Naval Secretary

The Naval Secretary is the Royal Navy appointment of which the incumbent is responsible for policy direction on personnel management for members of the RN. It is a senior RN appointment, held by an officer holding the rank of Rear-Admiral. The Naval Secretary's counterpart in the British Army is the Military Secretary. The Royal Air Force equivalent is the Air Secretary.

Naval Secretaries
Naval Secretaries have included:
 * 1894 - 1897 Captain Hedworth Lambton
 * 1897 - 1899 Captain Wilmot Fawkes
 * 1899 - 1900 Captain Maurice Bourke
 * 1900 - 1902 Captain Wilmot Fawkes
 * 1902 - 1905 Captain Hugh Tyrwhitt
 * 1905 - 1908 Captain Hugh Evan-Thomas
 * 1908 - 1910 Captain Charles Madden
 * 1911 - 1912 Rear Admiral Ernest Troubridge
 * 1912 - 1913 Rear Admiral David Beatty
 * 1913 - 1914 Rear Admiral Dudley de Chair
 * Aug 1914 - Oct 1914 Rear Admiral Horace Hood
 * Oct 1914 - Nov 1914 Rear Admiral Henry Oliver
 * 1914 - 1916 Commodore Charles de Bartolomé
 * 1916 - 1918 Rear Admiral Allan Everett
 * 1918 - 1921 Rear Admiral Sir Rudolph Bentinck
 * 1921 - 1923 Rear-Admiral Hugh Watson
 * 1923 - 1925 Vice-Admiral Michael Hodges
 * Apr 1925 Vice-Admiral Sir Hubert Brand
 * 1925 - 1927 Rear-Admiral Frank Larken
 * 1927 - 1929 Rear-Admiral Eric Fullerton
 * 1929 - 1932 Rear-Admiral George Chetwode
 * 1932 - 1934 Rear-Admiral Sidney Meyrick
 * 1934 - 1937 Rear-Admiral Guy Royle
 * 1937 - 1939 Rear-Admiral William Whitworth
 * May 1939 - Nov 1939 Rear-Admiral Stuart Bonham Carter
 * 1939 - 1941 Rear-Admiral Edward Syfret
 * 1941 - 1942 Rear-Admiral Arthur Peters
 * 1942 - 1944 Rear-Admiral Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton
 * 1944 - 1945 Rear-Admiral Cecil Harcourt
 * 1945 - 1946 Rear-Admiral Claud Barry
 * 1948 - 1948 Rear-Admiral Maurice Mansergh
 * 1948 - 1950 Rear-Admiral Peveril William-Powlett
 * 1950 - 1952 Rear-Admiral William Davis
 * 1952 - 1954 Rear-Admiral Richard Onslow
 * 1954 - 1956 Rear-Admiral David Luce
 * 1956 - 1958 Rear-Admiral Alastair Ewing
 * 1958 - 1960 Rear-Admiral John Hamilton
 * 1960 - 1962 Rear-Admiral Frank Twiss
 * 1962 - 1964 Rear-Admiral John Hayes
 * 1964 - 1966 Rear-Admiral William O'Brien
 * Jan 1966 - Mar 1966 Rear-Admiral Anthony Griffin
 * 1966 - 1967 Rear-Admiral Gervaise Cooke
 * 1967 - 1970 Rear-Admiral David Dunbar-Nasmith
 * 1970 - 1972 Rear-Admiral Iwan Raikes
 * 1972 - 1974 Rear-Admiral Gordon Tait
 * 1974 - 1976 Rear-Admiral John Forbes
 * 1976 - 1978 Rear-Admiral Peter Buchanan
 * 1978 - 1980 Rear-Admiral Paul Greening
 * 1980 - 1983 Rear-Admiral Richard Fitch
 * 1983 - 1985 Rear-Admiral Richard Thomas
 * 1985 - 1987 Rear-Admiral Roger Dimmock
 * 1987 - 1988 Rear-Admiral Norman King
 * 1988 - 1990 Rear-Admiral David Dobson
 * 1990 - 1992 Rear-Admiral Christopher Morgan
 * 1992 - 1994 Rear-Admiral Malcolm Rutherford
 * 1994 - 1996 Rear-Admiral Alan West
 * 1996 - 1998 Rear-Admiral Fabian Malbon
 * 1998 - 2002 Rear-Admiral Jeremy De Halpert
 * 2002 - 2004 Rear-Admiral Mark Kerr
 * 2004 - 2005 Rear-Admiral Peter Wilkinson
 * 2005 - 2008 Rear-Admiral Richard Ibbotson
 * 2008 - 2010 Rear-Admiral Charles Montgomery
 * 2010 – 2012 Rear-Admiral David Steel
 * 2012 – Present Rear-Admiral Jonathan Woodcock