General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, KCB, CMG, DSO (9 April 1871 – 19 May 1939) was a British Army officer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who commanded a division in the First World War and in retirement served as Governor of Bermuda.

He requested colonial service, and spent five years in Africa, where he was involved in the creation of the West African Frontier Force and served in a number of campaigns in northern Nigeria.

Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, he was appointed as Deputy Commissioner in Somaliland, where he mounted a series of campaigns against the Dervish State.

[1] Major Cubitt came from a family of rural gentry, and had attended Rugby and Jesus College, Cambridge before entering the British Army in 1853 as an ensign in the 5th Regiment of Foot.

He was sent to West Africa in 1898, and appointed as commander of the artillery in the Northern Nigeria Protectorate on its formation in early 1900, alongside a promotion to captain on 13 February 1900.

[24] A colleague from his early days in the artillery described him as a "perpetual joy to the soldier's world ... because of his picturesque language, which never gave offence because it was so absolutely natural and so aptly fitted the occasion",[16] but under some circumstances it proved less suitable.

[26] Regardless of his personal style, Cubitt was credited by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the commander-in-chief (C-in-C) of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, with achieving the desired results.

[27] Cubitt remained with the 38th Division until the end of the war, and in March 1919 was transferred to command the 3rd Infantry Brigade in the British Army of the Rhine.

[29] Shortly afterwards, in August, he was posted to take over the demobilising 54th (East Anglian) Division in Egypt, remaining with them until October, when the final units sailed for England.

He returned to England in 1924, remaining on half-pay until he took command of the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division, a Territorial Army (TA) formation, in June 1927, taking over from Major General Sir Thomas Marden.