Lieutenant General Sir Edward Peter Strickland, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO (3 August 1869 – 24 June 1951) was a British Army officer who commanded the 1st Division during the First World War.

[3] He served in the First World War as commanding officer (CO) of the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment from 1914 and, promoted in January 1915 to the temporary rank of brigadier general,[4] as commander of the Jullundur Brigade, leading it at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and at the Second Battle of Ypres.

[2] He was promoted in February to brevet colonel[5] and continued his war service as commander of the 98th Infantry Brigade from late 1915 and then, after being promoted to temporary major general in June 1916,[6] was general officer commanding (GOC) of the 1st Division on the Western Front from 1916 until the end of the war, leading it at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and the Battle of Lys two years later.

[7] After the war Strickland became commander of the Western Division of the British Army of the Rhine,[2] and then GOC 6th Division in Ireland,[3] in which role he survived an assassination attempt by the Irish Republican Army in Cork in September 1920 before assuming the additional responsibilities of military governor (under Martial law) for the counties of Munster, Kilkenny and Wexford in January 1921.

Barbara, Lady Strickland, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1923.