| Honorific Prefix: | Vice-Admiral |
| Sir Edwin John Horlick | |
| Honorific Suffix: | KBE |
| Birth Date: | 28 September 1925 |
| Allegiance: |  United Kingdom |
| Rank: | Vice-Admiral |
| Branch: | Royal Navy |
| Awards: | KBE |
Vice-Admiral Sir Edwin John Horlick (28 September 1925 – 12 November 2021) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as Director-General of British Ships from 1979 to 1983, and as Chief Naval Engineer Officer from 1981 to 1983.[1]
Edwin John Horlick was born on 28 September 1925.[2] He was educated at Bedford Modern School.[2]
Horlick joined the Royal Navy in 1943.[2] He was Squadron Engineering Officer in the 2nd Frigate Squadron (1960–63) before joining the Ship Department at the Ministry of Defence (1963–66).[2]
Horlick was First Assistant to the Chief Engineer at HM Dockyard, Singapore between 1966 and 1968 and Assistant Director of Submarines between 1969 and 1972.[2] He completed the Senior Officer’s War Course in 1973 and thereafter was Fleet Marine Engineering Officer, Staff of Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet between 1973 and 1975.[2]
Horlick attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1976 and was later made Director of the Project Team for Submarine/Polaris between 1977 and 1979.[2] Promoted to vice-admiral on 27 September 1979, he was Director General of Ships between 1979 and 1983.[2] In 1982 Sir Ted delivered a paper on Submarine Propulsion in the Royal Navy at the fifty-fourth Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture delivered to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London on 26 January 1982.[3]
Horlick was Chief Naval Engineer Officer between 1981 and 1983.[2] He was invested KBE in 1981.[4]
Horlick married Jean Margaret Covington who predeceased him; they had four sons.[2] He died on 12 November 2021, at the age of 96.[5]