Major General Sir Gerald Charles Kitson KCVO CB CMG (6 October 1856 – 3 March 1950) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

The youngest son of the Rev James Buller Kitson, Gerald was educated at Winchester College and Royal Military College Sandhurst, Gerald Kitson was commissioned into the 1st Regiment of Foot in 1875 and transferred to the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1876.

[1] After serving as aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India from 1879 and then as aide-de-camp to the General Officer Commanding Western District from 1884,[1] he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General in Meerut in 1890, Assistant Adjutant-General in Ambala in 1892 and Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston in 1896.

He commanded the 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division in India from 1912, through the early years of the Great War, until 1916[2] and retired in 1918.

[6] In 1939 he gave his support to a campaign to stop the abolition of the kilt in the British Army.