Robert Barton (British Army officer)

Sir Robert Barton
Born31 July 1768[1]
Fethard, County Tipperary, Ireland[2]
Died17 March 1853 (aged 84)[2]
London, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Service / branchBritish Army
RankGeneral
Unit11th Light Dragoons
2nd Life Guards
Battles / wars
AwardsKnighthood

General Sir Robert Johnstone Barton, KCH (31 July 1768 – 17 March 1853) was an Anglo-Irish officer of the British Army. He saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799 and the Peninsular War.

  1. ^ Fishwick, Henry (1900). The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness. Rochdale J. Clegg. p. 317.
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