Vice Admiral Sir Paul Warner Bush KCB MVO (21 September 1855 – 15 March 1930) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station.
Naval career
Bush joined the Royal Navy in 1859.[1] Promoted to lieutenant in 1877, he served at the Battle of Tokar in February 1884 during the Mahdist War and received the Order of Osminieh (Fourth Class).[1] Promoted to captain in 1897, Bush was given a command of the protected cruiser HMS St George on 26 February 1901.[2][3] In May the following year, he was appointed in command of the armored cruiser HMS Sutlej on her first commission, for the Channel Squadron.[4] He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station in 1910[1] and retired in 1916.[5]
Family
In 1900 he married Rachel Adela Bond.[5] They went on to have four children: three sons, and a daughter:
- George Victor Denis Cromwell (1901)[6]
- Ronald Paul (1902)[7]
- Geoffrey Russell (1904)[8]
- Selina Rachel (1910)[9]
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