Gerard Noel (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Gerard Henry Uctred Noel GCB, KCMG (5 March 1845 – 23 May 1918) was a Royal Navy officer.

Naval career
Noel joined the Royal Navy in 1859. In 1889 he became Captain of the battleship HMS Temeraire and in 1891 he took command of the battleship HMS Nile. He became Junior Naval Lord in 1893. In 1898, he became Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet and led a force to Crete to take part in punitive operations after a massacre of Christians. He went on to be Junior Naval Lord in 1893.

He was made Superintendent of Naval Reserves and Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet in 1900, and promoted to Vice Admiral 5 November 1901. He became Commander-in-Chief, China Station in 1904 and Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1907. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1908 and he retired in 1915.

He is buried in the churchyard of St Martin's at Fincham in Norfolk.

Family
In 1875 he married Charlotte Rachel Frederica Cresswell; they went on to have two daughters and one son.