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Years of service
  
1961 - 1997

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Service/branch
  
Royal Navy


Awards
  
Order of the Bath

Name
  
John Tolhurst

Rank
  
Rear admiral

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Born
  
22 April 1943 (age 80) (
1943-04-22
)

Commands held
  
HMS Berwick HMS Exeter HM Naval Base, Portsmouth HMS Invincible Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland

Rear Admiral John Gordon Tolhurst CB (born 22 April 1943) is a former Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland.

Tolhurst joined the Royal Navy in 1961. His first command was the frigate HMS Berwick: after that he was appointed Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMS Exeter in 1984, Commodore of HMS Nelson, the Naval Base at Portsmouth, in 1988 and Captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible in 1990. He went on to be Flag Officer Sea Training in 1992 and Flag Officer Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland in 1996 before retiring in 1997.

On retiring from Active Service, he became senior military officer at the Defence Export Services Organisation. He subsequently set up his own Defence and Security consultancy business, specialising in exhibitions in those sectors. He is a Trustee of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Association.

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