Editing John Clitherow (section)

{{Short description|British Army general}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix    = Lieutenant General
| name                = John Clitherow
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| office              = Deputy Governor General of the Province of Canada
| term_start          = 18 September 1841
| term_end            = 24 September 1841
| monarch             = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]]
| governor_general    = [[Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham|Lord Sydenham]]
| premier             = [[Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine|Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine]]<br>[[Robert Baldwin]] (Deputy Premier)
| office2             = Member of the [[Special Council of Lower Canada]]
| term_start2         = 28 June 1838
| term_end2           = 2 November 1838
| monarch2            = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]]
| governor_general2   = [[John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham|Lord Durham]]
| birth_date          = 13 December 1782
| birth_place         = [[Essendon, Hertfordshire]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1852|10|14|1782|12|13}}
| death_place         = [[Boston Manor House]], [[Brentford]], England
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| nationality         = British
| spouse              = (1) Sarah Christie Burton (1809)<br>(2) Millicent Pole of Gloucestershire (1825)
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| children            = John Christie Clitherow
| parents             = Christopher Clitherow and Anne Jodrell
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| residence           = Boston Manor House
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| occupation          = Army officer
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| allegiance          = {{UK}}
| branch              = [[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
| serviceyears        = 1799 - 1842
| rank                = [[Lieutenant-General]]
| unit                = [[History of the Scots Guards (1805–1913)|Scots Fusilier Guards]]
| commands            = Commanding Officer, Military District of Montreal (1838-1841)<br>Commanding Officer, [[Canada West]] (1841-1842)
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* [[French campaign in Egypt and Syria|Egyptian Campaign]]
* [[Napoleonic Wars]]
** [[British Army during the Napoleonic Wars#Hanover 1805|Hanover Expedition]]
** [[Walcheren Campaign]]
** [[Peninsular War]]
* [[Lower Canada Rebellion]]
** [[Battle of Beauharnois]]
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| mawards             = [[Order of the Crescent]]
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[[Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] '''John Clitherow''' (13 December 1782 &ndash; 14 October 1852) was a British army officer and colonial administrator. He was briefly Deputy [[Governor-General of the Province of Canada]] in 1841.