Colonel Sir Joseph William Weld, OBE, TD (1909-1992), was Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, a British army officer and landowner.

He served as adjutant to Lord Louis Montbatten and in that connection made several trips as Liaison officer between the South East Asia Command and the War Cabinet.

Following D-Day, he escorted Edwina Mountbatten on her visit to France to inspect field hospitals behind the advancing allied armies.

Although General Eisenhower had flown them across the English Channel in his Flying Fortress, Lady Mountbatten insisted on getting close to the front line.

[6] As a landowner, he divested some of the Weld family's valuable art collection to finance improvements to farms on his estate.