Peter Herbert (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Peter Geoffrey Marshall Herbert, KCB, OBE (28 February 1929 – 3 May 2019) was a senior Royal Navy officer and former Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

Educated at Dunchurch Hall and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Herbert was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1949.^[1] He served in submarines for much of his early career and then became Commander of the nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Valiant, in 1963.^[1]

He was made Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Blake in 1974, and then Deputy Chief of the Polaris Executive in 1976.^[1] He went on to be Flag Officer, Carriers and Amphibious Ships in 1978 and Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training in 1980.^[1]

He was appointed Flag Officer Submarines and Commander, Submarines, Eastern Atlantic Area in 1981 and in that role took part in the Falklands War.^[2] He was promoted to full admiral on 10 June 1983,^[3] and became Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff the same year.^[1]

In retirement he became a Non-Executive Director of Radamec Group plc.^[4]

He died on 3 May 2019 at the age of 90.^[5]

In 1953, he married Anne Maureen McKeown (died 11 January 2012) and they went on to have one son and one daughter.^[1]