Peter Cazalet

Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Grenville Lyon Cazalet KBE CB DSO DSC (29 July 1899 – 17 February 1982) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet.

Naval career Cazalet joined the Royal Navy in 1917 and served as a midshipman in the battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal during World War I. He also served in World War II and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in July 1940.

He became Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Durban in the Eastern Fleet in 1941 and saw action during the fall of Singapore. He continued his war service as Commander of the 23rd Destroyer Flotilla from 1944. and deputy chairman of BP, where he was involved in negotiations relating to a trans-Atlantic pipeline.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1952 New Year Honours and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1955 Birthday Honours.