John Dalling
| Sir John Dalling, 1st Baronet | |
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Sir John Dalling
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| Born | c. 1731 |
| Died | 16 January 1798 |
| Allegiance |
 Great Britain
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Rank | General |
| Commands held | Madras Army |
| Battles/wars |
Seven Years' War American War of Independence |
General Sir John Dalling, 1st Baronet (c. 1731 – 16 January 1798) was a British soldier and colonial administrator.
Dalling was the son of John Dalling, of Bungay, Suffolk, by his wife Anne, a daughter of Colonel William Windham (1673-1730), of Earsham, or Ersham, Norfolk (bought circa 1720, with South Sea bubble profits), MP. Colonel Windham was the second son of William Windham I, of Felbrigg Hall, and a first cousin of Lord Townshend, both being grandsons of Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet. Colonel Windham's grandson, Joseph Windham of Earsham (1739–1810), died in 1810 at which point Dalling's heirs inherited that estate.
He served with the British forces under James Wolfe that participated in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign (1758) and captured Quebec from France in 1759. Dalling was Governor of Jamaica from 1777 to 1782 and commander-in-chief of the forces in Madras (Fort St. George), from 1784 to 1786. He was made a colonel of the 60th Foot in 1776 and, having been promoted to lieutenant-general in the army in 1782, he became colonel in the 37th Foot in 1783. Promoted to full general in 1796, he was created a baronet of Burwood in the County of Surrey on 11 March 1783.
Dalling married firstly, Elizabeth (1747-6.7.1768), daughter of Philip Pinnock (1720-?), of St. Andrew's, Jamaica, by Grace Dawkins/Dakins (1729-14.8.1771). Pinnock was sometime Speaker of the Jamaican House of Assembly in Kingston, his grandfather having been a Quaker from Reading who had emigrated to Barbadoes before 1658. Elizabeth Dalling and their daughter Elizabeth Windham Dalling (1763-1.5.1768) died within nine weeks of each other. In 1770 Dalling remarried Louisa, (died 1824), daughter of Excelles Lawford, of Burwood, Surrey. Their eldest surviving son Sir William Windham Dalling, 2nd Baronet, of Earsham, Norfolk (inherited 1810), and 17 Lower Berkeley Street, Mayfair, died in 1864, aged 89, having been High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1819 and been awarded compensation as owner of the Donnington Castle sugar estate, in parish of St. Mary, Jamaica, which in its day had brought an annual income of £5,000 to £6,000, in the 1830s.
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