Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Gilbert John Acland-Troyte, CMG, DSO, JP (4 September 1876 – 27 April 1964[1]) of Huntsham Court, near Tiverton, Devon, was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.

[9] He was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General in the beginning of 1915[10] and was promoted to major in September.

[13] After the war he received the French Croix de Guerre in January 1919[14] and retired as brevet lieutenant-colonel a few months later.

[16] Acland-Troyte contested unsuccessfully the parliamentary seat of Tiverton in a by-election in 1923 and in the following general election.

[1] Following his retirement from politics he was knighted[17] and in 1946 accepted the office of Master of the Tiverton Foxhounds which he fulfilled until 1950.