{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Vice-Admiral |name = Sir Anthony Tippet |honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} |birth_date=2 October 1928 |death_date=13 October 2006 |birth_place= |death_place= |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= 1946 - 1987 |rank= Vice-Admiral |branch= 23px Royal Navy |commands= |unit= |battles= |awards=Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |other_work= }} Vice-Admiral '''Sir Anthony Sanders Tippet''' KCB (2 October 1928 – 13 October 2006) was a Royal Navy officer who ended his career as Chief of Fleet Support.
==Naval career== Educated at West Buckland School in Devon, Tippet joined the Royal Navy in 1946.<ref name=times>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110622094131/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article617232.ece Obituary: Sir Anthony Tippet] The Times, 30 October 2006</ref> He was subsequently called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1958.<ref name=debrett>Debrett's People of Today 1994</ref> He commanded, as a Commander, HMS ''Jufair'' in Bahrain in the 1960s and became Assistant Director of the Naval Plans at the Admiralty and then commanded HMS ''Pembroke'', the Royal Naval Barracks at Chatham.<ref name=times/>
Promoted to Rear-Admiral on 7 July 1979,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=47904 |supp=y|page=8999|date=16 July 1979 |nolink=y}}</ref> he was appointed Assistant Chief of Fleet Support in 1979 and then Flag Officer and Port Admiral at Portsmouth as well as Chief Naval Supply & Secretariat Officer in 1981. Promoted to Vice-Admiral, he was appointed Chief of Fleet Support in 1983 and retired in 1987.<ref name=debrett/>
In retirement he became General Manager and then Chief Executive of the Great Ormond Street Hospital. He lived at Barnstaple in Devon.<ref name=cjn>[http://www.thecnj.com/camden/101906/obit101906_01.html?headline=Hospital_chief%E2%80%99s_naval_style Hospital chief’s naval style] Camden New journal, 19 October 2006</ref>
==Family== In 1950 he married Lola Bassett; they had three sons, Simon, Mark & Charles and one daughter, named AEneone.<ref name=debrett/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box | title=Chief of Fleet Support | before=Sir James Kennon | after=Sir Benjamin Bathurst | years=1983-1986}} {{end}}
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