Roy Clare, CBE

Career: jr seaman 1966, midshipman 1970; chief mate yacht 'Adventure' Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race 1973-74; co: HMS Bronington 1980-81 (second in command 1975-77), HMS Birmingham 1987-89, HMS York and 3 Destroyer Sqdn 1991-92, HMS Invincible 1996-97, BRNC 1998-99 (fndr Britannia Museum, led opening of BRNC to paying visitors 1998); Rear Adm (NATO appt) 1999-2000, dir Nat Maritime Museum 2000-07, chief exec Museums, Libraries and Archives Cncl 2007-11 (memb Bd 2006-07), dir Auckland War Meml Museum NZ 2011-; memb Bd Creative and Cultural Skills Sector Skills Cncl 2005-07, memb Bd Qualifications and Curriculum Devpt Agency 2009-11; vice-pres Bronington Tst 1999-2002 (tstee 1989-99), pres Midland Naval Offrs Assoc 2000-02; fndr Britannia Museum, tstee Naval Review 1999-2011, tstee Britannia Assoc 2001-04; memb Assembly Univ of Greenwich 2001-07, memb Greenwich Forum 2001-07; Hon DLitt Univ of Greenwich 2007; Sword of Honour 1972, Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal 1977, GSM 1977 and 1989; Freeman: City of London 2001, Worshipful Co of Shipwrights 2002, Worshipful Co of Clockmakers 2004; CCMI 2001, FRSA 2005-08

Books and Publications: Bronington - The Last of Britain's Wooden Walls (ed, 1996)