Henry Streatfeild

Colonel Sir Henry Streatfeild, GCVO, CB, CMG, JP, DL (1857–1938) was a British Army officer and courtier who served as the commanding officer of the Grenadier Guards, and was Equerry to Edward VII from 1908 until the King's death in 1910. He was then Private Secretary and Equerry to Queen Alexandra from 1910 until her death in 1925.

Early life Born on 4 January 1857, he was the son of Colonel Henry Dorrien Streatfeild, JP, DL (1825–1889), of Chiddingstone, Kent, and his wife Marion Henrietta, daughter of Oswald Smith, of Blendon Hall, Kent. Henry was born into the Streatfeild family, part of the landed gentry, the family had lived at Chiddingstone since the 16th century; he was promoted Commander in 1912, Knight Commander in 1916 and Knight Grand Cross in the 1926 New Year Honours. He was also appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1911 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1918.

Other appointments and retirement Streatfeild also held other public appointments. He chaired the Kent County Territorial Association, was a governor of Wellington College and, from 1901, served as a deputy lieutenant and a magistrate of Kent. He died on 25 July 1938; he was survived by his wife, Lady Florence Anson (daughter of the 2nd Earl of Lichfield) and their only child, Colonel Henry Sidney John Streatfeild, DSO.