SIR

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• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)

JOHN COLBORNE

See also:

• SIR JOHN COLBORNE SEATON

SEATON  , 1sT BARON (1778-1863), British field marshal, was born at Lyndhurst, Hants, on the s 6th of February 1778 and entered the loth (Lancashire Fusiliers) in 1794, winning thereafter every step in his regimental promotion without purchase . He first saw service in the Helder expedition of 1799, and as a captain he took part in Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition to Egypt in 18os . He distinguished himself at Maida, and soon afterwards was brought under the notice of Sir John Moore, who obtained a majority for him and made him his military secretary . In this capacity he served through the Corunna campaign, and Sir John Moore's dying request that he should be given a lieutenant-colonelcy was at once complied with . In the summer of 1809 Lieut.-Colonel Colborne was again in the Peninsula, and before taking command of the 66th regiment, he witnessed the defeat of the Spaniards at Ocaila . With the 66th he was present at Busaco and shared in the defence of the lines of Torres Vedras, and next year, after temporarily commanding a brigade with distinction at the battle of Albuera, he was gazetted to command the famous 52nd Light Infantry (Oxfordshire and Bucks L.I.)with which corps he is most closely identified . He led it and was very severely wounded at Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), and only rejoined in July 1814 . Shortly after-wards he was placed in temporary charge of a brigade of the Light Division which he commanded in the Pyrenees engagements and the battles of Orthes and Toulouse . At the peace he was made colonel, aide-de-camp to the Prince Regent and K.C.B . In 1815 Colborne and the 52nd at Waterloo played a brilliant part in the repulse of the Old Guard at the close of the day . Promoted major-general in 1825, Colborne was soon after-wards made lieutenant-governor of Guernsey . In 183o he served as lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada .

In 1838 at the moment of his vacating the

post on promotion to lieutenant-general, the rebellion broke out, and he was ordered to assume the functions of governor-general and commander-in-chief . He quickly repressed the revolt, and in 1839, returning home, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Seaton of Seaton in Devonshire . From 1843 to 1849 he was high commissioner of the Ionian islands . In 1854 he was promoted full general, and from 1855 to r86o he was commander-in-chief in Ireland . He died at Torquay on the 17th of April 1863 . See the Life by G . C . Moore Smith (1906) .