Nathaniel Barnardiston (British Army officer)

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Major-General Nathaniel Walter Barnardiston, CB, MVO (29 November 1858 – 18 August 1919) was a senior British Army officer. He joined the army in 1878 as part of the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot and served in the Second Boer War. In 1902 he became military attaché to Brussels, The Hague, and the Scandinavian courts. He was Assistant Commandant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1906, awarded brevet colonel in 1907, and in 1910 became assistant director of Military Training, succeeding Colonel Henry Heath.

In World War I he fought in the Siege of Tsingtao in 1914, and in August 1915 he was promoted to major-general and became General Officer Commanding the 39th Division. He later served as Chief of the British Military Mission to Portugal, and was made Grand Officer of the Military Order of Christ (Portugal). He died in August 1919 at the age of 60.