William Graham (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir William Graham GCB (10 September 1826 – 31 May 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy.

Naval career
Graham was appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1849 and served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War in 1855 and at the capture of Canton during the Second Opium War in 1857. Promoted to Captain in 1863, he was given command of HMS Danae, HMS Immortalité, HMS Resistance, HMS Black Prince and then HMS Aurora. He was appointed Captain of the training school HMS Britannia in 1875, Admiral-Superintendent of Malta dockyard in 1882 and Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1886. His last appointment was as President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1888.

He died at 13 Pulteney Street in Bath in 1907.