General Sir Edmund George Barrow, GCB, KCMG (28 January 1852 – 3 January 1934) was a senior British Army officer who served as Military Secretary to the India Office from 1914 to 1917.

[4] He was made Commanding Officer of the Hong Kong Regiment in 1892,[4] and took part in the Tirah Expedition to the North West Frontier of India in 1897.

He was appointed deputy adjutant-general, Bengal Command, on 1 April 1900,[5] but only three months later, in July 1900 was transferred as Chief of Staff for the China Expeditionary Force in response to the Boxer Rebellion,[4] after which he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

[6] He was appointed Secretary to the Military Department of the Government of India in November 1901, with the temporary rank of Major general whilst so employed,[7] and General Officer Commanding 1st (Peshawar) Division in India in 1904.

[4] Barrow served in the First World War as Military Secretary to the India Office from 1914.