{{Short description|Royal Navy Admiral (1939–2014)}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2025}} {{For|the musician Hugo White|The Maccabees (band)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Admiral |name = Sir Hugo White |honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|CBE|DL}} |caption= |birth_date= {{birth date|1939|10|22|df=yes}} |birth_place= Torquay, Devon |death_date= {{death date and age|2014|06|01|1939|10|22|df=yes}} |burial_place= |nickname= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Navy |service_years= 1960–97 |rank= Admiral |unit= |commands= Commander-in-Chief Fleet<br/>Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland<br/>{{HMS|Bristol|D23|6}}<br/>4th Frigate Squadron<br/>{{HMS|Avenger|F185|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Salisbury|F32|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Oracle|S16|6}} |battles= Cod Wars<br/>Falklands War |awards= Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath<br/>Commander of the Order of the British Empire |other_work= Governor of Gibraltar (1995–97) }} {{Infobox viceroy styles | image= 150px | name= Sir Hugo White<br>(1995–1997) | dipstyle= His Excellency | offstyle= Your Excellency }} Admiral '''Sir Hugo Moresby White''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|CBE|DL}} (22 October 1939 – 1 June 2014) was a senior officer of the Royal Navy and subsequently Governor of Gibraltar.
==Early life== White was born at Torquay, Devon, son of Hugh Fortescue Moresby White (1891–1979), CMG, of the Colonial Office, Senior Resident in Nigeria, and Elizabeth ("Betty") Sophia Pennington Brandt, daughter of Captain Frank Brandt, killed at the Battle of Coronel in command of HMS Monmouth. He was a descendant of Admiral of the Fleet Fairfax Moresby.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-108669|title=White, Sir Hugo Moresby|publisher=Oxford Dictionary of Biography|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.108669 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |access-date=22 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/admiral-sir-hugo-white-commander-who-fought-exocet-attacks-during-falklands-war-and-was-later-governor-gibraltar-9588010.html|title=Admiral Sir Hugo White: Commander who fought off Exocet attacks during the Falklands War and was later Governor of Gibraltar|date=6 July 2014|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=22 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80004687|title=Moresby-White, Elizabeth Sophia Pennington (Oral history)|publisher=Imperial War Museum|access-date=22 January 2021}}</ref>
White was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, and at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, where he distinguished himself as Chief Cadet Captain, Captain of Fencing, and playing on the rugby First XV.<ref name="The Old Pangbournian Record 2016, p. 256">The Old Pangbournian Record: Old Pangbournian Obituaries and Death Notices 1917–2016, p. 256</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://type21club.org/tribute-admiral-sir-hugo-white-gcb-cbe-dl|title=Admiral Sir Hugo Moresby White|publisher=Type 21 Club|access-date=22 January 2021|archive-date=16 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116212144/https://type21club.org/tribute-admiral-sir-hugo-white-gcb-cbe-dl/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Military career== Having attended the Britannia Royal Naval College, White was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1960.<ref name=debrett>Debretts People of Today 1994</ref>
He was appointed Commanding Officer of the submarine, {{HMS|Oracle|S16|6}}, in 1970 and then went to teach at the Britannia Royal Naval College in 1971.<ref name=debrett/> He went on to be Commander Submarine Sea Training in 1973 and Commanding Officer of the frigate, {{HMS|Salisbury|F32|6}}, in 1975 during the Cod Wars.<ref name=debrett/> He was made Captain Naval Plans in 1978 and Commanding Officer of the frigate, {{HMS|Avenger|F185|6}}, as well as Captain of the 4th Frigate Squadron in 1981 and served in the Falklands War.<ref name=debrett/> He went to work for the Chief of Defence Staff in 1982 and became Commanding Officer of the destroyer, {{HMS|Bristol|D23|6}}, in 1985.<ref name=debrett/>
He was appointed Flag Officer Third Flotilla and Commander of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Striking Force in 1987.<ref name=debrett/> He became Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1988 and Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as Commander Northern Atlantic in 1991.<ref name=debrett/> He went on to be Commander-in-Chief Fleet in 1992.<ref name=navy>{{cite web |url = http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |title = Royal Navy Senior Appointments |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105247/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |archive-date = 15 March 2012 }}</ref>
==Later life== White was appointed Governor of Gibraltar in 1995.<ref name=whitaker>Whitaker's Almanack 1996</ref> He was also life president of the Type 21 Club Association.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.type21club.org.uk/21-Committee01.htm |title=Type 21 Club Association |access-date=7 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141119045639/http://www.type21club.org.uk/21-Committee01.htm |archive-date=19 November 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He suffered a serious head injury in a fall in 2002, from which he made a gradual recovery but which impacted his later years.<ref name="The Old Pangbournian Record 2016, p. 256"/><ref>The Old Dragon, Dragon School, Oxford, issue 4, 2015, Obituaries, p.22</ref> He died on 1 June 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbc.gi/news/3773/former-governor,-sir-hugo-white,-dies-aged-74|title=Former Governor, Sir Hugo White, dies aged 74|publisher=GBC News|date=3 June 2014|access-date=4 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606230446/http://www.gbc.gi/news/3773/former-governor%2C-sir-hugo-white%2C-dies-aged-74|archive-date=6 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1966 he married Josephine Mary Lorimer Pedler, having met her on a P&O liner return journey from Australia; they had two sons.<ref name=debrett/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10889508/Admiral-Sir-Hugo-White-obituary.html Admiral Sir Hugo White – obituary], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 10 June 2014
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