John Parslow (British Army officer)
John Parslow | |
|---|---|
| Died | 15 November 1786 Bath, Somerset |
| Allegiance |  Great Britain |
| Service |  British Army |
| Rank | General |
| Battles / wars | Seven Years' War[1] |
General John Parslow (died 15 November 1786) was a British Army general of the 18th century.
Military career
[edit]Parslow served as a junior officer with the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards.[2] He became colonel of the 70th (Glasgow Lowland) Regiment of Foot in April 1758,[3] colonel of the 54th Regiment of Foot in September 1760[4][5] and colonel of the 30th Regiment of Foot in April 1770.[6] He was promoted to full general on 20 November 1782.[7]
He was Governor of Gibraltar from 1761 to 1762.[8]
Family life
[edit]John Parslow married Margaret Hillersden, the daughter of the Whig MP for Bedford, William Hillersden, and his wife Elizabeth.[9] Parslow's daughter Charlotte predeceased him on 11 June 1786.[10] Parslow himself died at the town of Bath on 15 November 1786.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Biographical account of John Hadley, Vice President of the Royal Society and the Inventor of the Quadrant and of his brothers, George and Henry Hadley. R.B. Bate. 1835. p. 26.
- ^ a b "General John Parslow 1758 - 1760". Queen's Royal Surreys. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 13 January 2008. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 18 April 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "No. 10039". The London Gazette. 27 September 1760. p. 1.
- ^ "30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 19 December 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
- ^ Haydn's Book of Dignities (1851) p. 318.
- ^ Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities. Longmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 277.
- ^ "Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society". Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- ^ Lynne Squires (1885). "East Barnet: Cass, Frederick Charles, b. 1824". Retrieved 4 January 2019.