Vice Admiral Sir Neville Purvis KCB (born 8 May 1936) is a former

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officer who ended his career as

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Naval career

Educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

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, and the

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, Purvis joined the

in 1953 and specialized as a

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r.Burke's Peerage
/ref> Promoted to rear admiral, he was appointed Director-General, Future Material Projects in 1987 and Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training in 1988 and then, having been promoted to vice admiral, he served as

from 1991 until his retirement in 1994. In retirement he became Director General of the British Standards Institution (BSI) and thereafter Chief Executive of the

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and, more recently, a Trustee of the Wellington Trust, a charity formed to preserve the

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HMS ''Wellington''.The Journal of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners and The Wellinton Trust
Issue 1/2009, Volume XXII, No. 1 He lives at Bramley in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Purvis, Neville 1936 births Living people People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Royal Navy vice admirals Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath