Richard Tracey (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Richard Edward Tracey KCB (24 January 1837 – 7 March 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Naval career
Tracey joined the Royal Navy in 1852 and served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War. He took part in the Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863 and the Shimonoseki Campaign in 1864 during the Late Tokugawa Shogunate conflicts. He then set about organizing a naval school at Tsukiji leading to the creation of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1869. He became Commanding Officer of the battleship HMS Iron Duke, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, China, in 1881 and Commanding Officer of the ironclad warship HMS Sultan in 1884. He went on to be Second-in-Command of the Channel Squadron in 1889, Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1892 and President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1897 before retiring in 1902.