Algernon Lyons
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria.
Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons
The Battle of Kinburn in October 1855
The central battery ship HMS Bellerophon, Lyons's flagship as Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station
Kilvrough Manor, the Lyons family home in Glamorgan
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)
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Admiral of the Fleet is a five-star naval officer rank and the highest rank of the Royal Navy, formally established in 1688. The five-star NATO rank code is OF-10, equivalent to a field marshal in the British Army or a Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Apart from honorary appointments, no new admirals of the fleet have been named since 1995, and no honorary appointments have been made since 2014.
King George VI and Admiral Bruce Fraser aboard HMS Duke of York at Scapa Flow, August 1943
Image: George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth by John Riley
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