Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise

Sir Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise
Born	17 March 1864
Died	24 June 1927 (aged 63)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1885–1920
Rank	Major-general
Unit	Grenadier Guards
Commands held	3rd Bn Grenadier Guards School of Musketry 20th Brigade 40th Division 73rd Division
Battles/wars	2nd Boer War World War I
Awards	MVO (1911) CB (1915) KCMG (1919) Ten Mentions in Despatches Order of Leopold (Belgium) Legion of Honour (France) Croix de guerre 1914-1918 (France)
Relations	Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise (Father) Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise (Brother)
Other work	Secretary, Officers' Association

Major-General Sir Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise KCMG CB MVO (17 March 1864 – 24 June 1927) was a British Army officer in the Second Boer War and First World War, and a good amateur cricketer.

Harold Ruggles-Brise was born on 17 March 1864, the fifth son of Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise, KCB, of Spains Hall, Essex, (1825–99) and his wife Marianne Weyland Bowyer-Smith, daughter of Sir Edward Bowyer-Smith, 10th Baronet, of Hill Hall, Essex. His eldest brothers were Archie (who inherited Spains Hall) and Evelyn (later Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, chairman of the Prison Commission). Unlike his elder brothers, who went to Eton College, Harold was educated at Winchester College, where he was in the Rev J.T. Bramston's House, and at Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford, Ruggles-Brise obtained a Second Class in Classical Moderations and his cricket Blue in 1883.

After Oxford, Ruggles-Brise entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, passing out in 1885, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He served with the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, as battalion adjutant of the 3rd Battalion 1893–4 and as adjutant of the Guards Depot at Caterham 1895. He then studied at the Staff College, Camberley 1896–7.