Admiral Oliver Backhouse, CB (5 June 1875 – 25 March 1943) 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 ...

officer. Backhouse was the son of the banker

Sir Jonathan Backhouse, 1st Baronet Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Baronet, (15 November 1849 – 27 July 1918) was a British banker. Backhouse was a director of Backhouse's Bank the family bank in Darlington, County Durham, one of the leading country banks that merged in ...

, and the younger brother of Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Backhouse,

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from 1938 to 1939, was his younger brother.{{cite book, last=Heathcote , first=Tony , title=The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734 – 1995 , publisher=Pen & Sword Ltd , year=2002 , isbn=0-85052-835-6, pages=20–21

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1875 births 1943 deaths Oliver Royal Navy admirals Royal Navy personnel of World War I Companions of the Order of the Bath