Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Newdigate Newdegate, KCB (15 June 1825 – 1 August 1902) was a British Army officer.

Newdegate was born at Astley Castle, Warwickshire, on 15 June 1825, the fourth son of Francis Newdigate, of Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, by Lady Barbara Maria Legge (1791–1840), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Dartmouth.

For his services in the war, he was mentioned in despatches, received a brevet promotion to major, the Crimea Medal with three clasps, the Turkish Crimean War medal, and was awarded the knighthood of the French Legion d'Honneur and the fifth class of the Order of Medjidie.

From 1865 to 1870 he was assistant adjutant general at Aldershot, and from 1873 to 1877 he commanded first the Carlisle Regimental district, then the Rifle Depot at Winchester.

[2] She wrote historical works: Gossip from a Muniment Room (1897) on Anne and Mary Fitton; The Cheverels of Cheverel Manor (1898), based on correspondence of Roger Newdigate and his wife, using the names under which they appear in George Eliot's Mr. Gilfil's Love Story; and Cavalier and Puritan (1901) based on the papers of Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet.