Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Doveton Minet Staveley GCB, DL (10 November 1928 – 13 October 1997) was a Royal Navy officer.

In that role he fought hard for a fleet large enough to meet NATO commitments.

[1] He was a grandson of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee, a naval commander in the First World War.

[1] He served on the destroyer HMS Cavalier from November 1957, and having been promoted to lieutenant commander on 1 September 1958,[4] he was present at the hydrogen bomb tests on Kiritimati.

[8] Advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1984 Birthday Honours,[11] he became First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff on 2 August 1985.

[13] He was also a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman of the Shipwrights' Company and a younger brother of Trinity House.