Admiral Sir Michael Henry Gordon Layard, KCB, CBE (born 3 January 1936) is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord from 1992 to 1995.
[1] He trained as a fighter pilot and in 1970 he took command of 899 Naval Air Squadron flying Sea Vixens.
[2] During the Falklands War he was Senior Naval Officer in the MV Atlantic Conveyor,[1] which was sunk by two exocet missiles.
[3] Layard became Commander of RNAS Culdrose in 1982, Captain of the destroyer HMS Cardiff in 1984 and Director Naval Warfare (Air) at the Ministry of Defence in 1985.
[1] In retirement Layard became a Trustee of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, and a Governor of Pangbourne College.