Career
Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Dobson became Commanding Officer of the frigate HMS Amazon in 1975. A naval aviator, he became naval and air attaché in Athens in 1979 and Senior Naval Officer on the Falkland Islands in 1982. He went on to be Captain of the destroyer HMS Southampton in 1983 and then Captain of the Fleet and, following his promotion to Rear Admiral, became Naval Secretary in 1988.
He retired in 1991 and was President of the Union Jack Club.
