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IV ADMIRAL SIR FREDERIC EDWARD ERRINGTON BROCK, K.C.M.G., C.B. ADMIRAL SIR FREDERIC EDWARD ERRINGTON BROCK, K.C.M.G., C.B., was born on October 151*1, 1854. He entered the Navy in 1868 and became Lieutenant on December 8th, 1879, Commander on January ist, 1893, and Captain on June 3Oth, 1898. From 1907 to 1908 he was Aide-de-Camp to the King, and became in the latter year a Rear- Admiral. From 1909 to 1910 he was in command of the Portsmouth Division of the Home Fleet, and from September, 1912, to October, 1915, he was Senior Officer at Gibraltar, being in 1913 promoted to Vice-Admiral. He was awarded the C.B. (Civil) on September 27th, 1912.