Edmund Barrow

General Sir Edmund George Barrow, (28 January 1852 – 3 January 1934) was a senior British Indian Army officer who served as Military Secretary to the India Office from 1914 to 1917.

Early life and education Barrow was born in British India to Major General Joseph Lyons Barrow of the Madras Army, and his wife, Alicia. He was educated at Marlborough College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Having joined the Indian Army in 1877, he served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878 and the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. He was a member of the Lockhart Boundary Commission to Chitral, Kafirstan, Hunza and Wakhan in 1885 and the Anglo-Siamese Boundary Commission in 1889. but only three months later, in July 1900 was transferred as Chief of Staff for the China Expeditionary Force in response to the Boxer Rebellion, He was appointed Secretary to the Military Department of the Government of India in November 1901, with the temporary rank of Major general whilst so employed, and General Officer Commanding 1st (Peshawar) Division in India in 1904. He was appointed General Officer Commanding the Southern Army in India in 1908.

Barrow served in the First World War as Military Secretary to the India Office from 1914. He was appointed a member of the Council of India in 1917 and retired in 1919.