Navy. His duties have occasionally, and now for more than half a century, been divided among the Commissioners of the Board of Admiralty, but there is nothing to prevent a Lord High Admiral being again appointed. The Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV. (1827-28), was the last Lord High Admiral.
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Lord High Admiral, the highest combined administrative and judicial officer in the British