Brigadier Edward Joseph Todhunter TD DL (1900–1976) was a British soldier and High Sheriff of Essex.

Ted Todhunter was born on his family's estate of Kingsmoor House and Stewards farm in Great Parndon, Essex.

During the Second World War, he served as a brigadier with the Royal Horse Artillery and was captured along with General Gambier-Parry by Italian forces at Mechili in Cyrenaica, North Africa in April 1941.

He was initially taken to the same barracks as Major-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC in Tripoli[1] after which he was taken by ship to Naples and then on to the Villa Orsini near Sulmona.

[5] He joined the Italian partisans known as the Garibaldi Brigade Romagna under the leadership of Libero Riccardo Fedel, who during the winter of 1943/4 helped dozens of allied prisoners to escape.