Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin
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Admiral of the Fleet Terence Thornton Lewin, Baron Lewin, KG, GCB, LVO, DSC (1920-1999) was an Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy.
Having entered the Navy in 1939 he served with distinction being mentioned in dispatches three times and being awarded the DSC. Post war he rose rapidly through the ranks and was eventually appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff . He was Chief of the Defence Staff and member of the War Cabinet during the Falklands War and it was for this role that he was created a life peer, as Baron Lewin, of Greenwich in Greater London, and appointed a Knight of the Garter. He retired from service in late 1982.
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