Lionel Stopford

Colonel Sir Lionel Arthur Montagu Stopford KCVO CB DL (10 May 1860 – 13 September 1942) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

[2] He fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and took part in the Sikkim Expedition in 1888.

[2] He went on to be Assistant Adjutant-General at the War Office in 1909 and Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1911[4] and was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in January 1913 while serving as commandant.

[3] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in January 1916.

[3] In 1891 he married Mabel Georgina Emily Mackenzie; they had two sons (one of which was General Sir Montagu Stopford).

Group portrait of officers at the British Staff College at Camberley , England, 1906. Colonel Lionel Stopford is in the front row, fifth from the right.