Admiral Sir William Alison Dyke Acland, 2nd Baronet, CVO, JP, DL (18 December 1847 – 26 November 1924) was a Royal Navy officer who rose to the rank of Admiral.

[5] After a year he was relieved of the command in the Channel Squadron, and struck his flag on the Magnificent on 5 June 1902.

[6] Four months later, he was appointed Admiral Superintendent of the Gibraltar Dockyard,[7] and was received in audience by King Edward VII on 21 October 1902,[8] before taking up the position later the same month when he hoisted his flag at the receiving ship HMS Cormorant on 30 October.

[9] He lived at the official residence The Mount at Gibraltar, whilst he held the office of Admiral Superintendent from 1902 to 1904.

William Henry Smith and Emily Danvers, Viscountess Hambleden, on 7 July 1887, and had the following children: Acland succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet Acland, of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford on the latter's death on 16 October 1900.