Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. The commanders-in-chief were based at premises in High Street, Portsmouth from the 1790s until the end of Sir Thomas Williams's tenure, his successor, Sir Philip Durham, being the first to move into Admiralty House at the Royal Navy Dockyard, where subsequent holders of the office were based until 1969. Prior to World War I the officer holder was sometimes referred to in official dispatches as the Commander-in-Chief, Spithead.
HMS Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
Admiralty House, HMNB Portsmouth
Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham, GCB was a Royal Navy officer whose service in the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars was lengthy, distinguished and at times controversial.
Portrait as a Vice Admiral (about 1820) Artist - Sir Henry Raeburn
Signature of Captain Durham on a document after Trafalgar
Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham, by Sir Francis Grant about 1830. National Galleries Scotland.
Admiral Sir Philip H Calderwood Durham (1763-1845), by John Wood 1844, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London