Major Edward Nevil Macready (29 May 1798 – 4 November 1848) was a British Army officer who served in India and during the Waterloo Campaign.

He is quoted from in Henry Havelick's Three Main Military Questions of the Day published in 1867, in order to show repeated cavalry failures in their attempts to break through infantry squares well provided with ammunition in addition to bayonets.

[3] He was at the siege of Asseerghur in Central India during the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818), and afterwards became military secretary to Sir John Wilson, the governor of Ceylon.

[6] Extracts from his journals from his time in India were also published in Henry Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Gazette during the 1850s.

She died on 7 August 1886 and in her will bequeathed £100 to the senior officer other than the colonel-in-chief of the 30th Regiment of Foot for the benefit of the wives, widows and children.