Charles Fountaine

{{Short description|Royal Navy admiral (1879–1946)}}

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Vice-Admiral Charles Andrew Fountaine, CB, DL, JP (25 May 1879{{snd}}24 March 1946) was a Royal Navy officer during the First World War.The Times, Thursday, Mar 28, 1946; pg. 7; Issue 50412; col E Vice-Admiral C. A. Fountaine‘FOUNTAINE, Vice-Adm. Charles Andrew’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U225554, accessed 22 May 2013]

Fountaine was born at Narford Hall, Norfolk. He joined the Royal Navy in 1893, and was a Lieutenant when in early 1900 he was posted to the destroyer HMS Fairy, serving in the Devonport Instructional flotilla.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=2 February 1900 |page=10 |issue=36055}} He later served with distinction during the First World War, first as a gunnery officer on HMS Lion, and latterly in command of HMS Cambrian. He was Naval Aide de Camp to King George V from 1925 to 1926. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk in March 1946, just before his death.{{London Gazette|issue=37509|page=1493|date=22 March 1946}}

He had married Louisa Constance Catherine (31 August 1890{{snd}}28 December 1968) in 1918.1939 England and Wales RegisterEngland & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995 She was the younger daughter of Sir Douglas Maclean, of Hawke's Bay in New Zealand. The Neo-Nazi Andrew Fountaine was their son.