{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Vice-Admiral |name = Sir James Kennon |honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CBE}} |birth_name=James Edward Campbell Kennon |birth_date=26 November 1925<ref name="death">''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007''</ref> |death_date={{dda|22 January 1991|26 November 1925|df=y}} |birth_place= Liverpool, England<ref>''New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917–1967''</ref> |death_place= Hampshire, England |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= 1945 – 1983 |rank= Vice-Admiral |branch= 23px Royal Navy |commands= |unit= |battles= |awards=Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath<br/>Commander of the Order of the British Empire |other_work= }} Vice-Admiral '''Sir James Edward Campbell Kennon''' KCB CBE (26 November 1925 – 22 January 1991) was a Royal Navy officer who ended his career as Chief of Fleet Support.
He was educated at Stowe School.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Old Stoic News |journal=The Stoic |date=July 1979 |volume=163 |page=353 |url=https://www.stowe.co.uk/getmedia/f283bd10-d573-495e-bb73-b6658ffc484b/The_Stoic_163_July_1979 |accessdate=18 May 2019}}</ref>
==Naval career== Kennon joined the Royal Navy in 1945.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37699|page=4246|date=23 August 1946}}</ref> On promotion to rear admiral, he was appointed Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy) in 1978<ref>Whitaker's Almanack 1979</ref> and Port Admiral at Rosyth as well as Chief Naval Supply & Secretariat Officer in 1979.<ref>Whitaker's Almanack 1980</ref> Following promotion to vice admiral, he became Chief of Fleet Support in 1981.<ref>Whitaker's Almanack 1982</ref> In that capacity he managed the run-down of Chatham Dockyard<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hmsgangestoterror.org/RNB/HMDockyardChatham.htm |title=HM Dockyard – Chatham |access-date=28 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505062621/http://www.hmsgangestoterror.org/RNB/HMDockyardChatham.htm |archive-date=5 May 2010 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> before he retired in 1983.<ref>Whitaker's Almanack 1984</ref> He died in January 1991.<ref>"Obituary: Vice Admiral Sir James Kennon." ''The Times'', 26 January 1991</ref>
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