| Sir Percy Grant | |
| Birth Date: | 23 September 1867 |
| Birth Name: | Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant |
| Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
| Branch: | Royal Navy |
| Serviceyears: | 1881–1928 |
| Rank: | Admiral |
| Commands: | Admiral Superintendent Portsmouth Dockyard (1922–25) Chief of the Australian Naval Staff (1919–21) (1917–19) (1914–15) (1913–14) (1911–13) (1910–11) (1910) (1906–08)[1] |
| Battles: | Anglo-Egyptian War Brazilian Naval Mutiny First World War Second World War |
| Awards: | Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Admiral Sir Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant, (23 September 1867 – 8 September 1952) was a Royal Navy officer who served as First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff from 1919 to 1921.
Grant saw service in the Egyptian War of 1882 as well as the Brazilian Naval Mutiny in 1893.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 October 1890, posted as a lieutenant for navigation on the battleship, and promoted to commander (Navigation) on 26 June 1902. In September 1902 he was posted to for study at the Royal Naval College,[3] and in January the following year he was posted to the battleship HMS Ramillies, serving in the Mediterranean Fleet.[4]
He went on to serve during the First World War initially as flag captain to Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly in and then as flag captain and chief of staff to Admiral Sir Cecil Burney who was then second-in-command of the Grand Fleet.[2] In that capacity he saw his ship torpedoed and crippled at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.[5]
After the war he was appointed First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff.[2] In this role, he served as defence advisor to Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia at the Empire Conference in London in 1921.[2] He was appointed Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard in September 1922 and served there until January 1925. He retired from the navy in 1928.[2] He was recalled during the Second World War to serve as Captain at the Port of Holyhead.[2]