Royal Bertrand Lord (19 September 1899 – 21 October 1963) was a United States Army general who served in World War II.

A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, ranked 4th in the class of 1923, Lord served as an instructor in tactics at West Point, and on construction projects including flood control on the Mississippi River and the Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project in Maine.

During World War II he was the chief of staff of the Communications Zone in the European Theater of Operations, United States Army.

In 1931, he helped Grover Whalen organize the Army–Navy Game, which was held at Yankee Stadium that year for the benefit of the unemployed, at the behest of President Herbert Hoover.

[4] He served in the office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington, DC, and then in Eastport, Maine,[5] where he worked on the Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project.

[5] From December 1940 to August 1941 he served as assistant director of the Bureau of Public Relations at the War Department in Washington, DC, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the wartime Army of the United States on 26 March 1941.

[7] In February 1943, Lord was transferred to the European Theater of Operations, United States Army (ETOUSA), where he served on the staff of Major General John C. H. Lee's Services of Supply (SOS).

He was replaced by Lord, who became both Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of SOS,[10] and was promoted to brigadier general on 22 February 1944.

[15][16] Relations between Lee and Crawford were never good, so Lord personally handled most of the communication with Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF).

[18] American logistics in the Northern France campaign suffered from supply shortages in the aftermath of the breakout from Normandy and the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine, and resulted in clashes between Lord and Brigadier General Raymond G. Moses, the assistant chief of staff for logistics (G-4) of the 12th Army Group.

[4][24] Lord became the chairman of the board and president of the Worldwide Development Corporation in New York City, and supervised large-scale housing projects in Argentina, and built the La Quinta Country Club in California.

[4] He served as a director of US Finishing Company, the Triplex Corporation of America, Voss Oil, ExComm List Industries, Glen Alden and Aconic Mining.

He died suddenly of a heart attack in his car there on 21 October 1963, and was interred in the Chapel of the Chimes, Alameda County, California.