Admiral Sir Peter Geoffrey Marshall Herbert, KCB, OBE (28 February 1929 – 3 May 2019) was a senior Royal Navy officer and former Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.
[1] He was made Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Blake in 1974, and then Deputy Chief of the Polaris Executive in 1976.
[1] He went on to be Flag Officer, Carriers and Amphibious Ships in 1978 and Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training in 1980.
[2] He was promoted to full admiral on 10 June 1983,[3] and became Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff the same year.
[5] In 1953, he married Anne Maureen McKeown (died 11 January 2012) and they went on to have one son and one daughter.