| Honorific Prefix: | Admiral |
| Sir Richard Clayton | |
| Honorific Suffix: | GCB |
| Birth Date: | 9 July 1925 |
| Allegiance: |  United Kingdom |
| Serviceyears: | 1942 - 1981 |
| Rank: | Admiral |
| Commands: | HMS Puma Gibraltar Dockyard HMS Kent HMS Hampshire Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command |
| Battles: | World War II Suez Crisis |
| Awards: | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
Admiral Sir Richard Pilkington Clayton (9 July 1925 - 15 September 1984) was Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command.
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.[1] He also served on HMS Striker during the Suez Crisis in 1956.[1]
He became Commanding Officer of HMS Puma in 1958 and Executive Officer on HMS Lion in 1962.[1] He became Captain of the Gibraltar Dockyard in 1967[2] and then commanded HMS Kent and then HMS Hampshire in the late 1960s.[1] 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.[1]
He was appointed Controller of the Navy in 1975, was promoted to full admiral on 28 March 1978, and became Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command in 1979.[1] He retired in 1981.[1]
In retirement he became a Director at GEC[3] and was a Governor of Rendcomb College.[4] He died in a motor cycling accident in September 1984.[5]
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