John Folliot

Lieutenant-General John Folliot (or Folliott; died 4 November 1748) was an officer of the British Army.

Biography Folliot joined the Army as an ensign in the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards on 20 March 1704, and served at the defence of Gibraltar during the winter of 1704–1705. Folliot was promoted to lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards on 24 June 1706, then served as first adjutant of the regiment from 25 March 1710 until he was made captain-lieutenant of the colonel's company, with rank as a lieutenant-colonel of Foot, on 12 November 1713. He served again as first adjutant between July 1715 and February 1721, being promoted to captain on 23 November 1716, second major on 8 July 1721 and first major on 3 August 1733.

Besides his regimental service, Folliott was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Pendennis Castle on 19 June 1729, and Governor of Carlisle on 9 July 1739. He had purchased the estate of Leith Hill Place, at Ockley in Surrey, from John Worsfold, and by 1728 was a justice of the peace resident at Ockley. His only child Susanna predeceased him in 1743, and his heir, also John Folliott, sold Leith Hill Place to Richard Hull in 1760.