General Sir Cecil Francis Romer, GCB, KBE, CMG (14 November 1869 – 1 October 1962) was a British Army general who reached high command during the 1920s.

[2] Romer was born in Kensington, London, the son of Lord Justice Robert Romer and Betty Lemon, daughter of Mark Lemon, editor of Punch.

He served in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902, was wounded in early 1900,[5] and received the brevet rank of major on 29 November 1900.

[6] During the First World War, Romer, promoted to temporary colonel in November 1914,[9] fought on the Western Front.

[11][12] Romer, promoted in January 1919 to substantive major general,[13] became GOC 1st Division at Aldershot in 1926.