Career
Born in Saint-Malo, France, Cecil Robert Peter Charles Branson grew up speaking fluent French and English. He had the rare distinction of being twice torpedoed while under training with the Royal Navy. In 1956, he was given command of the anti-submarine frigate HMS Roebuck and later given command of HMS Rooke, the naval base at Gibraltar.
He retired from the Navy in 1977.
Peter Branson married Sonia Moss in 1945. She died in 2010. They had one child, a daughter.
