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Admiral Sir Horace Rochfort Law, (23 June 1911 – 30 January 2005) was Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command.
He served in the Korean War arranging naval gunfire support for the Korean Army.
He went on to be Flag Officer Sea Training in 1961, Flag Officer Submarines in 1963 and Controller of the Navy in 1965. He was made Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command and Flag Officer, Portsmouth Area in 1970. He was also First and Principal Naval Aide-de-camp to Elizabeth II from 1970 to 1972. He retired in 1972.
In 1979 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He chose the subject "Belief and Discipline in a Free Society".
He was a Governor of Monkton Combe School from 1969 to 1994.Monkton Combe School Register
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Post-war service
He was appointed commanding officer of the destroyer HMS Duchess in 1951 and the carrier HMS Centaur in 1958 and then made Commander of Britannia Royal Naval College in 1960.
Retirement
In retirement he became Chairman of Hawthorn Leslie and Company and was a member of Security Commission from 1973 to 1982.
Personal life
In 1941 he married Heather Coryton: they went on to have two sons and two daughters. Law was a resident of South Harting, West Sussex, where he was a lay preacher at the parish church; a room at the church is named after him. He was president of the Officers' Christian Union and chairman of the Church Army Board during the 1970s and 1980s.
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