John Sharp

General Sir John Aubrey Taylor Sharp, (6 September 1917 – 15 January 1977) was a British Army officer who achieved high office in the 1970s.

Military career Sharp was educated at Repton School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1938. He served in the Second World War with 5th Medium Regiment and then with the 4th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery. and a bar to the award in 1943, both "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East." He went to the Staff College, Quetta, in India in 1944 and then became Personal Liaison Officer to Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery in 1945.

Cricket Sharp played first-class cricket for Leicestershire and the University of Cambridge in five matches between 1937 and 1946. His father, Aubrey Sharp, was a cricketer of greater renown, appearing in first-class cricket for Leicestershire between 1908 and 1935 and captaining the team in 1921 and part of 1922.