand in 1946.[1]
Brand joined the
Lieutenant on 30 June 1892.[4] He was promoted to Commander on 1 September 1902,[5] and appointed in command of the destroyer HMS Success on 20 December 1902,[6] but transferred to take command of the HMS Arab on her first commission only three weeks later, as she succeeded the Success as senior officer′s ship in the Portsmouth instructional flotilla on 12 January 1903.[7][8]
He was appointed Naval
the King in 1931; He retired in 1932.[2]
Family
Brand married Norah Greene, daughter of
British Ambassador to Japan, in 1914. They had two daughters, of whom only the eldest reached adulthood. Norah died in March 1924. Brand remained a widower until his death in December 1955, aged 85.[1]
References
- ^ a b thepeerage.com Admiral Hon. Sir Hubert George Brand
- ^ a b c d e f g "Brand, Hubert". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 5 February 2011.
- ^ "No. 26171". The London Gazette. 12 June 1891. p. 3118.
- ^ "No. 26309". The London Gazette. 22 July 1892. p. 4187.
- ^ "No. 27473". The London Gazette. 12 September 1902. p. 5889.
- ^ "Naval & Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 36951. London. 15 December 1902. p. 6.
- ^ Brand Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 118.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36976. London. 13 January 1903. p. 8.
- ^ "No. 31463". The London Gazette. 18 July 1919. p. 9136.
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