Edward Chapman (British Army officer)

General Sir Edward Francis Chapman KCB (1840–1926) was a British Army officer who commanded the Army in Scotland.

Military career
Chapman was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1858. He served in Abyssinia between 1867 and 1868 and was a member of a mission to Yarkand in China in 1874. He also served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1878 to 1880.

He was appointed Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, India in 1881 and went on the Burma expedition in 1885. He was Quartermaster-General for India from 1885 and then became Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office in 1891. He was made Commander Scottish District in 1896, a post he held until 1901; he retired in 1906.

He lived at Limpsfield in Surrey.

Family
In 1886 he married Georgiana Bayley, daughter of Edward Clive Bayley.