Frederick Parham

Admiral Sir Frederick Robertson Parham, GBE, KCB, DSO, GCA[2] (9 January 1901 – 20 March 1991) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Sir Frederick Parham
Born9 January 1901
Bath, Somerset, England
Died20 March 1991(1991-03-20) (aged 90)[1]
Chichester, West Sussex, England
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service1913–1959
RankAdmiral
Commands heldHMS Shikari
HMS Gurkha
HMS Belfast
HMS Vanguard
Nore Command
Battles/warsWorld War I
World War II
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order

Educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth,[3] Parham joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1913.[4] He served in World War I as a midshipman on HMS Malaya.[4] In 1937 he was given command of HMS Shikari.[4]

He saw active service in the Second World War as Captain of the destroyer HMS Gurkha, which was sunk by enemy action in 1940.[5] From 1942 he had command of the cruiser HMS Belfast which remains permanently moored as a museum ship in London.[4]

After the War Parham commanded the battleship HMS Vanguard and then, in 1949 became Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel.[4] He was made Flag Officer (Flotillas) and Second in Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1951 and Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport in 1954.[4] Finally he was made Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, in 1955.[4] He retired in 1959.[4]

In retirement Parham chaired a Parliamentary Committee on Inland Waterways.[6]

Family

In 1926, he married Kathleen Dobrée; they had one son.[3] Following the death of his first wife, he married Joan Charig Saunders in 1978.[3]

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References
  1. Andrews, Deborah (1992). Annual Obituary, 1991. St. James Press. p. 161. ISBN 9781558621756.
  2. "Cidadãos Estrangeiros Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  3. Papers of Sir Frederick Parham
  4. "Sir Frederick Parham". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  5. Vian, Sir Philip (1960). Action This Day. London: Frederick Muller. p. 37.
  6. Inland Waterways Archived 14 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Hansard, 4 December 1959
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Sydney Raw		 Fourth Sea Lord
1954–1955		 Succeeded by
Sir Dymock Watson
Preceded by
Sir Geoffrey Oliver		 Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
1955–1958		 Succeeded by
Sir Robin Durnford-Slater
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