Edmund George Irving

Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund George Irving, KBE, CB, FRGS (5 April 1910 – 1 October 1990) was a naval hydrographer.

Irving attended St Anthony's preparatory school, Eastbourne, and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

In 1944, when in command of HMS Franklin, Irving resurveyed a number of the ports and harbours in north-west Europe as they fell into allied hands.

In 1948 Irving carried out sea trials of the newly developed two-range Decca system for fixing the position of surveying ships when out of sight of land in HMS Sharpshooter.

[3] He was president of the Royal Geographical Society (1969–71) and received their Patron's Medal in 1976.

One of the routeing charts for the South Atlantic Ocean, prepared under the supervision of E.G. Irving as Hydrographer of the Navy