Noel Grant

Rear-Admiral Noel Grant as a Captain, 1917.
Portrait: © National Portrait Gallery, London.

Rear-Admiral Noel Grant, C.B., (13 September, 1868 – 6 March, 1920) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born in Kensington, Noel Grant gained five months' time on passing out of Britannia in December 1883. His early career had him serving in Northumberland, Bacchante and Calypso.

In September 1888, he went to Excellent for exams, emerging with a second-class certificate in torpedoes in May 1889. He was then loaned to T.B. 52 from 18 July until she paid off on 3 September, 1889. He then went to the Mediterranean, first spending a year in Fearless, from which he produced a useful report on fortifications in Algiers. He was then appointed to Edinburgh on 1 December 1891. His time in her was abbreviated when he was invalided on 29 August, presumably with Mediterranean Fever.

Grant was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 October, 1891 before he was found fit on 4 January, 1892 and received an appointment to Jackal in the Home Fleet as her navigating officer. The rest of the 1890s would be a succession of appointments in this role, taking him to China, Portsmouth and North America before he was again hazarded in Mediterranean climes, being placed in Andromeda on 5 September 1899 and then Ramillies in 1902.

Grant was promoted to the rank of Commander dated 31 December, 1902 and re-appointed in Ramillies.

Grant was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December, 1908.

On 8 February, 1910, he was made captain of the second class protected cruiser Leander.

Grant became Captain (D) of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla on 20 December, 1910.

He served as captain of the battleship Irresistible for a little over a year, beginning his command in March 1913.

He was appointed in command of the armoured cruiser Cochrane on 30 June, 1915.

Grant was admitted to Chatham Naval Hospital with a stomach disease on 19 January, 1917.

In January, 1918, Grant was appointed as Senior Naval Officer, Bristol Channel. On 7 June, he was moved to be S.N.O., Cardiff. In late July, he was judged fit only for shore service.

Post-War

He was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 27 January, 1920 and was placed on the Retired List the following day. He died very soon after on the sixth of March.

See Also

• Wikipedia

Naval Appointments
Preceded by Brian H. F. Barttelot	Captain of H.M.S. Syren 15 Dec, 1903 – 8 Feb, 1905	Succeeded by Sidney R. Olivier
Preceded by Henry H. Bruce	Naval Officer in Charge, Bermuda Royal Dockyard 20 Mar, 1906 – 9 Jan, 1909	Succeeded by Basil H. Fanshawe
Preceded by Herbert E. Holmes-à-Court	Captain of H.M.S. Leander 8 Feb, 1910 – 20 Dec, 1910	Succeeded by Raymond A. Nugent
Preceded by Herbert E. Holmes-à-Court	Captain of H.M.S. Sapphire 20 Dec, 1910 – 20 Dec, 1912	Succeeded by Francis G. St. John
Preceded by Herbert E. Holmes-à-Court	Captain (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla 20 Dec, 1910 – 20 Dec, 1912	Succeeded by Edward G. Lowther-Crofton
Preceded by Maurice Woollcombe	Captain of H.M.S. Irresistible 26 Mar, 1913	Succeeded by The Hon. Stanhope Hawke
Preceded by New Command	Captain of H.M.S. Carmania 4 Aug, 1914 – 30 Jun, 1915	Succeeded by John E. T. Harper
Preceded by William G. E. Ruck-Keene	Captain of H.M.S. Cochrane 30 Jun, 1915 – 9 Feb, 1916	Succeeded by Eustace La T. Leatham
Preceded by ?	Senior Naval Officer, Bristol Channel 11 Jan, 1918 – 7 Jun, 1918	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by ?	Senior Naval Officer, Cardiff 7 Jun, 1918 – 28 Jan, 1920	Succeeded by Charles Herbert Neill James