{{Short description|Royal Navy Admiral (1927–2018)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Admiral | name = Sir James Eberle | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}} | image = | image_size = 180px | alt = | caption = Sir James Eberle in 1981 | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|05|31|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|05|17|1927|05|31|df=y}} | death_place = | burial_place = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = Royal Navy | service_years = 1941–1982 | rank = Admiral | service_number = | unit = | commands = Fleet<br/>Naval Home Command | battles = Second World War | awards = Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath | relations = | other_work = }} Admiral '''Sir James Henry Fuller Eberle''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}} (31 May 1927 – 17 May 2018) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as Commander-in-Chief Fleet from 1979 until 1981.
==Naval career== Educated at Clifton College and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth,<ref name=merchant>{{Cite web |url=http://www.merchantventurers.org/inner.html |title=Merchant Venturers |access-date=26 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706061200/http://www.merchantventurers.org/inner.html |archive-date=6 July 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. ref no 11080: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> Eberle was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1941.<ref name=debrett>Debrett's People of Today 1994</ref> He served in the Second World War.<ref name=debrett/>
Eberle was promoted to rear admiral in 1971 and was appointed Assistant Chief of Fleet Support the following year.<ref name=debrett/> He became Flag Officer Sea Training in 1974, Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers and Amphibious Ships in 1975 and Chief of Fleet Support in 1977.<ref name=debrett/> He was promoted to vice admiral on 25 January 1977,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=47137|supp=y|page=1421|date=31 January 1977}}</ref> and to full admiral on 4 May 1979 as he was appointed Commander-in-Chief Fleet.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=47835|supp=y|page=5976| date=4 May 1979}}</ref> He then became Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command in 1981, and retired in 1982.<ref name=debrett/>
==Later life== In retirement Eberle became Director of the Royal Institute for International Affairs.<ref name=debrett/> He was also Rear Admiral and then Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and became Master of the Britannia Beagles hunt.<ref name=merchant/>
==Personal life== In 1950 Eberle married Ann Patricia Thompson; they went on to have one son, Peter, and two daughters, Susan and Sarah.<ref name=debrett/> Eberle died in May 2018 at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/05/20/admiral-sir-james-eberle-obituary/ |title=Admiral Sir James Eberle – obituary |date= 20 May 2018|work=The Telegraph|location=London|accessdate=20 May 2018}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== * Eberle, James ''From Greenland's Icy Shore'', Roundtuit Publishing, 2007; {{ISBN|978-1-904499-15-2}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=John Roberts}} {{s-ttl|title=Flag Officer Sea Training|years=1974–1975}} {{s-aft|after=John Gerard-Pearse}} |- {{succession box | title=Chief of Fleet Support | before=Sir Peter White | after=Sir William Pillar | years=1977–1979}} |- {{succession box|title=Commander-in-Chief Fleet|before=Sir Henry Leach|after=Sir John Fieldhouse|years=1979–1981}} |- {{s-bef|before=Sir Richard Clayton}} {{s-ttl|title=Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command|years=1981–1983}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Desmond Cassidi}} |- {{s-hon}} {{s-bef|before=Sir Anthony Morton|rows=2}} {{s-ttl|title=Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom |years=1988–1994}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Nicholas Hunt|rows=2}} |- {{s-ttl|title=Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom |years=1994–1997}} {{s-end}}
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