Rear-Admiral Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies. In most European navies, the equivalent rank is called counter admiral. Rear admiral is usually immediately senior to commodore and immediately below vice admiral. It is ...

Edward Leopold Dyke Acland MVO CB (7 December 1878 – 11 March 1968), a member of the ancient Acland family of Devon, was a

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officer who served as Naval Attaché to King George V. Acland was the eldest son of Rev. Henry Dyke Acland (born 1850), Rector of Nymet St George, Devon, by his wife Clementina Hart Davis. He was a great-grandson of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet (1787-1871) of Killerton, Devon. He was educated at

Bedford School Bedford School is a 7–18 Single-sex education, boys Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the county town of Bedford in England. Founded in 1552, it is the oldest of four independent schools in Bedford run by the Harpur Trust. Bed ...

and served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. Between 1930 and 1933, he was Commander of the Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham, Devon. In 1933, he became Naval Attaché to King George V. He retired from the

in 1937. In 1917, Edward Dyke Acland was appointed MVO and, in 1937, he was appointed CB. In 1910, Edward Dyke Acland married Phyllis Mary Whipple, with whom he had two children. He died at the age of 89. His wife died five years later, on 25 September 1973.Name Acland, Edward Leopold Dyke Date of Birth: 07 December 1878 Rank: ... , The National Archives
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