Richard Clayton

Admiral Sir Richard Pilkington Clayton (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. and then commanded HMS Kent and then HMS Hampshire in the late 1960s. and became Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command in 1979. and was a Governor of Rendcomb College. He died in a motor cycling accident in September 1984.

Honours

Clayton was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1978 New Year Honours, and promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order (GCB) in the 1980 Birthday Honours.