Major General Edward Barrington de Fonblanque CB CBE DSO ADC (29 May 1895 – 17 September 1981) was a British Army officer of the First World War and Second World War, and later served as aide-de-camp to King George VI.

[2] His elder brother, Philip de Fonblanque (1885–1940), was also an officer in the British Army.

From 1921 to 1925 he was an instructor at the Army School of Equitation at Weedon, and from 1923 to 1931 he was captain of the Royal Horse Artillery.

In 1947, he served as chief administrative of the Allied Commission in Germany and as aide-de-camp to George VI.

[1] After de Fonblanque's retirement from active duty in 1951, he served in British Malaya as assistant commissioner of civil defence, and as inspector-general of the Federal Home Guard from 1952 to 1958.