Major General Peter Gilchrist, CB (born 28 February 1952) is a retired senior British Army officer who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 2000 to 2004.

Educated at Marlborough College, Gilchrist was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1973.

[1] He became commanding officer of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment in 1993, Deputy Director of Ordnance in 1996 and Programme Director for Armoured Systems in 1998.

[2] He went on to be an executive director at the Defence Procurement Agency and Master-General of the Ordnance in 2000.

[3] He was deployed to Afghanistan as Deputy Commander at Combined Forces Command in 2004,[4] and then became Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 2006.