Colonel Sir Arthur Edward Erskine GCVO DSO (1 September 1881 – 24 July 1963) was a British soldier and courtier.

[citation needed] Erskine fought in the First World War, where he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the DSO in 1916.

[11] Erskine married Rosemary Freda, daughter of Brigadier-General Edward William David Baird, in 1921.

They had three sons,[citation needed] of whom the youngest was the polar explorer Angus Erskine.

Their son, Major James Malcolm Kenneth Erskine MBE, attended Wellington College, Berkshire and then became an officer in the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).