Frederic Brock
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|name= Sir Frederic Brock
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|birth_date=15 October 1854
|death_date= 1 November 1929
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|allegiance= United Kingdom
|branch= Royal Navy
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|commands=HMS Highflyer
HMS Camperdown
HMS Bacchante
HMS Andromeda
HMS Diadem
HMS Donegal
HMS Triumph
Orkneys and Shetlands Command
|battles= First World War
|awards= Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Sir Frederic Edward Errington Brock (15 October 1854 – 1 November 1929) was a Royal Navy officer.
Naval career
Brock was promoted to lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 8 December 1879.{{London Gazette|issue=24791|page=7324|date=12 December 1879}} Promoted to captain on 30 June 1898,{{London Gazette|issue=26983|page=3983|date=1 July 1898}} he was given command of the protected cruiser HMS Highflyer in December 1899, when she was part of a Training squadron, including a visit to Gibraltar in March 1900.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=2 April 1900 | page=7 |issue=36105}} He was subsequently flag captain to rear-admiral Day Bosanquet during his years on the Highflyer as Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station. He transferred to a temporary command of the second-class battleship HMS Camperdown for a month from 24 September to 7 November 1902,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=26 September 1902 |page=8 |issue=36883| }} before he was appointed in command of the armoured cruiser HMS Bacchante on 25 November 1902,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=5 November 1902 |page=11 |issue=36917| }} for her outbound journey to her first commission in the Mediterranean Squadron.{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIP1.pdf|title=Captains commanding Royal Navy warships|access-date=26 November 2016}} On arrival she replaced {{HMS|Andromeda|1897|6}} as flagship of its cruiser squadron,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=26 August 1902 |page=4 |issue=36856| }} and Brock changed places on 20 December with Captain Christopher Cradock, who had until then been in command of Andromeda. Brock then brought the Andromeda home, and paid her off at Portsmouth on 10 February 1903.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=17 January 1903 |page=9 |issue=36980}} He was later given command of the protected cruiser HMS Diadem in July 1903, followed by command of the armoured cruiser HMS Donegal in November 1903, before transferring to the battleship HMS Triumph in May 1905.
Brock became Rear-Admiral Commanding the Portsmouth Division of the Home Fleet in November 1909, Senior Naval Officer at Gibraltar in September 1912 and, during the First World War, Admiral Commanding, Orkneys and Shetlands in January 1916.{{cite book|first=Arthur J|last= Marder|title=From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: Volume IV 1917, Year of Crisis|page=141|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmhtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA141|publisher=Seaforth|year=2014|isbn=978-1848322011}}
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Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath