Frederick Warden

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Rear-Admiral Frederick Warden CB (18 November 1807 – 11 November 1869) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron. He joined as a cadet in 1820 and served off the coast of Syria during the Oriental Crisis of 1840. He was promoted to captain in 1845.

Warden commanded HMS Retribution in 1850, then HMS Ajax, which carried out as a mobile maritime battery in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War. He later commanded HMS Hibernia and then HMS Redpole. In 1867 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron, and in December 1868 he became Commander-in-Chief at Queenstown. He arrived from Lisbon to take command at Queenstown aboard HMS Helicon, the despatch vessel, on 28 December 1868. He died in office in Queenstown on 11 November 1869. He lived at Barham Lodge in Weybridge.