General Sir Richard Brooking Trant, KCB, DL (30 March 1928 – 3 October 2007) was an officer in the British Army.

[1] He returned to Europe in 1957, joining A Battery (The Chestnut Troop) of the 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, serving with the British Army of the Rhine.

[1] He was Deputy Military Secretary in the Ministry of Defence for two-year before being promoted to Major General and appointed Command Land Forces in Northern Ireland, Operation Banner, in 1977.

[1] He was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1982, and became GOC South East District, taking charge of the British Army's rapid reaction forces for operations outside the NATO area shortly before Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands.

[1] He became a senior military adviser to Belfast aircraft manufacturer Short Brothers, later joining the boards of Hunting Engineering and Wilson Hogg Robinson.