Major-General Sir John Frederick Maurice KCB (24 May 1841 – 12 January 1912) was a senior British Army officer, chiefly remembered for his military writings.

[1][5] Maurice served as private secretary to Sir Garnet Wolseley in the Ashanti Campaign of 1873–1874; in the Zulu War in 1879; was deputy assistant adjutant general of the Egyptian expedition in 1882; and was brevetted colonel in 1885.

In 1885–1892 he was professor of military history at the Staff College, Camberley, and in 1895 was promoted to major general.

Later in his career he was commander of the Woolwich District until September 1902,[6] and he retired from the army in January 1903.

[7] In 1905, Maurice was part of a team which went to Berlin to negotiate with the Germans on the problems of the Navy estimates and the escalating threat posed to the Empire.