GROVE Eric

Naval Historian

United Kingdom

Contemporary Period BIOGRAPHY

After studying at Aberdeen University and Kings College, London Eric Grove became a civilian

lecturer at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1971 and left at the end of 1984 as Deputy Head of

Strategic Studies.

After a short period with the London based Council for Arms Control he became a self employed

strategic analyst and defence consultant, teaching at The Royal Naval College Greenwich and the

University of Cambridge and working with the Foundation for International Security. Under the latter’s

auspices in 1988, he founded the Russia-UK-US naval discussions and confidence building talks that

became official and, with the addition of France, became FRUKUS.

In 1993 he joined the University of Hull where he became Reader in Politics and International

Studies and Director of the Centre for Security Studies.

In 2005 Dr Grove moved to the University of Salford where he became Professor of Naval

History and Director of the Centre for International Security and War Studies. In 2013 he moved to

Liverpool Hope University as Professor of Naval History and Senior Fellow in the Centre for Applied

Research in Security Innovation.

He retired from Hope in 2015 and is now an independent naval historian, maritime strategist

and international security analyst as well as being closely involved in the establishment and growth of

Maritime History North.

BIBLIOGRAPHY His many books include:

• Vanguard to Trident (the standard work on post-1945 British naval policy);

• The Future of Sea Power;

• Sea Battles in Close-Up; Fleet to Fleet Encounters;

• The Price of Disobedience(a study of the Battle of the River Plate)

• The Royal Navy Since 1815’.

He was a co-author of the original edition of the official publication

• ‘BR1806, The Fundamentals of British Maritime Doctrine.