Vice-Admiral Charles Andrew Fountaine, CB, DL, JP (25 May 1879 – 24 March 1946) was a Royal Navy officer during the First World War.[1][2]

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.[3] 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 1925–1926. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk in March 1946, just before his death.[4]

He had married Louisa Constance Catherine (31 August 1890 - 28 December 1968) in 1918. [5][6] She was the younger daughter of Sir Douglas Maclean, of Hawke's Bay in New Zealand. The Neo-Nazi Andrew Fountaine was their son.

References

  1. ↑ The Times, Thursday, Mar 28, 1946; pg. 7; Issue 50412; col E Vice-Admiral C. A. Fountaine
  2. ↑ ‘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 accessed 22 May 2013
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36055. London. 2 February 1900. p. 10.
  4. ↑ "No. 37509". The London Gazette. 22 March 1946. p. 1493.
  5. ↑ 1939 England and Wales Register
  6. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
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