Major-General Alexander Patrick Drummond Telfer-Smollett CB CBE DSO MC DL (12 August 1884 – 1954) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.

Telfer-Smollett entered and later graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry in 1904.

[2] After serving in World War I, during which he was awarded the Military Cross,[1] and ultimately leading his regiment to victory at the Battle of Cambrai in 1918,[3] he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1919, and then saw service with the North Russia Relief Force in the Russian Civil War.

[1] Remaining in the army during the interwar period, "Alec" Telfer-Smollett, by now a brevet lieutenant colonel, attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1920 to 1921, and then served at the War Office from 1925 to 1929, which was followed by being a Senior Staff Officer to the Inspector-General of the West African Frontier Force until 1930.

[5] He went on to be Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1939 and to serve as a District Commander in the UK during World War II from 1940, the year where his son was killed in action, until his retirement in 1942.