Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Wilfrid Stanyforth CB TD DL JP (born Greenwood; 28 June 1861 – 28 January 1939) was a Yorkshire land owner, magistrate and British Army Territorial officer who commanded the Yorkshire Hussars during World War I.

[1] He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1924 Birthday Honours for services to agriculture.

His father built Swarcliffe Hall where the family resided, and his grandfather Frederick Greenwood was a noted magistrate in West Yorkshire.

[4] He was a member of the West Riding Territorial Association and served in the Yorkshire Hussars.

Stanyforth married his cousin Mary Evelyn Barnadiston in 1888[6] and had three children: two daughters, Madge and Monica, who was raised in Paris, and a son, Ronald Thomas Stanyforth, who would go on to become captain of the England cricket team.