Major-General George Erroll Prior-Palmer CB DSO(20 February 1903 – 18 August 1977) was a British Army officer and business man of Anglo-Irish origins. He saw active service in the Second World War and later was military attaché at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. and Major-General commanding the 6th Armoured Division. In civilian life he entered the world of commercial shipping and was successively a director of the Union-Castle Line, manager of Cayzer Irvine, and managing director of Overseas Containers Limited, before retiring in 1969.