John Drinkwater Bethune

John Drinkwater Bethune
Born9 June 1762
Died16 January 1844 (aged 81)
SpouseEleanor Congalton
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Arms: Party per pale, gu. and az., on a fesse, wavy, arg., three billets, of the second, between three garbs or.

Crest: Three wheat-ears, two in saltier, one in pale, or, encircled by a ducal coronet.

Motto: Labore omnia florent (Everything flourishes through work)[1]

Colonel John Drinkwater Bethune (born John Drinkwater, 9 June 1762 – 16 January 1844) was a British Army officer and military historian best known for his account of the Great Siege of Gibraltar that came out in 1785.[2][3]

  1. ^ John Burke, Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, Volume 1, Publisher H. Colburn, 1847. (page 352)
  2. ^ "New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors". Author and Book Info.com Beta Test Version. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
  3. ^ "National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections". The National Archives. Retrieved 16 July 2007.