Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet KCB VD JP (4 December 1862 – 7 July 1942) was a British sailor, yachting enthusiast and public official.

He was the son of heiress Mary Emily Baring and Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 11th Baronet, a Captain in the Royal Horse Guards.

[1] In 1864, his father divorced his mother after alleging she committed adultery with Lt.-Col. Henry Armitage of the Coldstream Guards.

From his father's second marriage, he had a younger half-sister, Bridget Henrietta Frances Williams-Bulkeley (who married Benjamin Seymour Guinness and was the mother of Gp.

[2] While attending Eton, he succeeded his father as the 12th Baronet Williams, of Penrhyn, County Caernarvon on 28 January 1884.

Sir Richard was also a Younger Brethren of Trinity House,[2] and in 1914, he commanded the Royal Naval Depot at the Crystal Palace, London.