Stanley Brenton von Donop

Major-General Sir Stanley Brenton von Donop KCB KCMG (1860–1941) was a British Army officer who became Master-General of the Ordnance.

Military career
Donop was commissioned into the Royal Artillery. He served in the Second Boer War and in 1901 was appointed Commanding Officer of Lord Methuen's Composite Regiment of Australian Bushmen. He led an important action at Kleinfontein the following year.

In 1908 Donop was appointed Chief Instructor at the School of Gunnery and in 1911 he was appointed Director of Artillery at the War Office.

Donop had a key role in the First World War, having been appointed Master-General of the Ordnance in 1913. He ordered the 6-inch howitzers which were the main instrument for the bombardments on the Western Front.

He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery.