{{short description|Royal Navy admiral}} {{Use British English|date=November 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Rear Admiral | name = Sir Jeremy de Halpert | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCVO|CB}} | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|07|09|df=yes}} | birth_place = Lancashire, England | death_place = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = Royal Navy | service_years = 1966–2002 | rank = Rear Admiral | commands = Flag Officer Sea Training<br/>{{HMS|Campbeltown|F86|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Apollo|F70|6}}<br/>HMS ''Sheraton'' | battles = Falklands War | awards = Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order<br/>Companion of the Order of the Bath | relations = | other_work = }} Rear Admiral '''Sir Jeremy Michael de Halpert''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCVO|CB}} (born 9 July 1947<ref>Birth transcript at findmypast.co.uk: General Registry Office of Births and Deaths, England and Wales; Name: DE HALPERT, Jeremy M; Registration district: Lancaster; County: Lancashire; Year of registration: 1947; Quarter of registration: Jul–Aug–Sep; Mother's maiden name: White; Volume 10C, Page 713</ref>) is a former senior Royal Navy officer who served as Naval Secretary from 1998 until his retirement in 2002.
==Naval career== Educated at Canford School and the Britannia Royal Naval College, de Halpert was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1966.<ref name=bio>[http://www.cruising.org.uk/about/halpert Profile of Rear-Admiral Sir Jeremy de Halpert]</ref> He was given command of the minesweeper HMS ''Sheraton'' in 1975 and served in the Falklands War on board the destroyer {{HMS|Bristol|D23|6}} in 1982.<ref name=bio/> Promoted to commander on 31 December 1984,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=50020| supp=y|page=1241|date=28 January 1985}}</ref> he took command of the frigate {{HMS|Apollo|F70|6}} before further promotion to captain in 1990 and command of the frigate {{HMS|Campbeltown|F86|6}}.<ref name=bio/>
De Halpert was appointed chief of staff to the flag officer, Surface Training at Portsmouth in 1992,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/our-organisation/where-we-are/naval-base/portsmouth|title=Portsmouth – Royal Navy|accessdate=18 March 2016}}</ref> Deputy UK National Military Representative to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in 1994 and Director of Overseas Military Activity at the Ministry of Defence in 1996 before taking up the post of Naval Secretary in 1998. He retired from military service in 2002.<ref name=bio/>
==Civic career== In retirement Sir Jeremy was appointed Deputy Master<ref name=bio/> before becoming Executive Chairman of the Corporation of Trinity House,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/horizon/2009-02/pdf/1626920781.pdf |title=The Corporation of Trinity House |publisher=Horizon |date=2009 |accessdate=18 March 2016 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> the charitable body responsible for running lighthouses and maintaining navigation buoys around the United Kingdom, as well as other maritime matters.<ref>[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/career_and_jobs/senior_executive/article3866622.ece A week in the life of Rear-Admiral Sir Jeremy de Halpert]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''The Times'', 4 May 2008</ref>
De Halpert is Prime Warden-elect of the Shipwrights' Company for 2016–17,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shipwrights.co.uk/|title= The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights|accessdate=18 March 2016}}</ref> supporting Lord Mayor The Lord Mountevans, the first Shipwright since Sir Frank Alexander was Lord Mayor of London (1944–45).<ref name=mosley>Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.</ref>
==Family== Of Scottish descent,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stjohnscotland.org.uk/|title=St John Scotland|accessdate=18 March 2016}}</ref> de Halpert is married to Jane ''née'' Fattorini (''now'' styled Lady de Halpert).<ref name=mosley/>
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==External links== * [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/public/home.html ''Who's Who'' 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117022304/http://www.ukwhoswho.com/public/home.html |date=17 November 2017 }} * [http://www.shipwrights.co.uk/ www.shipwrights.co.uk]
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