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Montague Browning
Admiral Sir Montague Edward Browning, (18 January 1863 – 4 November 1947) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.
==Military career==
Browning joined the Royal Navy in 1876.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War and then became Secretary to the Parliamentary Committee on Water Tube Boilers in 1900.〔 He was promoted to Captain on 1 January 1902, and in June that year was appointed flag captain in command of the cruiser HMS ''Ariadne''. She was commissioned on 5 June 1902 as flagship of Vice-Admiral Archibald Douglas, the new Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station. Browning became Chief of Staff for the Channel Fleet in 1908 and Inspector of Target Practice in 1911.〔
He served in the First World War as Commander of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet and then, from 1916, as Commander-in-Chief North America and West Indies.〔 He commanded 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet from 1918.〔
After the War he became President of the Allied Naval Armistice Commission and had the task of dismantling the German Fleet.〔(Disarming other ships ) The Adalaide Advertiser, 25 November 1918〕
He then became Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel in 1919.〔 In this capacity he also sought to dismantle the Royal Canadian Navy but this time faced determined and successful opposition from Rear Admiral Walter Hose.〔(Rear Admiral Walter Hose: Saving the Royal Canadian Navy ) CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum〕 His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth from 1920.〔 He also became First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1925 and retired in 1926.〔
He was also Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1939〔 and then Vice Admiral of the United Kingdom from 1939 to 1945.
He lived at Crawley near Winchester.
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