Admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ...

Ernest Neville Rolfe, CB (11 August 1847 – 11 May 1909) was a

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

officer who saw extensive service in Africa. Rolfe entered HMS ''Britannia'' as a cadet in June 1861 and saw active service during the

Third Anglo-Ashanti War The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold Coast—and the British Empire and its African allies. Though the Ashanti emerged victorio ...

, during operations on the Congo and Niger rivers from 1874 to 1876, and during the

Anglo-Egyptian War The British conquest of Egypt (1882), also known as Anglo-Egyptian War (), occurred in 1882 between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the United Kingdom. It ended a nationalist uprising against the Khedive Tewfik Pasha. It ...

of 1882. He subsequently commanded a naval brigade under Sir Gerald Graham in the Sudan. In retirement, he was a churchwarden of

St Margaret's, Westminster The Church of St Margaret, Westminster Abbey, is in the grounds of Westminster Abbey on Parliament Square, London, England. It is dedicated to Margaret of Antioch, and forms part of a single World Heritage Site with the Palace of Westminster a ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rolfe, Ernest 1847 births 1909 deaths Royal Navy admirals Companions of the Order of the Bath Royal Navy personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War