David Hart Dyke
| David Hart Dyke | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 October 1938 Havant, Hampshire, England |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch | Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1959–1990 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | |
| Commands held | HMS Coventry |
| Battles/wars | Falklands War |
| Awards |
Commander of the Order of the British Empire Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order |
| Spouse(s) | Diana Margaret Luce (m. 1967) |
| Relations | Miranda Hart (daughter) |
| Other work | Clerk and Chief Executive of the Worshipful Company of Skinners |
Captain David Hart Dyke CBE, LVO, ADC (born 3 October 1938) is a retired Royal Navy officer, former aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, and former commanding officer of HMS Coventry, which was sunk during the Falklands War.
Hart Dyke, a member of the Hart Dyke family, is one of four children born to the Reverend Eric Hart Dyke (1906–1971) and Mary Alexander (1915–2010). He has two sisters, Jane (b. 1936) and Sarah (b. 1946), and had a twin brother Robert, who was killed in a car crash in 1963. He was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent. His father served as a commander in the Royal Navy, before being ordained in 1953.
Hart Dyke was conscripted for National Service in 1959, and served as a midshipman in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He then joined the Royal Navy and was trained at the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, and served aboard the frigate Eastbourne, based in the Far East and Persian Gulf. He was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant on 1 September 1961, and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 January 1962, to command a Gay-class fast patrol boat based at Plymouth. He served aboard the Ton-class minesweeper Lanton during the Indonesian Confrontation in 1963, then as navigating officer aboard the frigates Palliser on fishery protection duties in 1963–1965, Gurkha in the Persian Gulf, 1965–1966, and Tenby in the Dartmouth Training Squadron, 1966–1968, before being appointed an instructor at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, where he was promoted to lieutenant commander on 1 January 1970. He attended a year-long staff course before being promoted to commander on 30 June 1974 and appointed first lieutenant and executive officer of the guided missile destroyer Hampshire. From 1976 he served on the staff of the Royal Naval Staff College, then from 1978 as the commander of the Royal Yacht Britannia. He was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (4th class) (MVO) on 1 January 1980.
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