Horace Law
Sir Horace Law | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 June 1911 Dublin,Ireland |
| Died | 30 January 2005(aged 93) |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  Royal Navy |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands held | HMSCentaur Britannia Royal Naval College Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command |
| Battles/wars | World War II Korean War |
| Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Officer of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Cross |
AdmiralSir Horace Rochfort Law,GCB,OBE,DSC(23 June 1911 – 30 January 2005) wasCommander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command.
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Educated atSherborne Schooland theRoyal Naval College Dartmouth,[1]Law joined theRoyal Navyin 1929.[2]He became a Gunnery specialist in 1937.[2]
War service[edit]
Law served inWorld War IIin the anti-aircraft cruiserHMSCairoin 1939, the cruiserHMSCoventryin 1940 and the cruiserHMSNigeriain 1942.[2]He was awarded theDistinguished Service Crossfor his role in the British landings inGreeceand the subsequent evacuations from Greece andCrete.[1]
He served in theKorean Wararranging naval gunfire support for theKorean Army.[1]
Post-war service[edit]
He was appointedcommanding officerof the destroyerHMSDuchessin 1951[1]and the carrierHMSCentaurin 1958[2]and then made Commander ofBritannia Royal Naval Collegein 1960.[2]
He went on to beFlag Officer Sea Trainingin 1961,Flag Officer Submarinesin 1963 andController of the Navyin 1965.[2]He was madeCommander-in-Chief Naval Home CommandandFlag Officer, Portsmouth Areain 1970.[2]He was alsoFirst and Principal Naval Aide-de-camptothe Queenfrom 1970 to 1972.[2]He retired in 1972.[2]
Retirement[edit]
In retirement he becameChairmanofHawthorn Leslie and Company[1]and was a member ofSecurity Commissionfrom 1973 to 1982.[2]
In 1979 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to theInstitution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.He chose the subject "Belief and Discipline in a Free Society".[3]
Personal life[edit]
In 1941 he married Heather Coryton: they went on to have two sons and two daughters.[1]Law was a resident ofSouth Harting,West Sussex, where he was a lay preacher at the parish church; a room at the church is named after him. He was president of theOfficers' Christian Unionand chairman of theChurch ArmyBoard during the 1970s and 1980s.[4]
He was a Governor ofMonkton Combe Schoolfrom 1969 to 1994.[5]
References[edit]
- ^abcdefAdmiral Sir Horace LawThe Times, 1 February 2005
- ^abcdefghij"Law, Horace".Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived fromthe originalon 5 February 2011.Retrieved12 January2021.
- ^"Hugh Miller Macmillan".Macmillan Memorial Lectures.Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.Archivedfrom the original on 4 October 2018.Retrieved29 January2019.
- ^"Obituary - Admiral Sir Horace Law".The Telegraph.London. 2 February 2005.Retrieved30 September2014.
- ^Monkton Combe School Register
- 1911 births
- 2005 deaths
- Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at Sherborne School
- Royal Navy admirals
- Royal Navy officers of World War II
- Royal Navy personnel of the Korean War
- Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
- People from South Harting
- Governors of Monkton Combe School
- Military personnel from Dublin (city)
- Irish officers in the Royal Navy