Ivo William Ulick Fennell Branch CB CVO (b. 1851; d. 1928) was a British Army officer.
Life and military career Educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, Branch was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in March 1872.Obituary, The Times, 16 May 1928
Branch served as aide-de-camp to George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, 1874–77. His particularly undistinguished military career included being criticised for 'rashness' and 'absent-minded, uncalculating enthusiasm' in the face of the enemy during the British occupation of Egypt."The Profligate Branch: Ivo Branch and His Excess". The Journal of Glamorgan History. 6 (1): 16. 2008 His reputation was besmirched by accusations of bisexuality."Branch, Ivo". Glamorgan Family History Society Journal. 33: 16. 2007."Obituary: Brigadier Ivo Branch The Daily Telegraph, 17 May 1928 Branch was one of several senior army officers implicated in the Cleveland Street scandal in 1889, accused of being protected by his privilege.Heffer, Simon, The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914, (London: Penguin Random House, 2017)
Nevertheless, he was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1898.
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