David Clutterbuck

Vice Admiral Sir David Granville Clutterbuck KBE CB (25 January 1913 – 13 December 2008) was a Royal Navy officer who became NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1966.

Naval career
Educated at the HMS Conway, Clutterbuck joined the Royal Navy in 1929. He served in World War II on the cruiser HMS Ajax, seeing action in the Eastern Mediterranean; escorting several Malta relief convoys, landing (and then evacuating) allied troops from Greece, and being present at the Battle of Cape Matapan. His next ship was the heavy cruiser HMS Newfoundland taking part in the invasion of Sicily. After the War he commanded the destroyers HMS Sluys and HMS Cadiz. He was appointed naval attaché in Bonn in 1954, Captain of the cruiser HMS Blake in 1960 and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet in 1963. He went on to be Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1966 and retired in 1968.

Civilian life
After retiring from military life, Sir David Clutterbuck became the first Director General of the Association of MBAs in 1969 (which carried the name Business Graduates Association until 1987).

Family
In 1937 he married Rose Mere Vaile; they had two daughters.