{{Short description|Royal Navy Admiral and Second Sea Lord (1870–1955)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Admiral | name = Sir Hubert Brand | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|KCMG|KCVO}} | image = Captain Hon. Hubert Brand Cvo Art.IWMART1720.jpg | caption = 1917 portrait by Francis Dodd | birth_date = 20 May 1870 | death_date = {{death-date and age|14 December 1955|20 May 1870}} | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{navy|United Kingdom}} | service_years = 1883–1932 | rank = Admiral | unit = | commands = Flag Officer, Royal Yachts<br />Atlantic Fleet<br />Plymouth Command | battles = World War I | awards = Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath<br />Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George<br />Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order | relations = }} Admiral '''Sir Hubert George Brand''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|KCMG|KCVO}} (20 May 1870 – 14 December 1955) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.
==Background== Brand was the second son of Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden, Governor of New South Wales, and the grandson of Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden, Speaker of the House of Commons. His mother was Susan Henrietta Cavendish, daughter of Lord George Cavendish. His three surviving brothers also gained distinction: Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden, and the Honourable Roger Brand were both Brigadier-Generals in the Army while the Honourable Robert Brand was a businessman and civil servant who was raised to the peerage as Baron Brand in 1946.<ref name="thepeerage.com">[http://thepeerage.com/p3722.htm#i37212 thepeerage.com Admiral Hon. Sir Hubert George Brand]</ref>
==Naval career== Brand joined the Royal Navy in 1883.<ref name=lh>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BRAND1.shtml |title=Brand, Hubert|publisher=Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205230338/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BRAND1.shtml|archive-date=5 February 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Appointed acting Sub-Lieutenant on 14 September 1889, he was confirmed in this rank in June 1891,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 26171|date=12 June 1891 |page=3118}}</ref> and promoted to Lieutenant on 30 June 1892.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 26309|date=22 July 1892 |page=4187}}</ref> He was promoted to Commander on 1 September 1902,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 27473|date=12 September 1902 |page=5889}}</ref> and appointed in command of the destroyer HMS ''Success'' on 20 December 1902,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military Intelligence|date=15 December 1902 |page=6 |issue=36951}}</ref> but transferred to take command of HMS ''Arab'' on her first commission only three weeks later, as she succeeded the ''Success'' as senior officer′s ship in the Portsmouth instructional flotilla on 12 January 1903.<ref>Brand Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 118.</ref><ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=13 January 1903 |page=8 |issue=36976}}</ref>
He was appointed Naval Attaché in Tokyo in 1912.<ref name=lh/> He served in World War I as Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord and then as chief of staff to the Vice-Admiral commanding the Battle Cruiser Fleet in 1916.<ref name=lh/> On 26 June 1919, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Hertfordshire.<ref>{{London Gazette | issue=31463 |page=9136 | date=18 July 1919}}</ref> After the war he became commander of the King's Yachts from 1919 and then commanded the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron from 1922 before becoming Naval Secretary in 1925.<ref name=lh/> He went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel later that year.<ref name=lh/> He was made Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet in 1927 and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1929.<ref name=lh/> He was also appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1931; He retired in 1932.<ref name=lh/>
==Family== Brand married Norah Greene, daughter of Sir Conyngham Greene, British Ambassador to Japan, in 1914. They had two daughters, of whom only the eldest reached adulthood. Norah died in March 1924. Brand remained a widower until his death in December 1955, aged 85.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box|title=Naval Secretary|before=Michael Hodges|after=Frank Larken|years=April 1925–April 1925}} |- {{succession box | before=Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt | title=Second Sea Lord | years=1925–1927 | after=Sir Michael Hodges}} |- {{s-bef | before=Sir Henry Oliver}} {{s-ttl | title=Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet | years=1927–1929}} {{s-aft | after=Sir Ernle Chatfield}} |- {{succession box | title=Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth | years=1929–1932 | before=Sir Rudolph Bentinck| after=Sir Eric Fullerton}} |- {{s-hon}} {{s-bef | before=Sir Walter Cowan}} {{s-ttl | title=First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp | years=1931–1932}} {{s-aft | after=Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, Bt}} |- {{s-bef|before=Sir Montague Browning}} {{s-ttl|title=Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom |years=1939–1945}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Percy Noble}} {{s-end}}
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