| Biography | Field Marshal Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DL (16 October 1865 28 August 1946) was a British Army officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He served in the Second Boer War, led XIV Corps during World War I and later advised the Government on the implementation of the Geddes report, which advocated a large reduction in defence expenditure, and consequentially he officiated over a major reduction in the size of the British Army. |