Major-General Sir Edward Yewd Brabant, KCB, CMG (31 May 1839 – 13 December 1914) was a British military commander in colonial South Africa.

[2] Captain Brabant oversaw the Ndebele employed by the British South Africa Company forces in Fort Victoria, Matabeleland (now Masvingo, Zimbabwe).

The other column scouts were: Bob Bain (Canadian), Frederick Russell Burnham (American), Jack Carruthers, Art Cummings, Duncan Dollar, Pearl "Pete" Ingram (American), Harry Lloyd, Texas Long, Billy Lynch, Andrew Main, and Billy Reed.

[3] His units operated round the Queenstown/Dordrecht area and moved north to hold the Jammersburg Drift at Wepener, which they did under appalling rain and cold against a superior Boer force led by Christiaan De Wet.

[citation needed] His son, Lieutenant Arthur Edward Brabant, served with the Imperial Light Horse during the Second Boer War.