John Huske

John Huske (1692? – 18 January 1761) was a British Army general known for his leadership at the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. From 1749 he was governor of Jersey.

He was appointed on 7 April 1708 ensign in Colonel Toby Caulfield's (afterwards David Creighton's) regiment of foot, then campaigning in Spain, and subsequently disbanded. He obtained his company in Lord Hertford's (15th foot) on 11 January 1715. On 22 July 1715 he was appointed captain and lieutenant-colonel of one of the four new companies then added to the Coldstream Guards. At that time and afterwards he was aide-de-camp to William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan. In 1715 he was sent by the authorities to arrest the Jacobite Tory leader Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (who happened to be Lord Hertford's brother-in-law) at his home at Orchard Wyndham, but was eluded when Wyndham escaped through his bedroom window onto a waiting horse. The story is related in detail by the contemporary commentator Boyer (1716). In two letters written by Cadogan, at the Hague, in a feigned name, promising high reward for disclosure of Jacobite plots, confidence is invited in the writer's aide-de-camp, Colonel John Huske, who, in the letter of 1 November 1716, is deputed to meet the recipient (E. Burke) privately at Cambray. The treasury records note a payment of £100 to Huske for a journey to Paris on particular service, and disbursements by him for the subsistence of three Dutch and two Swiss battalions in the pay of Holland, which were taken into the British service on the alarms of an invasion from Spain in April 1719. Huske concerted measures with Whitworth, British plenipotentiary at the Hague, for collecting these troops at Williamstadt and bringing them into the River Thames.

He was appointed lieutenant-governor of Hurst Castle 8 July 1721; became second major of the Coldstreamers, 30 October 1734; first major, 5 July 1739; and colonel 32nd foot, 25 December 1740. He was a brigadier at the battle of Dettingen, where he was severely wounded. He was promoted major-general, and appointed colonel The Royal Regiment of Welch Fuzileers on 28 July 1743, in recognition of his distinguished services, a position he filled until his death.

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