Korean War Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Cargill Begg, GCB, DSO, DSC, KStJ (1 October 1908 – 13 July 1995) was a Royal Navy officer.

In that role he vehemently opposed plans to introduce large new aircraft carriers and instead managed to persuade the British Government to develop the design for three small "through-deck cruisers".

[2] In January 1941 he was appointed gunnery officer of the battleship HMS Warspite in the Mediterranean Fleet when it was flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham (soon to be First Sea Lord himself).

[6] It was an engagement in which the ships Warspite, Barham and Valiant caught the Italian heavy cruisers Fiume and Zara by surprise, with their guns still trained fore and aft, and sank them both in a brutally short action of less than two minutes.

[6] Cossack took part in the Korean War, being involved in the pre-invasion shelling and blockade of Inchon[9] and Begg was mentioned in despatches[10] and appointed to the Distinguished Service Order on 3 October 1952.

[13] Promoted to rear-admiral on 7 January 1957, he became Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in February 1957[6] and went on to be Flag Officer, Second-in-Command, Far East Fleet, in December 1958.

[19] Begg strongly believed that the future of the Navy depended as much on surface-to-air missiles as on naval air power, and he vehemently opposed plans to introduce large new aircraft carriers.