Admiral Sir Edward Vernon (30 October 1723 – 16 June 1794) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station.

[1] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession and assigned to the 70-gun Berwick under Captain Edward Hawke.

Present at the Battle of Toulon in 1744 against a combined French and Spanish fleet, he and 22 other British seamen were sent by Hawke aboard the disabled enemy vessel Poder in order to secure her as a prize.

Poder was heavily damaged, and Vernon and others began jury rigging masts in order to make her ready to sail.

[2] Vernon was returned to British service as part of a prisoner exchange, and in 1747 was appointed as commander of the sloop HMS Baltimore.