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.