George Egerton

Admiral Sir George Le Clerc Egerton, (17 October 1852 – 30 March 1940) was a senior Royal Navy officer from the Egerton family who rose to become Second Sea Lord in 1911.

Naval career Egerton joined the Royal Navy in 1866. He served on the Arctic Expedition of 1875–76. In June 1901 he was transferred to 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 .

Egerton was appointed second-in-command of the Atlantic Fleet in 1906: He became commander-in-chief, Cape of Good Hope Station in 1908 and Second Sea Lord in 1911.

He married, first, in 1882, Frances Emily Gladstone; they had two sons and a daughter, including Rear-Admiral Brian Egerton (1886–1973). He married, second, Margaret Stella Maunsell, in 1932.