| Honorific Prefix: | Admiral |
| Sir Richard Poore | |
| Birth Date: | 7 July 1853 |
| Birth Place: | Cobourg, Ontario, Canada |
| Death Place: | Vevey, Switzerland |
| Allegiance: |  United Kingdom |
| Serviceyears: | 1866–1917 |
| Rank: | Admiral |
| Commands: | Australia Station Nore Command |
| Battles: | Mahdist War World War I |
| Awards: | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy |
Admiral Sir Richard Poore, 4th Baronet (7 July 1853 – 8 December 1930) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.[1]
Poore served in the Naval Brigade as part of the Perak expedition to Malaya in 1875.[2] He also took part in the Bombardment of Alexandria in 1882[2] and the unsuccessful Nile Expedition to Khartoum to relieve General Gordon in 1884.[2] He became captain of in 1897 and in that capacity was involved in operations that led to the pacification of Crete later that year.[3] In April 1898 he was appointed in command of the battleship, also serving in the Mediterranean.[4]
On 9 March 1900 he was appointed flag captain to, flagship and yacht to the port admiral at Devonport, for command of the RN Barracks.[5] In June 1901, he was appointed a Naval Aide de Camp to King Edward VII. He transferred to a more operative command in December 1902, when he was appointed Captain of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Jupiter, serving in the Channel Fleet.[6]
He became Rear Admiral for the Mediterranean and Channel Fleet in 1904 and Commander-in-Chief of the Australia Station in 1908.[2] Finally he became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1911, serving in that post into World War I.[2] He retired in 1917.[2] On 19 July 1920, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire.
In 1885, he married Ida Margaret Graves, daughter of Rt Rev Charles Graves, sister of Alfred Perceval Graves, and aunt of poet Robert Graves. They had one son:[1]
He lived at the East End Manor in Durrington in Wiltshire.[7]
He died in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1930. After his death, the baronetcy was inherited by his nephew Edward Poore (1894–1938), son of his younger brother, Herbert.[1] His wife died in Switzerland on 5 February 1941.[8] She was the author of a number of books.[9] [10]
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