Rear Admiral Roy Alexander George Clare, CBE, DL (born 30 September 1950)[1] was a Flag Officer in the Royal Navy, Chair of the Chelmsford Cultural Development Trust,[2] trustee of digital inclusion charity Good Things Foundation and of the Heritage Alliance.

[citation needed] Clare joined the Royal Navy as a seaman at HMS Ganges in 1966, aged 15, and rose to become a rear admiral in 1999, serving in a NATO appointment before leaving the service voluntarily in 2000 to take up the role of Director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

[4] He was captain of the Third Destroyer Squadron in 1991–92 and in 1998–99 was commodore of the Britannia Royal Naval College, where he was responsible for preparing new entrant officers for their careers.

[citation needed] Clare was director of the National Maritime Museum between 2000 and 2007,[1] during which time he oversaw a series of exhibitions, including Elizabeth, Skin Deep and Nelson & Napoleon.

He instigated SeaBritain 2005,[4] a partnership with Visit Britain and sixty other organisations to commemorate the bicentenary of Admiral Nelson's victory in the Battle of Trafalgar.

[citation needed] Clare led a re-structuring of collections management, including a partnership project with Chatham Historic Dockyard to display and store models of ships.

[citation needed] Clare was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007 "for services to museums",[9] and in the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greenwich.