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Vice Admiral Vice admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, usually equivalent to lieutenant general and air marshal. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral. Australia In the Royal Australian Navy, the rank of Vice ...
Sir Ian Fergus Corder, (born 6 August 1960) is a retired senior
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officer who served as UK Military Representative to NATO, and was the
Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey The lieutenant governor of Guernsey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown. The role of the lieutenant governor is to act as the ''de facto'' head of state in Guern ...
from 2016 to 2021.


Naval career

Educated at
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and
Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterhouse is the oldest Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has around 300 undergraduate and 175 graduate stud ...
, Corder joined the
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in 1978.EU Biography
/ref> He commanded the
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, then the submarine and finally the frigate . He went on to become Naval Assistant to the
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, Deputy Director of the unit at the
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responsible for policy regarding
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, the
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and the
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and then Chief of the Strategic Systems Executive. After that he became Director of Naval Personnel Strategy and then Deputy Commander Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO before becoming Commander Operations and Rear Admiral, Submarines in March 2011 and in that capacity he was the UK's Maritime Commander for operations over
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(
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) in Spring 2011. He attended the
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in April 2011. He went on to be UK Military Representative to NATO in May 2013. Corder retired from the Royal Navy on 1 July 2016. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge in 2016.


Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey

In March 2016 Corder was announced as the next
Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey The lieutenant governor of Guernsey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown. The role of the lieutenant governor is to act as the ''de facto'' head of state in Guern ...
, to assume the post by May. He was appointed a
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(KBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours.


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