Lieutenant General Richard Friedrich Patrick Felton, CBE is a former British Army officer who served as Director-General of the Defence Safety Authority from 2017 to 2019.

Felton was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Transport on 6 September 1985.

[1] He became Commanding Officer of 9 Regiment Army Air Corps in April 2004, Chief of Staff of 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division in April 2007 and Commander of 4th Mechanized Brigade in January 2009.

[2] It was in this role that he was deployed as Commander of Task Force Helmand in April 2010.

[3] He became Director-General of the Defence Safety Authority in April 2017.