Charles Adrian Scott, a retired Commander RN, died sometime in 2020 as the OP Society
discovered in 2026. He was 77, married to Tjertske and the father of two daughters Allison
and Carolyn.

Charles was born in wartime in Campbeltown, Argyle in 1943 where his father, an RN
officer, was then based. He arrived at the NCP in September 1956 from West House school in
Birmingham. After a year in Port Jackson division, he transferred to Harbinger Division, then
housed in Bowden Green, and eventually rose to become Chief of the division in 1961. Along
the way he played right wing in the Hockey 1st XIs of 1960 and 1961, represented the school
at sailing in 1960 and 1961 and was a member of Form VI Science and the Paravicini club.
In his final year he was awarded the prestigious Founders’ Medal.

The Paravicini Club 1961

Destined from an early age for the Royal Navy, he went to BRNC Dartmouth in 1961 and
won The Queen’s Telescope in 1962. After various training courses, he joined HMS Ark
Royal in the Far East fleet in 1965 as a supply officer and re-met his Dutch wife-to-be in
Perth, Western Australia having first met her in Rotterdam while a Midshipman in HMS
Belfast in 1962.

The post in Ark Royal became the first of many supply jobs, afloat and ashore, that Charles
held over the course of the next 28 years. Among vessels he served in were HMS Cleopatra,
Whitby, Ajax and Illustrious. He also did two spells in the Ministry of Defence, which he
found “a bit challenging,” one posting at NATO headquarters in Brussels and several jobs in
RN departments in Portsmouth ending there as Flag Officer Surface Flotilla.
Promoted Commander in 1982, he retired from the Royal Navy in April 1993. He wrote
once: “When I look back at my time (in the RN) I never forget the wonderful support I have
had from those officers senior to me and all the wonderful ratings in my departments.”
In retirement Charles first took a job with Brown & Root, an industrial servicing company, as
Naval Adviser. In 1997 he became head of administration and finance at the Royal Sailors’
Rests in Portsmouth. Two years later he moved to Surrey to become Church Administrator at
the 3 Counties Church in Haslemere He retired in 2008 and in 2016-17 moved away from the
area. At the time of his last retirement he remained a Trustee of the Foundation for Relief and
Reconciliation in the Middle East, now known as Mosaic.