Allegiance United Kingdom Died September 15, 1984 Role Royal Navy officer Rank Admiral | Name Richard Clayton Service/branch Royal Navy Years of service 1942 – 1981 Awards Order of the Bath | |
Commands held HMS Puma
Gibraltar Dockyard
HMS Kent
HMS Hampshire
Naval Home Command Battles/wars World War II
Suez Crisis | ||
Battles and wars World War II, Suez Crisis | ||
Admiral Sir Richard Pilkington Clayton GCB (9 July 1925 – 15 September 1984) was Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command.
Naval career
Clayton joined the Royal Navy in 1942 and served as a midshipman on HMS Cumberland until 1943 when he was on various destroyers of the Home Fleet. He also served on HMS Striker during the Suez Crisis in 1956.
He became Commanding Officer of HMS Puma in 1958 and Executive Officer on HMS Lion in 1962. He became Captain of the Gibraltar Dockyard in 1967 and then commanded HMS Kent and then HMS Hampshire in the late 1960s. He was appointed Flag Officer Second Flotilla in 1973 and Senior Naval Member on Directing Staff at the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1975.
He was appointed Controller of the Navy in 1975 and became Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command in 1979: he retired in 1981.
In retirement he became a Director at GEC and was a Governor of Rendcomb College. He died in a motor cycling accident in September 1984.