John Ross

Lieutenant-General John Ross (died 17 May 1843) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.

Military career Ross got his first commission on 2 June 1793, as an ensign in the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot on 8 May 1796, and captain in the same regiment on 11 January 1800.

On 28 January 1808, Ross purchased a lieutenant-colonelcy in the 91st Regiment of Foot, but exchanged back into the 52nd on 18 February 1808. He went to the Peninsular War with the 2/52nd, which he commanded at Vimiero, where he was mentioned in despatches. He was made a Companion of the Bath in June 1815. After serving as Deputy Adjutant-General in Ireland from 1815 to 1818, Ross was made Commandant of the Depot on the Isle of Wight in 1819, and went on half-pay in 1820. On 27 May 1825, he was promoted major-general. and retired from that post in 1837. The next year, on 28 June 1838, he was promoted lieutenant general.

He is not to be confused with Major-General Sir John Ross, KCB, of the 95th Regiment and Cape Corps, who died in 1835.