Vice Admiral Sir Somerford Francis Teagle KBE (born 9 June 1938)[2] is a retired senior officer of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN).
Teagle was born in Lower Hutt on 9 June 1938.
[3] Teagle served as Chief of Naval Staff, the professional head of the RNZN, from 1989 to 1991, and in New Zealand's most senior military post as Chief of Defence Force from 1991 until his retirement in 1995.
[1][4] He is notable for having ended the rum ration in the RNZN, with effect from March 1990.
[2] In the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.