Rear Adm David Cooke, CB, MBE

Career: joined RN 1973, specialised in submarines 1976; comanded: HMS Onslaught 1986-88, HMS Torbay 1992-94, HMS Cumberland 2000-01; dir of equipment plan MOD 2001-04, Dep Cdr Strike Force NATO Naples 2004-06, Fleet Cdr (Ops), Rear Adm Submarines and Cdr Allied Submarines North 2006-09, clerk (chief exec) Christ's Hosp Fndn 2009-; memb Younger Brother Trinity House 1989; Freeman City of London 2008, Liveryman Worshipful Co of Shipwrights 2008