Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham, GCB, GCIE, GCVO, KCSI, KCMG, ISO, PC (18 June 1849 – 31 March 1931) was a British Army officer and courtier.

[3] Bigge was appointed Private Secretary to Queen Victoria in 1895 in succession to Sir Henry Ponsonby and served until her death in January 1901.

[6] Lord Stamfordham was one of those who supported the King's decision to adopt Windsor as the family name because of the keen anti-German feelings during the First World War.

On 17 July 1917, King George V "issued a proclamation declaring, "The Name of Windsor is to be borne by His Royal House and Family and Relinquishing the Use of All German Titles and Dignities".

[7] He persuaded the King to deny asylum to Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were thus forced to remain in Russia and who were murdered by the Bolsheviks.

King George V about to disembark from the Royal Navy flotilla leader HMS Whirlwind at Calais , 5 August 1918. With him are Lieutenant-General George Henry Fowke , the Adjutant-General of the Expeditionary Force; Lord Stamfordham; Lieutenant-General Joseph Asser ; Major Edward Gerald Thompson, the ADC to Field Marshal Haig; Lieutenant Gush RN; and Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer.