Hugh Lindsay Patrick Heard

Admiral Hugh Lindsay Patrick Heard, CB, DSO (2 August 1869 – 23 July 1934) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First World War.^[1]

Naval Career

Heard joined the Royal Navy, and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 April 1892. He was posted as first and gunnery lieutenant to the cruiser HMS Gibraltar in January 1903,^[2] while she served on the Cape of Good Hope Station. Promotion to commander followed on 31 December 1903, and to captain on 30 June 1910.

He was Admiral Superintendent Devonport dockyard from 1922 to 1924.