Richard Tracey

Admiral Sir Richard Edward Tracey (24 January 1837 – 7 March 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Naval career Tracey joined the Royal Navy in 1852 and served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War. He took part in the Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863 and the Shimonoseki Campaign in 1864 during the Late Tokugawa Shogunate conflicts.

At the request of the Bakamatsu Government and on the recommendation of the British Consul, Sir Harry Smith Parkes and Ernest Satow, Tracey was invited by them to assist in the organization of a naval training school at Tsukiji, Tokyo an institution that after the Meiji Restoration became the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy. Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1892 and President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1897 He was placed on the retired list 24 January 1902.

He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.