Years of service 1926–1967 Rank Vice admiral Name Fitzroy Talbot Allegiance United Kingdom | Died June 16, 1998 | |
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Commands held HMS WhitshedHMS TeazerHMS Alert3rd Destroyer SquadronSouth Atlantic and South AmericaPlymouth Command Battles/wars World War IISuez Crisis Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the British EmpireCompanion of the Order of the BathDistinguished Service Order & Bar | ||
Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Allison Fitzroy Talbot KBE CB DSO & Bar DL (22 October 1909 – 16 June 1998) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.
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Naval career
Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Fitzroy Talbot joined the Royal Navy in 1926. He went to sea as a midshipman in the battleship HMS Royal Oak.
He served in World War II initially as commander of the 10th Anti-Submarine Striking Force in the North Sea and then as Commander of the 3rd Motor Gun Boat Flotilla in the Channel. He commanded the destroyers HMS Whitshed and HMS Teazer, in the latter capacity supporting the advance through Italy. Finally he was Chief of Staff to the Commodore, Western Isles.
After the War he became Chief Staff Officer (Operations) for the Far East Station before taking command of the frigate HMS Alert in 1949. In 1950 he was appointed Naval Attaché in Moscow and then, as Commander of 3rd Destroyer Squadron, he took part in the Suez Crisis in 1956 after which he became Commodore, Royal Navy Barracks, Portsmouth in 1957. His next appointment was as Flag Officer Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf in 1960 before being made Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America in 1963. He was made Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1965 and retired in 1967.
In retirement he became Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset in 1973.
Family
In 1940 he married Joyce Gertrude Linley; they went on to have two daughters. Following the death of his first wife, he married Elizabeth Durlacher in 1983.