Colonel Sir Sidney Cornwallis Peel, 1st Baronet, CB, DSO, TD (1870–1938), was a British Army officer, barrister and financier.
In 1900, he served in the Boer War as a trooper in the Oxfordshire Imperial Yeomanry, for which bestowed the Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps.
[1] The Foreign Officer took him away from active service to be among its financial crisis advisors in November 1917, as such in 1919 he attended the Peace Conference, scrutinising the Bulgarian settlement.
[1] He was appointed to the inaugurate Oxford University Statutory Commission, resigning from that the next year to be British Plenipotentiary to the Tariff Conference in China 1925–1926.
He was appointed to the Municipal Banks Committee and given other government work; he was some time honorary treasurer of the National Trust.
[1] He was a Colonel in the British Army, still in the official Parliamentary report (Hansard) in 1920 holding command of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry.