Admiral Sir Peter Geoffrey Marshall Herbert, (28 February 1929 – 3 May 2019) was a senior

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officer and former Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

Naval career

Educated at Dunchurch Hall and the

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, Herbert was commissioned into the

in 1949.Debretts People of Today 1994 He served in submarines for much of his early career and then became Commander of the nuclear-powered submarine, HMS ''Valiant'', in 1963. He was made Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS ''Blake'' in 1974, and then Deputy Chief of the Polaris Executive in 1976. He went on to be

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in 1978 and

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in 1980. He was appointed Flag Officer Submarines and Commander, Submarines, Eastern Atlantic Area in 1981 and in that role took part in the Falklands War. He became Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff in 1983. In retirement he became a Non-Executive Director of Radamec Group plc. He died on 3 May 2019 at the age of 90.Herbert
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Family

In 1953, he married Anne Maureen McKeown (died 11 January 2012) and they went on to have one son and one daughter.

References

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