James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB (6 October 1782 – 8 January 1869) was a Royal Navy officer. As a volunteer, he fought at the Battle of Groix, at the Battle of the Glorious First of June and at the Battle of Cape St Vincent during the French Revolutionary Wars and then, as a midshipman, served under Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile. Gordon became commanding officer of the 28-gun frigate which took part of a hard-fought action between three British ships and the combined forces of a
Charles Little (Royal Navy officer) in establishing the Admiralty Torpedo, Mining and Electrical Training Establishment at Roedean School in Brighton. He served in World War II becoming Head of British Joint Staff Mission to Washington D. C. in 1941 and Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in 1942. He retired in 1945. He lived at Thakeham in West Sussex. Charles Little (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little (14 June 1882 – 20 June 1973) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. Little joined the Royal Navy at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth in 1897.