Admiral The Honourable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.
10 Facts About Edmund Fremantle
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Edmund Fremantle served in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852 and the New Zealand Wars in 1864.
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Edmund Fremantle was made senior naval officer in Gibraltar in 1881 and then went on to command HMS Dreadnought.
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Edmund Fremantle was promoted rear-admiral in 1885 and was made second-in-command of the Channel Squadron in 1886 and Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1888.
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Edmund Fremantle was promoted to admiral later that year and retired in June 1901.
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Edmund Fremantle was granted the honorary office of Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom in July 1901, and kept this until 1926.
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Edmund Fremantle was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1899 Birthday Honours.
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Edmund Fremantle was described as "the Father of the British Navy" in Time magazine.
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On 31 August 1866, in Sydney, Edmund Fremantle married Barberina Rogers Isaacs, eldest daughter of the Hon.
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The oldest of their five sons, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Edmund Fremantle, was born at sea on 16 November 1867.