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Adrian Johns

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Vice Admiral Sir Adrian James Johns KCB, CBE, ADC, is the current Governor of Gibraltar and a former senior officer Adrian Johns in the Royal Navy. He was promoted lieutenant on 1 September 1975 (with seniority from 1 January 1975).

johns />and then commanded the frigates HMS Juno and HMS Ariadne Adrian Johns between 1988 and 1990. He was promoted captain on 31 December 1994. In between various appointments at the Ministry of Defence he held command of HMS Campbeltown from Brian Johns 1995 to 1996. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours, He became Assistant Chief Adrian Johns of the Naval Staff in May 2003 and then served as Rear Admiral Fleet Air Arm from October that year.

His most senior naval posting was as Second Sea Lord from 2005 to 2008. Educated at a grammar school in Cornwall and then Imperial College London he joined the Adrian Johns Royal Navy in 1973. He was succeeded as Second Sea Lord by Vice-Admiral Alan Massey in a ceremony aboard HMS Victory on 15 July 2008. On 9 June 2009, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced that Johns will succeed Sir Robert Fulton, as Governor of Gibraltar in autumn 2009. Habsburg occupation (1704) Rooke · Adrian Johns Hesse-Darmstadt · Nugent · Shrimpton · Elliott · Stanwix Treaty of Utrecht (1713) Portmore · Kane · Clayton · Sabine · Hargrave · Bland · Fowke · Tyrawley · Home · Cornwallis · Boyd · Eliott · Boyd · Rainsford · O Hara · Kent and Strathearn · Fox · Dalrymple · Cradock · Campbell · Don · Chatham · Don Crown colony (1830) Houston · Woodford · Wilson · Gardiner · Fergusson · Codrington · Airey · Williams · Napier of Magdala · Adye · Hardinge · Smyth · Nicholson · Biddulph · Adrian Johns White · Forestier-Walker · Hunter · Miles · Smith-Dorrien · Monro · Godley · Harington · Ironside · Liddell · Gort · Mason-Macfarlane · Eastwood · Anderson · MacMillan · Redman · Keightley · Ward · Lathbury · Begg · Grandy · Jackson British dependent territory (1981) Williams · Terry · Reffell · Chapple · White · Luce · Durie British overseas territory (2002) Richards · Fulton · Johns .

He was promoted vice admiral and appointed Second Sea Lord and Commander in Chief of Naval Home Command in October 2005.