Family and Education
b. 4 Feb. 1723, s. of Capt. John Burgoyne of Sherborne, Warws. by Anna Maria, da. and coh. of Charles Burneston of Hackney, Mdx.Gossip had it that he was really the son of Robert Benson†, 1st Baron Bingley. See Horace Walpole Corresp. (Yale ed.), xxviii. 336; Westminster Abbey Reg. ed. Chester (1876), 331-2, 450. The story is refuted in E. B. de Fonblanque, Life and Corresp. John Burgoyne, 4-8. educ. Westminster 1733-8. m. Lady Charlotte Stanley, da. of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby, 2da. d.v.p.
Offices Held
Cornet 1 R. Drag. 1744, lt. 1745, capt. 1745, sold out 1751; capt. 11 Drag. 1756; capt.-lt. and lt.-col. 2 Ft. Gds. 1758; lt.-col. commdt. 16 Drag. 1759, brevet col. 1762; col. 16 Drag. 1763 – 79; gov. Fort William 1769 – 79; maj.-gen. 1772, lt.-gen. (local rank, America) 1776, lt.-gen. 1777; c.-in-c. Ireland 1782 – 84; col. 4 Ft. 1782 – d.
PC [I] 4 May 1782.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Hertford Street, Mayfair, Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1790-1820
Web Title
BURGOYNE, John (1723-92)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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