Henry Leach
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Conyers Leach, GCB, DL (18 November 1923 – 26 April 2011) was a Royal Navy officer. He served in World War II and then commanded a destroyer and an aircraft carrier before achieving higher command in the Navy. He was the First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff in the early 1980s, the time of the Falklands War. He was instrumental in convincing the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that retaking the Falkland Islands from Argentina was feasible. On account of his determination in the Navy's ability to retake the Falklands, Andrew Marr referred to Leach as Thatcher's "Knight in Shining Gold Braid".
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