Admiral Cecil Minet Staveley, CB, CMG (3 April 1874 – 27 May 1934) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander of the 1st Battle Squadron.

While serving as a lieutenant, he was in September 1902 posted to the Naval School of Telegraphy at HMS Victory, for a signals course,[1] then the following month to the torpedo school at HMS Vernon for a short gunnery and torpedo course.

[2] He was re-assigned to the new armoured cruiser HMS Drake on 13 January 1903, as she took up her first commission in the Channel Fleet.

[3] Staveley served in World War I becoming commanding officer of the cruiser HMS Endymion in January 1916[4] and Chief of Staff, The Nore in April 1918.

[8] Staveley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in December 1902.