Lionel Stopford

Colonel Sir Lionel Arthur Montagu Stopford (10 May 1860 – 13 September 1942) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst. Military career Son of Vice-Admiral The Hon. Sir Montagu Stopford, Lionel Stopford was commissioned into the Clare Militia and then transferred to the Irish Guards. He fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and took part in the Sikkim Expedition in 1888. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General in Ireland in 1898, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at Army Headquarters in 1904 and Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at the Staff College, Camberley in 1905. He went on to be Assistant Adjutant-General at the War Office in 1909 and Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1911 before serving in World War I as a Brigade Commander until 1916 when he returned to his post as Commandant at Sandhurst. In retirement he was Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.