Major-General Hugh Edward Herdon CB CIE (28 October 1871 – 11 March 1958) was a British Indian Army officer. Herdon was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, as a Queen's India Cadet and was commissioned second lieutenant in the Wiltshire Regiment in July 1892. He was promoted lieutenant in August 1894, transferred to the Indian Army in December 1896 and joined the 55th Coke's Rifles. He served in the Tirah Expedition in 1897–1898 and on the North-West Frontier in 1901–1902. He was promoted captain in 1901 and major in July 1910 and served as a brigade major from November 1908 and as a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general from 6 August 1914 to 16 March 1915 and 30 December 1915 to 8 January 1916, a general staff officer grade 2 from 17 March 1915 to 29 December