Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Malcolm Evans-Lombe KCB (15 October 1901 – 14 May 1974) was a

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officer who became Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.

Naval career

Educated at

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and in the Royal Navy, Evans-Lombe served in the

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initially as Naval Assistant to the

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and then, from 1942, as Captain of the

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HMS ''Glasgow''. He was appointed Director of the Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division at the

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in December 1943, Chief of Staff for the

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in June 1944 and Chief of Staff for the

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in December 1944. He became Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff in 1950 and retired in 1955.

Personal life

Evans-Lombe was appointed

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for 1962 and lived in retirement at Marlingford Hall. He died on 14 May 1974. His son, Sir Edward Evans-Lombe, was a High Court judge and inherited the family country estate.

References

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