Col. Cyril Pelham Foley (1 November 1868 – 9 March 1936) was an English cricketer, military officer and archaeologist.

[7] Foley was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in November 1888 while a student at Cambridge.

[9] He took part in the Jameson Raid of 1895–96 in the Transvaal, and later served with distinction in the Boer War, returning as temporary commander of the 3rd Royal Scots.

[2] During the First World War he commanded the 9th East Lancashire Regiment, serving for nearly two years in the trenches of France and Salonika without leave, and was mentioned in dispatches.

On 30 and 31 August 1909 he explored the Dragon's Shaft together with Clarence Chesney Wilson and Mr Walsh, the civil engineer.