Admiral Sir Morgan Singer KCB

Order of the Bath

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 KCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 (13 December 1864 – 27 April 1938) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station.

Naval career

Singer joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 and by 1908 was Captain of the cruiser

Cruiser

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 HMS Roxburgh

HMS Roxburgh (1904)

HMS Roxburgh was a 10,850 ton Devonshire-class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, and so far, the only ship to bear the name. She was built by London and Glasgow Co., and launched on 19 January 1904. She was assigned to the Channel Fleet early in her career...

.

He served in World War I

World War I

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 and was appointed Director of Naval Ordnance in August 1914 taking responsibility for the Admiralty

Admiralty

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's entire supply of guns, torpedoes and mines. He continued in that post until March 1917.

Promoted to Vice Admiral in February 1919, he became Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station the same month. He was appointed KCB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 later that year, and went on to be Commander-in-Chief of Coastguards and Reserves in 1921. He became a full Admiral in 1924.

He died in Winchester

Winchester

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 in Hampshire

Hampshire

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in 1938.