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Montague Browning
Admiral Sir Montague Edward Browning, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (18 January 1863 – 4 November 1947) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. Military careerBrowning joined the Royal Navy in 1876.[2] He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War and then became Secretary to the Parliamentary Committee on Water Tube Boilers in 1900.[2] He was promoted to captain on 1 January 1902,[3] and in June that year was appointed flag captain in command of the cruiser HMS Ariadne.[4] She was commissioned on 5 June 1902 as flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas, the new Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station, where she arrived to take up the position on 15 July.[5] Browning became Chief of Staff for the Channel Fleet in 1908 and Inspector of Target Practice in 1911.[2] He served in the World War I as Commander of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet and then, from 1916, as Commander-in-Chief North America and West Indies.[2] He commanded 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet from 1918.[2] After the War he became President of the Allied Naval Armistice Commission and had the task of dismantling the German Fleet.[6] He then became Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel in 1919.[2] In this capacity he also sought to dismantle the Royal Canadian Navy but this time faced determined and successful opposition from Rear Admiral Walter Hose.[7] His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth from 1920.[2] He also became First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1925 and retired from the navy on 4 October 1926.[8] He was also Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1939[2] and then Vice Admiral of the United Kingdom from 1939 to 1945.[9] He lived at Crawley near Winchester.[10] His brother was Frederick Browning, a cricketer and British Army officer.[11] References
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