John Parslow (British Army officer)
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General John Parslow (died 15 November 1786) was a British Army general of the 18th century.
Military career
Parslow served as a junior officer with the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards.{{cite web|url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels_and_co/colonels/70th-foot/general-john-parslow.shtml|title=General John Parslow 1758 - 1760|publisher=Queen's Royal Surreys|access-date=4 January 2019}} He became colonel of the 70th (Glasgow Lowland) Regiment of Foot in April 1758,{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/070-758.htm |title=70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=16 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080113060427/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/070-758.htm |archive-date=13 January 2008 }} colonel of the 54th Regiment of Foot in September 1760{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/054-757.htm |title=54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=16 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418212347/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/054-757.htm |archive-date=18 April 2007 }}{{London Gazette |issue=10039 |date=27 September 1760 |page=1 }} and colonel of the 30th Regiment of Foot in April 1770.{{cite web|title=30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot |url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/030-689.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219004434/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/030-689.htm |archive-date=19 December 2007 |work=Regiments.org |access-date=7 September 2009 |url-status=dead }} He was promoted to full general on 20 November 1782.Haydn's Book of Dignities (1851) [https://archive.org/details/bookdignitiesco00haydgoog/page/n341 p. 318].
He was Governor of Gibraltar from 1761 to 1762.{{cite book |last=Haydn |first=Joseph |date=1851 |title=The Book of Dignities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buoKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA277 |publisher=Longmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans |page=277}}
Family life
John Parslow married Margaret Hillersden, the daughter of the Whig MP for Bedford, William Hillersden, and his wife Elizabeth.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/publicationsofbe05bedf/page/90 |title=Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society|access-date=2019-01-08}} Parslow's daughter Charlotte predeceased him on 11 June 1786.{{cite web|author=Lynne Squires |url=https://archive.org/details/eastbarnet00cass/page/n91 |title=East Barnet: Cass, Frederick Charles, b. 1824 |year=1885 |access-date=2019-01-04}} Parslow himself died at the town of Bath on 15 November 1786.
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Category:British Army generals