| Honorific Prefix: | Commander |
| William Ibbett | |
| Birth Date: | 21 June 1886 |
| Birth Place: | Oxted, Surrey, England |
| Death Place: | Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England |
| Rank: | Commander |
| Laterwork: | Radio presenter |
Commander William Ibbett (21 June 1886 - 28 June 1975) was an English submariner, and later a BBC Radio broadcaster.
Ibbett was born in 1886[1] at Oxted, Surrey, England.[2] After growing up in Wiltshire,[3] he joined the Royal Navy, serving during the First World War, including an attachment to the Russian submarine service, during which the October Revolution occurred, and until 1922, then re-enlisting in the Second World War. Between the wars, his various jobs included tea-planting in Ceylon and work on a whaling ship in the Antarctic.
He appeared in the BBC in the 1930s,[4] and, during the 1950s, appeared regularly on the BBC radio programme Woman's Hour, reminiscing about his career.[5] He was also featured on a 1969 BBC record, Voices From Woman's Hour Past And Present.[6] His radio work was credited simply as "Commander Ibbett".
He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 21 October 1957.[7]
He died in June 1975 at the age of 89 in Burgess Hill, West Sussex.