Major Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens CMG MC* (2 February 1897 – 28 November 1968) was a British soldier, businessman and patron of the arts, and a leading advocate of European co-operation.

Beddington-Behrens was born in Paris in 1897, where his father, Walter Behrens, was President of the British Chamber of Commerce.

[2] After the war, he studied at Christ Church, Oxford and took a PhD in economics at the University of London, before becoming one of the British representatives at the League of Nations.

When World War II broke out, Beddington-Behrens was called up from the Territorial Army, and served in Belgium prior to Dunkirk, and later as a staff officer at Coleshill House.

[8] Among his notable acquisitions were a 1965 cast of the 1913 sculpture The Dancer by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska[9] and The Crab by Oskar Kokoschka[10] both now in the Tate collection.