Sir John Guise, 3rd Baronet

General Sir John Wright Guise, 3rd Baronet (20 July 1777 – 1 April 1865) was a British Army general.

Life Guise was born at Elmore, Gloucestershire, the second son of John Guise of Highnam Court, who was created a baronet in 1783, and died in 1794; his mother was the daughter and heiress of Thomas Wright. He was appointed ensign in the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot on 4 November 1794, and was transferred the year after to the 3rd Foot Guards, later the Scots Guards, in which he became lieutenant and captain in 1798, captain and lieutenant-colonel in 1805, and regimental first major in 1814.

Guise served with his regiment in the Ferrol Expedition, Vigo, and Cadiz in 1800, in Egypt in 1801, in Hanover in 1805–06, and accompanied it to Portugal in 1809. He was present at the Battle of Bussaco, and commanded the light companies of the guards, with some companies of the 95th Rifles attached, at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro. He commanded the first battalion 3rd Guards in the Peninsular War of 1812–14, including the Battle of Salamanca, the capture of Madrid, the Siege of Burgos and subsequent retreat, the Battle of Vittoria, the Battle of the Bidassoa, the Battle of the Nive, and the passage of the Adour. At the investment of and repulse of the sortie from Bayonne, he succeeded to the command of the second brigade of Guards when Maj-Gen Edward Stopford was wounded (gold cross and war medal).

In 1839 he was recorded as being a victim of crime. In the Registers of Prisoners, two sisters (one aged 25 and the other 15) were convicted of stealing a quantity of wood belonging to Sir John and served a short time in prison in the Littledean House of Correction.

At the time of his death, Guise was senior general in the Army List. It took place at Elmore Court on 1 April 1865, at the age of 87.