Patrick Morgan
Sir Patrick John Morgan KCVO CB DSC (born January 26, 1917 - May 20, 1989 ) was a British admiral.
Patrick Morgan was a son of the future Vice Admiral Sir Charles Morgan . Morgan attended the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth and became an officer in the Royal Navy . During the Second World War he was mentioned in Despatches and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1942 . From 1957 to 1959 he was a British naval attaché in Turkey. In 1960 he attended Imperial Defense College . He then served from 1961 to 1962, he served on the staff of the naval command at Northwood , before he was in command of the aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark from 1963 to 1964 . From 1965 he was in command of the royal yacht HMY Britannia as Rear Admiral . In 1967 he was named Companion of the Order of the Bath . In 1970 he was raised to the personal nobility as Knight Commander of Royal Victorian Order before he retired.
In 1944 Morgan married Mary Hermione Fraser-Tytler , a daughter of Neil Fraser-Tytler and his wife CH Fraser-Tytler. With her he had three sons.
literature
- MORGAN, Rear Adm. Sir Patrick (John). In: Who Was Who, A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, April 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morgan, Sir Patrick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morgan, Sir Patrick John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1917 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1989 |