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Edward Vernon (Old Grog) (1684–1757) was a English naval officer.
In the War of the Spanish Succession he served at the Battle of Malaga in 1704 and at the Battle of Barcelona in 1705. In the War of Jenkin's Ear in 1739 he commanded a fleet that captured the Spanish colonial possession of Porto Bello (now in Panama), and unsuccessfully attacked Cartagena in Neuva Granada (now Colombia).
His enduring claim to fame was his 1740 order that his sailors' rum should be diluted with water. The rest of the Royal Navy rapidly followed his lead, calling the new drink "grog" after Vernon's nickname.
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