Vice-Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn, KCSI, KCMG, CB, DSO (25 January 1879 – 29 December 1957) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who served during the Second Boer War and First World War, and was the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Indian Navy from 1928 until his retirement in 1934.

[4] Walwyn was then appointed an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance at the Admiralty, remaining in that post into the first year of the First World War, finally returning to sea duty in 1915 as Commander (Second-in-Command) of the new battleship Warspite.

There he saw action in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, and was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Order on 15 September.

[5] He was promoted to captain on 31 December 1916,[6] and in June 1917, was awarded the Order of St. Stanislas, 2nd Class (with Swords) by Russia.

[12] The same year Walwyn was appointed Flag Officer Commanding and Director of the Royal Indian Marine, receiving promotion to vice admiral on 1 November 1932,[13] and on 2 January 1933 was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI).

[citation needed] In recognition of her public and philanthropic work for the community in Newfoundland, his wife, Lady Eileen Mary Walwyn (1883–1973), the daughter of Major General Turner van Straubenzee, CB and Florinda Harriette van Straubenzee, was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1947.