Lieutenant General Sir Frederick William Stopford, KCB, KCMG, KCVO (2 February 1854 – 4 May 1929) was a British Army officer, best remembered for commanding the landing at Suvla Bay in August 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign, where he failed to order an aggressive exploitation of the initially successful landings.

[2] He was appointed aide-de-camp to Sir John Adye, chief of staff for the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, and took part in the Battle of Tel el-Kebir in 1882.

[3] Stopford took part in the Second Boer War as military secretary to General Sir Redvers Buller and later military secretary to the general officer commanding Natal,[3] for which he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in November 1900.

[8] On 5 August 1914, a day after the British entry into World War I, he was appointed GOC First Army,[9] part of Home Forces, a position he held until he took command of IX Corps the following year.

[10] As GOC of IX Corps, Stopford was blamed for the failure to attack following the landing at Suvla Bay in August 1915, during the Gallipoli campaign.