Major-general (substantive) Lieutenant-general Richard Thomas Glyn CB CMG (23 December 1831 – 21 November 1900)[1] was a British Army officer.

Whilst Glyn was accompanying Lieutenant-General Lord Chelmsford on a reconnaissance, the column's camp was attacked and almost wiped out in the Battle of Isandlwana.

Though suffering from depression and a mental breakdown he made orders to recover the missing Queen's Colour of the 1st Battalion and to bury the bodies of his men.

He was promoted to general rank before his retirement, after which he served in the ceremonial role of colonel of the regiment of the South Wales Borderers until his death.

[12][2] The battalion served in the 9th Cape Frontier War of 1877–78, during which Glyn commanded the British troops in Transkei against the Xhosa people.

Glyn accompanied Chelmsford on a reconnaissance in force to Mangeni on the morning of 22 January, leaving the 1st Battalion's Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Pulleine in command of the camp.

During Glyn's absence, a large Zulu force attacked the camp, wiping out the command and killing Pulleine and Durnford in the Battle of Isandlwana.

Glyn and Chelmsford's force passed through the battlefield later that day on the way to Rorke's Drift, where a small British garrison had successfully fought off a Zulu attack.

[18] Glyn's post-battle report on Isandlwana was emotional and, because there were so few British survivors, is based partly on his own speculation.

It was the first official record of the actions of Lieutenants Teignmouth Melvill and Nevill Coghill, who had made a fatal attempt to save the Queen's Colour of the 1st Battalion of the 24th Regiment.

Glyn maintained a general silence on the matter, noting that Chelmsford knew better than him what his orders were and that it was his duty to carry them out.

Glyn's wife was indignant at his treatment and robustly defended him, which forced Chelmsford's staff to cease this line of action.

[34] Glyn died at his home, Chequers, in Stratfield Saye, Hampshire, on 21 November 1900,[35] aged 68, not long after witnessing his regiment depart for Southern Africa for service in the Second Boer War.

[29] A hoof from his horse, Yellow Rose, serves as an ash tray in the officers' dining room of the Royal Welsh, the successor of the South Wales Borderers.