John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton

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British Baron (1778-1863)

PoliticiansLived 1778 to 1863 · aged 85

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Field Marshal John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, was a British Army officer and colonial governor.

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The Battle of Albuera by William Barnes Wollen. Destruction of Colborne's brigade during the 1811 Battle of Albuera

Colborne's troops attack the insurgents and torch the church at the Battle of Saint-Eustache

Bronze statue of John Colborne, sculpted by George Gammon Adams, now at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester, originally erected at Mount Wise, Plymouth in 1866[14]

John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton portrait by George Theodore Berthon

Elizabeth Yonge Seaton

Awards 4

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

Waterloo Medal

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Welfs

Connected to John 6

Thomas MaitlandAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Welfs

Sir Harry Smith, 1st BaronetAlso won Waterloo Medal

Peregrine MaitlandAlso won Waterloo Medal

Mubarak Ali Khan IIAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Welfs

William George Keith ElphinstoneAlso won Waterloo Medal

Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-RathsamhausenAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Welfs

About this person

Field Marshal John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, was a British Army officer and colonial governor. After taking part as a junior officer in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition to Egypt and then the War of the Third Coalition, he served as military secretary to Sir John Moore at the Battle of Corunna.