Lieutenant General Sir Philip Charles Cornwallis Trousdell KBE, CB (born 13 August 1948) is a retired senior British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland and Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

[2] He was promoted to lieutenant on 2 February 1970,[3] Between 1968 and 1974, he served in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Libya, Bahrain, Oman and Northern Ireland.

He was posted to the Ministry of Defence from November 1993 until January 1997 as Director of Public Relations (Army).

[1] On 13 January 2003, he was promoted to lieutenant-general and appointed General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland.

[16] Trousdell was appointed Commander of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours.

[17] In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).

[18] He held the honorary position of Colonel of The Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment from 27 October 1993[19] to 1 July 2003.