Reginald Byng Stephens

Sir Reginald Byng Stephens
Born	10 October 1869
Died	6 April 1955 (age 85)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1890–1931
Rank	General
Commands held	25th Infantry Brigade 5th Division X Corps RMC Sandhurst 4th Division Territorial Army
Battles/wars	Second Matabele War Second Boer War First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Other work	Deputy Lieutenant, Gloucestershire

General Sir Reginald Byng Stephens KCB CMG DL (10 October 1869 – 6 April 1955) was a British Army general of the First World War and later Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1919 to 1923, Major-General commanding the 4th Division, 1923 to 1926, and finally Director-General of the Territorial Army, 1927 to 1931.

The son of Captain Frederick Stephens JP, late the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards, of Bentworth Lodge, Alton, Hampshire, by his marriage on 13 January 1869 to Cecilia Mary, daughter of Captain H. Byng RN, of Quendon Hall, Essex, Stephens was educated at Winchester College. His sister, Mabel, was born and died in 1870, and he also had five younger brothers, Berkeley, Lionel, Gerald Edmund, Evelyn Edward, and Frederick Geoffrey, and a second sister, Cicely Mary.

Stephens trained at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade as a Second Lieutenant on 9 April 1890. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1892 and Captain in 1897. He served in Matabeleland in the Second Matabele War in 1896-1897 and in the Nile Expedition of 1898, then in the Second Boer War of 1899–1902, during which he was severely wounded, was three times mentioned in despatches (including 25 April 1902 "for his conduct of a successful attack on a Boer laager of 25 January, 1901, and for general good service"), promoted Brevet Major in November 1900, and received the Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps.

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