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{{Infobox military person
|name= Admiral Sir Mark Pizey
|birth_date={{birth date|1899|06|17|df=yes}}
|death_date={{death date and age|1993|05|17|1899|06|17|df=yes}}
|birth_place=[[Axbridge, Somerset]]
|death_place=[[Burnham-on-Sea]]
|image=Hm the King Pays 4-day Visit To the Home Fleet. 18 To 21 March 1943, Scapa Flow, Wearing the Uniform of An Admiral of the Home Fleet the King Paid a 4-day Visit To the Home Fleet. A15175.jpg
|caption=Mark Pizey (second from left) with [[King George VI]], [[Irvine Glennie]] and others, March 1943
|nickname=
|allegiance= United Kingdom India
|branch=[[Royal Navy]] [[Indian Navy]]
|serviceyears=1912–1958
|rank= [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]]
|commands= [[Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth]] [[Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy]] [[HMS President (shore establishment)|HMS ''President'']] {{HMS|Tyne|F24|6}} {{HMS|Campbell|1918|6}} [[RMS Ausonia|HMS ''Ausonia'']] {{HMS|Fortune|H70|6}} {{HMS|Boreas|H77|6}} {{HMS|Torrid|1917|6}}
|unit=
|battles= [[First World War]] [[Second World War]]
|awards= [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]] [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] [[Distinguished Service Order]] & [[Medal bar|Bar]] [[Mentioned in Despatches]]
|laterwork=
}}
[[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]] '''Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GBE|CB|DSO*|DL}} (17 June 1899 – 17 May 1993) was a [[Royal Navy]] officer who served as the last Commander-in-Chief and first [[Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy]] from 1951 to 1955.

==Early life and career==
Pizey was born in [[Axbridge, Somerset]], the son of the Rev. Charles Edward Pizey (1853–1932), and Geraldine Fowle (1866–1949). He joined the Royal Navy in 1912 and served as a [[midshipman]] aboard [[HMS Conway (school ship)|HMS ''Conway'']] and {{HMS|Revenge|06|6}} during the [[First World War]]. He was promoted to [[sub-lieutenant]] on 15 December 1918 and to [[lieutenant]] on 15 December 1920,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31104|page=199|date=3 January 1919}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32583|page=552|date=20 January 1922}}</ref> serving on {{HMS|Danae|D44|6}} from 1921 to 1923.<ref name=unit>[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersP1a.html#Pizey_CTM Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939–1945]</ref> Pizey then served as a [[First Lieutenant]], first aboard {{HMS|Violent|1917|6}} in the [[Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom)|Atlantic Fleet]] from 1924 to 1925, and then aboard {{HMS|Winchelsea|D46|6}} in the Mediterranean from 1926 to 1927.

He was promoted to [[lieutenant commander]] on 15 December 1928.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33448|page=8327|date=18 December 1928}}</ref> and served from 1929 to 1930 as Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Vice Admiral Sir W.A. Howard Kelly in the Mediterranean, aboard the battleship HMS ''Revenge''. From 1930 to 1932 he commanded the destroyers {{HMS|Torrid|1917|6}} and {{HMS|Boreas|H77|6}}. He was promoted to [[commander]] on 31 December 1933.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34011|page=52|date=2 January 1934}}</ref> From 1935 to 1937, he was the Executive Officer aboard {{HMS|Woolwich|F80|6}} in the Mediterranean, and then commanded the destroyer {{HMS|Fortune|H70|6}} in the [[Home Fleet]] from 1938 to 1939.

==Second World War==
[[File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War A20814.jpg|thumb|left|Pizey addresses the crew of HMS ''Tyne'' before his departure to take up command of HMS President. c. December 1943]]
In June 1939, Pizey was promoted to [[Captain (Royal Navy)|captain]]. From 1939 to 1940, he commanded the [[armed merchant cruiser]] [[RMS Ausonia|HMS ''Ausonia'']] as part of the Atlantic convoys. From 1940 to 1942, he commanded the destroyer {{HMS|Campbell|1918|6}} in the Channel and North Sea, seeing action against the German battleships ''[[German battleship Gneisenau|Gneisenau]]'' and ''[[German battleship Scharnhorst|Scharnhorst]]'' as well as the heavy cruiser ''[[German cruiser Prinz Eugen|Prinz Eugen]]'', for which he was appointed a [[Companion of the Bath]] on 27 March 1942<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35506|supp=y|page=1445|date=27 March 1942}}</ref> and was also awarded a [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO) and was [[mentioned in despatches]].

In July 1942, he was given the command of a destroyer depot ship, {{HMS|Tyne|F24|6}}, and served as a chief staff officer to a Rear Admiral in charge of protecting Soviet convoys in the North Sea. For this service, he was awarded a [[Medal bar|Bar]] to his DSO on 27 November 1942.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35805|supp=y|page=5225|date=27 November 1942}}</ref>

In December 1943, Pizey was appointed Director of Operations Division (Home) for the Admiralty, commanding [[HMS President (shore establishment)|HMS ''President'']]. He served in this capacity until the end of the war.

==Postwar career==
In 1946, Pizey was appointed a [[Commodore (Royal Navy)|commodore]]<ref name=unit/> and appointed as Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, serving aboard {{HMS|Nelson|28|6}}. He was promoted to [[Rear Admiral (Royal Navy)|rear admiral]] in 1948 and served as Senior Naval Liaison Officer and Chief of UK Services Liaison Staff, Australia, aboard [[Singapore Naval Base|HMS ''Terror'']] (RN base, Singapore). From 1950 to 1951, he served as Flag Officer Commanding, First Cruiser Squadron, aboard [[HMS Liverpool (C11)|HMS ''Liverpool'']]. On 30 November 1951, he was promoted to [[Vice Admiral (Royal Navy)|vice admiral]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=39398|page=6250|date=30 November 1951}}</ref>

In October 1951, Pizey replaced [[Vice-admiral (Royal Navy)|Vice Admiral]] [[Edward Parry (Royal Navy officer)|Edward Parry]] as the last Commander-in-Chief of the [[Indian Navy]]. He was knighted with the [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]] in the Coronation Honours List of 1953,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=39863|supp=y|page=2947|date=1 June 1953}}</ref> and was promoted [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|admiral]] on 31 December 1954 (seniority from 16 December.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40383|supp=|page=303|date=5 January 1955}}</ref> In April 1955, Pizey became the first [[Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy]], which had replaced the former designation of Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy. He was honoured with the [[Orders, decorations, and medals of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Order of the People's Army]] upon the state visit of [[Josip Broz Tito]] to India.

Pizey was succeeded in his post by [[Vice-admiral (Royal Navy)|Vice Admiral]] [[Stephen Hope Carlill]] in July 1955. From later that year he served as [[Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth]]. He was promoted to a [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]] in the 1957 New Year Honours,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40960|supp=y|page=6|date=1 January 1957}}</ref> and retired in 1958. In 1962, he was appointed a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of the County of Somerset.<ref name=unit/>

==Personal life and death==
In 1928, Pizey married Phyllis May D'Angibau (27 November 1904 – 4 April 1993). The couple had two daughters:
* Pamela Mary, who married [[1980 Birthday Honours|Lieutenant Commander James Barry Armstrong Hawkins MBE]] and
* Sarah Margaret, who married Lieutenant Commander James Alexander Pountney Coats (1927–1993).

Sir Mark Pizey died at [[Burnham-on-Sea]], Somerset on 17 May 1993, aged 93. His wife had died the previous month at the age of 88.

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