General Sir Richard Harrison GCB CMG KStJ DL (26 May 1837 – 25 September 1931[1]) was a British Army officer and engineer.

Born in Essex, he was the second son of Benjamin John Harrison and his wife Emily, daughter of Richard Hall.

[3] When in 1879 the Anglo-Zulu War broke out, Harrison was attached to the troops in the Cape Colony and fought in the Battle of Ulundi.

[3] He was promoted to major general in 1888 and was appointed a governor of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in the subsequent year[3] on whose occasion Harrison was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

[10] Harrison was nominated Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Engineers on the death of his predecessor in March 1903[11] and was further honoured with appointment as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in June.