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George Egerton (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir George Le Clerc Egerton, KCB (17 October 1852 – 30 March 1940) was a senior Royal Navy officer from the Egerton family who rose to become Second Sea Lord.
==Naval career==
Egerton joined the Royal Navy in 1866.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served on the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.〔 In 1893 he was promoted to Captain and appointed a Naval Attaché before serving with the Naval Brigade in Mombasa in 1895,〔 and he was Chief of Staff for the Benin Expedition in 1897.〔
By early 1900 he was in command of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS ''Majestic'', serving as flagship to Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet. In June 1901 he was transferred to the ''President'' for service as Assistant Director of Torpedoes at the Admiralty, a position he left the following February when he transferred to the torpedo school ship ''Vernon''.
He was appointed Second-in-Command of the Atlantic Fleet in 1906:〔 Egerton flew his flag on HMS ''Victorious'', with Captain Robert Scott as his flag captain.〔Preston, Diana: A First Rate Tragedy: Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions Constable (pb edition), page 86, London, 1999 ISBN 0-09-479530-4 OCLC 59395617〕 He became Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station in 1908 and Second Sea Lord in 1911.〔 He served in World War I as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.〔 He had previously served as ADC to King Edward VII, and retired in 1916.〔
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