Admiral of the Fleet Sir Gerard Henry Uctred Noel, GCB, KCMG (5 March 1845 – 23 May 1918) was a Royal Navy officer.

[4] He joined the corvette HMS Active on the West Coast of Africa Station in late 1873 and commanded a naval brigade which took part in the capture of Kumasi in February 1874 during the Second Anglo-Ashanti War.

[4] Promoted to commander on 31 March 1874,[5] Noel became executive officer in the frigate HMS Immortalité at Portsmouth in 1874 and, having been awarded the gold medal of the Royal United Services Institute for his work on naval tactics in 1875, he became executive officer aboard the Royal Yacht HMY Victoria and Albert, also based at Portsmouth, in 1878.

[8] Promoted to rear admiral on 8 May 1896,[9] he became Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet, with his flag in the battleship HMS Revenge, in January 1898.

[7] During this tour, following the murder of the British vice-consul in Heraklion and an attack on the Customs House there, Noel landed a force in Crete in September 1898 to court-martial the terrorists and generally restore order.

[12] Noel became Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves in May 1900, and hoisted his flag on board the battleship HMS Alexandra.