Admiral Sir William Graham, GCB (10 September 1826 – 31 May 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy.
Graham was appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1849[1] and served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War in 1855 and at the capture of Canton during the Second Opium War in 1857.[2] Promoted to captain in 1863, he was given command of HMS Danae, HMS Immortalité, HMS Resistance, HMS Black Prince and then HMS Aurora.[1] He was appointed Captain of the training school HMS Britannia in 1875, Admiral-Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1882 and Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1886.[1] His last appointment was as President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1888.[3]
He died at 13 Pulteney Street in Bath in 1907.[4]