Major-General John Randle Minshull-Ford CB DSO MC (12 May 1881 – 1 April 1948) was a senior British Army officer who briefly served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey before the German Occupation in 1940.

Educated at Twyford School,[1] Minshull-Ford was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1900.

[2] He served in World War I as commander of the 1st Bn of his regiment in the British Expeditionary Force and was wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915.

[2] He continued his war service as a brigade commander, having been promoted to temporary brigadier general in February 1916,[3] in the Home Forces and then later in France.

[2][4] He was briefly Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1940 just before the German Occupation.