Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Hayden Owen Lane-Poole KBE, CB (1 April 1883 – 25 March 1971) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy.
[1] Educated at Bedford School, Lane-Poole joined the Royal Navy on 15 January 1898 as a Cadet.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for valuable services to mine laying operations during the First World War.
[2] He served aboard HMS Hood in 1922 and was promoted to captain on 30 June 1923.
During the Second World War he came out of retirement and served as commodore of convoys and director of demagnetization.