Victor Alexander Gascoyne-Cecil

Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Alexander Gascoyne-Cecil (21 May 1891 – 17 January 1977) was a British soldier.

He was educated at Westminster and RMC Sandhurst. He joined the Hampshire Regiment during World War I, was promoted to major in the Tank Corps, and was twice wounded. After the war, Gascoyne-Cecil's regiment was posted to India. In 1922, he fought on the North-West Frontier with Pakistan. When war broke out in 1939, his regimental battalion was recalled.

On 25 November 1915, Gascoyne-Cecile married Fairlie Estelle Caroline, elder daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Watson of the Suffolk Regiment. They had two children, Rupert Arthur Victor Gascoyne-Cecil and Anthony Robert Gascoyne-Cecil.

In 1949, Gascoyne-Cecil was appointed High Sheriff of Essex.