Vice admiral Sir Eric George Anderson Clifford, KCB, CBE (3 September 1900 – 7 September 1964) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff from 1954 to 1957.
[2] Clifford was born in Hove, Sussex, the son of Captain William Trannock Clifford RNR of Poplar and his wife, Clara Strutt, born in Cape Colony.
[1] Like his father, Clifford was educated at the Thames Nautical Training College and aboard HMS Worcester.
[5] After the war Clifford became Chief of Staff in Hong Kong and then was given command of the Navigation School in 1947.
[6] He was made Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff and a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty in 1954; he retired in 1957.