Montague Browning

Admiral Sir Montague Edward Browning, (18 January 1863 – 4 November 1947) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.

Military career Browning joined the Royal Navy in 1876. He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War and then became Secretary to the Parliamentary Committee on Water Tube Boilers in 1900. 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 Sir Archibald Douglas, the new Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station, where she arrived to take up the position on 15 July. Browning became Chief of Staff for the Channel Fleet in 1908 and Inspector of Target Practice in 1911.

He then became Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel in 1919. His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth from 1920.

He was also Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1939

He lived at Crawley near Winchester. His brother was Frederick Browning, a cricketer and British Army officer.