Admiral Sir Edmund Samuel Poë, GCVO, KCB (11 September 1849 – 1 April 1921) was an Irish Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies station.

[1] Another older brother, George Leslie Poë, became a Royal Navy Captain.

[3] In April 1864, he was appointed to HMS Bombay as a midshipman,[4] and was serving on board when the ship caught fire and sank off Montevideo in December 1864 with the loss of 92 crew.

[5] In May 1875, while serving as a lieutenant on HMS Newcastle, Poë jumped overboard to rescue a man who had fallen into the sea.

For this he was awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society; he rescued another man who'd fallen into the sea in October 1876.