Rear-Admiral Sir David William Haslam KBE CB (26 June 1923 – 4 August 2009) was a Royal Navy officer. David Haslam was born in Derby and educated at Ashe Preparatory School, Etwall and, from 1936, at Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire (from 1939 the school was evacuated to Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales). He was in command of Survey Motor Launch 325 in 1947 and then spent two years on exchange service with the Royal Australian Navy from 1947 to 1949. This was followed by service in the surveying vessel HMS Scott from 1949 to 1951 and her sister ship HMS Dalrymple 1951–53.