Edward Field (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Edward Field CB (December 1828 – 26 March 1912)[1][2] was a Royal Navy officer and English Conservative politician.

Field was born at Chesham, Buckinghamshire and joined the Royal Navy, becoming a lieutenant on 20 December 1851.

[3] He retired from the navy as a captain and in 1881 was living at The Grove, Alverstoke, Hampshire with his wife Mary Ann.

[5] He was by this time a Rear Admiral and spoke on naval matters in parliament.

This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1820s is a stub.

"The Yellow Admiral " Field as depicted by Spy ( Leslie Ward ) in Vanity Fair , July 1891