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Richard Frank Cheadle CB, DL (born 27 January 1950) is a former

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officer who went on to be

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Naval career

Cheadle served as director of nuclear propulsion at the

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and then as commander of HM Naval Base Devonport. Promoted to rear admiral, he was appointed chief of staff to the Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command in 2003. He was appointed

as well as an executive director of the

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in December 2003. By the following year he was still Controller of the Navy but also director, land & maritime. He retired from the navy in 2006 and became a director at

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Post-naval career

Cheadle is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Devon. Cheadle is also a councillor for the Buckland Monachorum ward of

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. Cheadle sits as an independent.

References

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