Percy Grant (other)
Percy Grant is the name of: * Percy Grant (Royal Navy officer) (1887-1952), Royal Navy admiral and Chief of Navy of the Royal Australian Navy * Percy Stickney Grant Percy Stickney Grant (1860–1927) was an American Episcopal priest. Grant was born in Boston and was educated at Harvard University ( AB, 1883; AM, 1886) and at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts ( BD, 1886). He was a c ...

Percy Grant (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant, (23 September 1867 – 8 September 1952) was a Royal Navy officer who served as First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff from 1919 to 1921. Naval career Grant saw service in the Egyptian War of 1882 as well as the Brazilian Naval Mutiny in 1893. He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 October 1890, posted as a lieutenant for navigation on the battleship , and promoted to commander (Navigation) on 26 June 1902. In September 1902 he was posted to for study at the Royal Naval College. He went on to serve during the First World War initially as flag captain to Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly in and then as flag captain and chief of staff to Admiral Sir Cecil Burney who was then second-in-command of the Grand Fleet. In that capacity he saw his ship torpedoed and crippled at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
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