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Rhoderick Robert McGrigor born in April 1893, was the son of Major General C.R.R. McGrigor CB, CMG, 60th Rifles. In 1931, he married Gwendoline Glyn (widow of Major Charles Greville DSO, Grenadier Guards). The couple adopted twin sons one of whom is called Jock McGrigor, the other Andy. He spent his childhood in South Africa and in early 1906 returned to England and was educated at Royal Naval Colleges (Osborne, Isle of Wight and Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth). He was appointed a midshipman in 1910. [B][B]Naval service[/B][/B] [B][B]First World War and inter-war[/B][/B] During the First World War, he served on destroyers in the Mediterranean and with the Grand Fleet, seeing action during the Dardanelles campaign and at the Battle of Jutland. In the inter-war years, he was promoted on 22 September 1936 to Captain (D), 4th Destroyer Flotilla (HMS Kempenfelt), with the Home Fleet, where he served until mid-1938.[2] Later in 1938, on 26 August, he became Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief China Station (first on HMS Kent, then HMS Tamar, the RN base at Hong Kong), until April 1940. [B][B][B]Second World War[/B][/B][/B] In early 1941, McGrigor was, briefly, Flag Captain, HMS Renown and was involved in the Malta convoys and other operations in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Between 9 September 1941 and early 1943, he was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Weapons). In late 1943, he commanded the Naval Force (Force B) covering the capture of the Italian island of Pantelleria (Operation Corkscrew) and the subsequent Invasion of Sicily; he remained as Flag Officer Sicily during Sicilian and Calabrian Campaigns, during which he was wounded when blown from his ship. He was Flag Officer, Taranto and Adriatic (HMS Nile) until the end of 1943. At the start of 1944, McGrigor briefly commanded Home Fleet aircraft carriers. From 27 March 1944 until July 1945, he was Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron, and from 1 April 1945 he was in addition appointed Second-in-Command Home Fleet with the rank of Vice Admiral (with HMS Kent and then HMS Norfolk as his flagship). During this period, he participated in operations off the Norwegian coast. He was mentioned in despatches on 30 January 1945 for Operation Counterblast) and convoys to North Russia. The final air-raid of the war in Europe, Operation Judgement, took place in North Norway under McGrigor's command on May 4, 1945. On 7 June 1945 with the 1st Cruiser Squadron he conveyed King Haakon to Oslo on his return to Norway after five years in Britain. For this service, he was awarded the honour of Commander of the Norwegian Order of St. Olav. [B][B]Post-war service[/B][/B] Admiral Rhoderick McGrigor, First Sea Lord, being piped on board HMS Liverpool at Valleta, Malta in 1952 From 1945 onwards, McGrigor was appointed to a number of influential shore posts. On 1 October 1945, he became a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Vice Chief of the Naval Staff, where he stayed until 1947. In 1948, until 1950, he was Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet,[4] then Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth until 1951. Admiral McGrigor also commanded Exercise Verity, a major multi-lateral naval exercise for the Western Union Defense Organization (WUDO), in 1949.[5] From 20 December 1951, until 1955, he was First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff. In 1952, McGrigor was appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, a post he held until 1953. He held several honorary academic awards posts: Hon. LLD St Andrews, 1953; Hon. LLD Aberdeen, 1955; Lord Rector of Aberdeen University, 1954–1957. He died in December 1959,aged 66 jainso31

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