Neville Purvis

Educated at Charterhouse School, Selwyn College, Cambridge, and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Purvis joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and specialized as a submariner.^[1] Promoted to rear admiral, he was appointed Director-General, Future Material Projects in 1987^[2] and Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training in 1988^[3] and then, having been promoted to vice admiral, he served as Chief of Fleet Support from 1991 until his retirement in 1994.^[4]

In retirement he became Director General of the British Standards Institution (BSI) and thereafter Chief Executive of the British Safety Council^[5] and, more recently, a Trustee of the Wellington Trust, a charity formed to preserve the sloop HMS Wellington.^[6] He lives at Bramley in Surrey.^[1]