Burgoyne, SIR JOHN FOX, Bart.

Burgoyne, SIR JOHN FOX, Bart., engineer officer, a natural son of the above, was born in 1782. After three years at Eton (where he was Hallam's fag) and two at Woolwich, he entered the Royal Engineers in 1798; from 1800 to 1807 served in the Mediterranean; was with Moore at Corunna in 1809; and served under Wellington through all the Peninsular war, well earning the K.C.B., which he did not, however, receive till 1838. In 1814 he was commanding engineer of the expedition to New Orleans, and in 1826 of Clinton's to Portugal. In the Crimean war he was chief of the engineering department of the British army; but the discovery that Sebastopol could not be taken off-hand led, in February 1855, to his unjust recall. However, he was made a baronet in 1856, constable of the Tower in 1865, and a field-marshal in 1868, besides receiving many more marks of honour. He died 7th October 1871. See his Life by Colonel Wrottesley (2 vols. 1873).