Thomas Hope Troubridge

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hope Troubridge, (1 February 1895 – 29 September 1949) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Fifth Sea Lord from 1945 to 1946.

Military career The son of Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge and Edith Mary ( Duffus), Troubridge was born in Southsea, Hampshire, on 1 February 1895. He joined the Royal Navy in 1908, and served in the First World War. In 1936 he became naval attaché in Berlin. He also served in the Second World War, initially as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier

Troubridge was given command of the battleship in June 1941 and then the aircraft carrier in January 1942. In 1943, he was appointed Rear Admiral Combined Operations and flag officer commanding overseas assault forces,

After the war Troubridge was appointed Fifth Sea Lord and then, from 1946, Flag Officer, Air (Home). Their fourth child, Thomas, married Baroness Marie-Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz (later Princess Michael of Kent) in 1971: the marriage was annulled in 1978.