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 ...

Iain Stuart Lower, is a senior

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officer. He was Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy) 2020-2022. He is the current Deputy Master of

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Royal Navy career

Lower joined the

on 1 May 1992. He became commanding officer of the

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in 2009 and, in that capacity, was deployed to the

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. He went on to become commanding officer of the destroyer in 2013, Head of Military Plans for Africa and the Americas in 2014, and the Chief of the Defence Staff's personal Liaison Officer to the

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in 2016. After that he became Director for Strategy, International Relations, Maritime Sector, Parliamentary & Academic Engagement in September 2017, and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy) from November 2020 until November 2022, when he retired from active royal navy service.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

After leaving Royal Navy service, he worked at the

Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mil ...

, as the Director of Strategy, Communications & Commonwealth Affairs.

Trinity House

In September 2023, he was nominated to become Deputy Master of

, replacing Captain

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. In February 2024, he took up his position as Deputy Master. He was also sworn in as Elder Brethren of the court.

Other work

Lower has been a Trustee of

The Seafarers' Charity The Seafarers' Charity (Seafarers UK, formerly King George's Fund for Sailors) is the leading grant-making charity that was established in 1917 as The King George’s Fund for Sailors, to support the families of seafarers lost at sea during World ...

since 2021.

Honours

Lower was appointed a

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in the

2022 Birthday Honours The 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to Orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms, various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those ...

References

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