Percy Grant (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir (Edmund) Percy (Fenwick George) Grant  (23 September 1867 – 8 September 1952) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff.

Naval career
Grant saw service in the Egyptian War of 1882 as well as the Brazilian Naval Mutiny in 1893. He went on to serve in World War I 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. In that capacity he saw his ship torpedoed and crippled at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

After the War he was appointed First Naval Member & Chief of the Australian Naval Staff. In 1921 he went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station and Advisor on defence to the Rt Hon Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia at the Empire Conference in London that same year. He was appointed Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1922 and retired in 1928. He was recalled during World War II to serve as Captain at the Port of Holyhead.