Major General Cecil Percival Heywood, CB CMG DSO (17 May 1880 – 20 October 1936) was a British Army officer who commanded 3rd Division.

He fought in the Second Boer War,[2] leaving Southampton for South Africa on the SS Canada in early February 1900.

[3] Following the war, he became adjutant of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards in 1904 before undertaking a tour with the Egyptian Army which involved him in operations in Southern Kurdufan in Sudan in 1908.

[5] In the following year he served as a staff officer in the Russian Civil War.

[5] He was appointed Commander of the Coldstream Guards and Regimental District in 1927, Director of Military Training in India in 1930 and Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1934.