George Egerton (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir George Le Clerc Egerton KCB (17 October 1852 – 30 March 1940) was a senior Royal Navy officer who rose to become Second Sea Lord.

Naval career
Egerton joined the Royal Navy in 1866. He served on the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76. In 1893 he was appointed a Naval Attaché before serving with the Naval Brigade in Mombasa in 1895 and he was Chief of Staff for the Benin Expedition in 1897.

In June 1901, by then a Captain, he was transferred to the President for service at the Admiralty.

He was appointed Second-in-Command of the Atlantic Fleet in 1906: Egerton flew his flag on HMS Victorious, with Captain Robert Scott as his flag captain. He became Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station in 1908 and Second Sea Lord in 1911. He served in World War I as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. He had previously served as ADC to King Edward VII, and retired in 1916.

Family
A grandson of The Rev Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 9th Bt, he married first in 1882 Frances Emily Gladstone; they had two sons and a daughter.