| Sir James Sayer | |
| Birth Date: | 13 January 1826 |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Birth Place: | Sibton Park, Suffolk, England |
| Death Place: | Marylebone, London, England |
| Birth Name: | James Robert Steadman Sayer |
| Commands: | Western District |
| Battles: | Crimean War |
| Awards: | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Lieutenant-General Sir James Robert Steadman Sayer (13 January 1826 – 12 June 1908) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Western District.
Sayer was born at Sibton Park, the eldest son of Robert Sayer and Frances Errington.[2] [3]
Sayer was commissioned as a cornet in the King's Dragoon Guards on 23 May 1845.[4] He served as a junior officer in the Crimean War and subsequently served in the British Indian Army.[4] He became General Officer Commanding Western District in England in April 1883.[5]
He was appointed Colonel of the 8th Hussars for a brief time in 1886. He was then Colonel of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards from 1886 to 1908[6] and, in that capacity, he was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1906 Birthday Honours.
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