Royce McGlashen

Royce Peter McGlashen MBE (born 1949) is a New Zealand ceramicist.

McGlashen was born in Nelson in 1949, and was educated at Waimea College.

In 1966, he began a five-year apprenticeship with Jack Laird at Waimea Pottery. He moved to Australia where he worked at Montville Pottery in Queensland. In 1974, he travelled to South Africa and then on to England, working at Le Dieu Pottery in Norwich. He returned to New Zealand in 1975. In 1989, he began designing for Temuka Pottery.

In 1983 and 1987, he won Merit Awards at the Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Awards. In the 1989 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to pottery.