Vice-Admiral Charles Andrew Fountaine, CB, DL, JP (25 May 1879 – 24 March 1946) was a Royal Navy officer during the First World War.[1] [2]
Fountaine was born at Narford Hall, Norfolk. He joined the Royal Navy in 1893, and was a Lieutenant when in early 1900 he was posted to the destroyer HMS Fairy, serving in the Devonport Instructional flotilla.[3] He later served with distinction during the First World War, first as a gunnery officer on HMS Lion, and latterly in command of HMS Cambrian. He was Naval Aide de Camp to King George V from 1925–1926. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk in March 1946, just before his death.
He had married Louisa Constance Catherine (31 August 1890 - 28 December 1968) in 1918. [4] [5] She was the younger daughter of Sir Douglas Maclean, of Hawke's Bay in New Zealand. The Neo-Nazi Andrew Fountaine was their son.