Edward Northey (British Army officer)

Major General Sir Edward Northey GCMG, CB
Governor of Kenya
In office 1919–1922
Preceded by	Charles Calvert Bowring
Succeeded by	Robert Coryndon
High Commissioner of Zanzibar
In office 1922–1924
Personal details
Born	May 1868
Died	December 1953 (aged 85)
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Companion of the Order of the Bath
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1888 to 1926
Rank	Major-General
Commands	Nyasa-Rhodesia Field Force 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division
Battles/wars	Second Boer War First World War • Western Front • East African Campaign

Major General Sir Edward Northey GCMG, CB (May 1868 – December 1953) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War who commanded a brigade on the Western Front until wounded in 1915. Returning to service in 1916, Northey took command of a colonial force in Nyasaland in the East African Campaign, later becoming Governor of Kenya. He later served as a general of Territorial forces and retired in 1926.

Edward Northey was born in 1868 and educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, being commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1888. He served in expeditions to Hazara and the Miranzai Valley in 1891 and one to Isazai the following year. In 1899, Northey took part in the Second Boer War, remaining in the theatre until 1902.

When the First World War broke out in 1914, Northey was a lieutenant colonel in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and served with the regiment on the Western Front during the first year of the war. In March 1915, Northey was promoted to brigadier-general and took over the 15th Infantry Brigade but was seriously wounded during the Second Battle of Ypres. The date is unclear, but Northey was reportedly surveying the site of a new communication trench when he was struck in the thigh by shrapnel.

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