Admiral Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle

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Admiral Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle GCB CMG (16 June 1836 – 10 February 1929) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.

Born a son of Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, Fremantle joined the Royal Navy in 1849. He served in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852 and the New Zealand land wars in 1864. Then in 1861 he became Commander in HMS Eclipse.

Promoted to Captain in 1867, he commanded HMS Barracouta, HMS Doris, HMS Lord Warden and HMS Invincible. He was made Senior Naval Officer in Gibraltar in 1881 and then went on to command HMS Dreadnought. He was promoted Rear-Admiral in 1885 and was made Second-in-Command of the Channel Squadron in 1886 and Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1888. Promoted to Vice-Admiral from 1890 he went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station in 1892 and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1896. He was promoted to Admiral later that year and retired in 1901.

He was described as "the Father of the British Navy" in Time Magazine.