John Irwin (British Army officer)

British Army general

General Sir John Irwin KB
Born	1727/8 Dublin, Ireland
Died	May 1788 Parma, Italy
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
Service / branch	British Army
Rank	General
Battles / wars	Seven Years' War
Awards	Knight of the Order of the Bath

General Sir John Irwin KB (1727/28 – May 1788) was an Irish soldier who served in the British Army.

Career

Educated in Ireland, Irwin was commissioned into the 5th Regiment of Foot in 1736. He served in an attack on the French coast in 1758 and then fought under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick in Germany in 1760.

He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for East Grinstead from 1762 to 1783, Governor of Gibraltar from 1765 to 1767, member of the Irish privy council, and as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland from 1775 to 1782. Losing the last of these posts on the fall of Lord North's administration in March 1782, he moved back into his house in Piccadilly and his place in parliament, rising to full General and retiring from parliament in 1783. In debt, in 1783 he moved to France and then Parma, where he was welcomed by Ferdinand, Duke of Parma and Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma, and hosted British ex-patriates and visitors to the city until his death.

He married three times: to Elizabeth Henry in 1749, to Anne Barry in 1753 and finally to Caroline with whom he had two children.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded byCharles Sackville Sir Thomas Hales, Bt	Member of Parliament for East Grinstead 1762–1783 With: Earl of Middlesex 1762–1765 Sir Charles Farnaby 1765–1767 Lord George Sackville 1767–1782 Henry Arthur Herbert 1782–1783	Succeeded byHenry Arthur Herbert George Medley
Military offices
Preceded byEdward Cornwallis	Governor of Gibraltar 1765–1767	Succeeded byRobert Boyd (acting)
Preceded bySir David Cunynghame	Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot 1767–1780	Succeeded byJohn Campbell
Preceded byGeorge Augustus Eliott	Commander-in-Chief, Ireland 1775–1782	Succeeded byJohn Burgoyne
Preceded byGeorge Augustus Eliott	Governor of Londonderry 1775–1776	Succeeded byJohn Hale
Preceded bySir William Augustus Pitt	Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Horse (Carabiniers) 1780–1788	Succeeded byThe Earl of Carhampton

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	Spanish period (1462–1704) De Salinas Habsburg occupation (1704) Hesse-Darmstadt Nugent Shrimpton Elliott Stanwix Treaty of Utrecht (1713) Portmore Kane Clayton Sabine Hargrave Bland Fowke Tyrawley Home Cornwallis Irwin Boyd Eliott Boyd Rainsford O'Hara Kent and Strathearn Fox Dalrymple Cradock Campbell Don Chatham Don Crown colony (1830) Houston Woodford Wilson Gardiner Fergusson Codrington Airey Williams Napier of Magdala Adye Hardinge Smyth Nicholson Biddulph White Forestier-Walker Hunter Miles Smith-Dorrien Monro Godley Harington Ironside Liddell Gort Mason-Macfarlane Eastwood Anderson MacMillan Redman Keightley Ward Lathbury Begg Grandy Jackson British dependent territory (1981) Williams Terry Reffell Chapple White Luce Durie British Overseas Territory (2002) Richards Fulton Johns Dutton Davis Steel Bathurst

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