General Sir Edward Stanton KCB KCMG (19 February 1827 – 24 June 1907) was a British Army officer and diplomat.

[7] Stanton was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 19 December 1844.

[3] From 1856 to 1857, he served on the boundary commission that determined the Russo-Turkish borders.

[13] In 1862, Edward Stanton married Margarette Constance Starkey.

[13] His son Colonel Edward Alexander Stanton (1867–1947) served in Egypt at Omdurman, was Governor of Khartoum from 1900 to 1908, and military governor of Haifa (the Phoenicia Division of Palestine) from 1918 to 1920.