John Dalling
British Army general
General Sir John Dalling, 1st Baronet (c. 1731 – 16 January 1798) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.
Origins
Dalling was the son of John Dalling (1697–1744), of Bungay in Suffolk, by his wife Catherine Windham (d.1738), daughter (and in her issue eventual heiress) of Colonel William Windham (1673–1730), MP, of Earsham in Norfolk (which estate he bought in about 1720 with South Sea Bubble profits). Colonel Windham was the second son of William Windham of Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, and was a first cousin of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, both being grandsons of Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet. In 1810, on the death of Joseph Windham (1739–1810) of Earsham (Colonel Windham's grandson), Dalling's eldest surviving son inherited that estate.
Career
He served under James Wolfe with the British army which fought in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1758 and which captured Quebec from the French in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Dalling was Governor of Jamaica from 1777 to 1782 and Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army (Fort St. George), from 1784 to 1786. He was made Colonel of the 60th Foot in 1776 and having been promoted to lieutenant-general in 1782, he became Colonel of the 37th Foot in 1783.
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