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{{Short description|British Army general}}
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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''John Parslow''' (died 15 November 1786) was a [[British Army]] general of the 18th century.

==Military career==
Parslow served as a junior officer with the [[Grenadier Guards|1st Regiment of Foot Guards]].<ref name=QRS>{{cite web|url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels_and_co/colonels/70th-foot/general-john-parslow.shtml|title=General John Parslow 1758 - 1760|publisher=Queen's Royal Surreys|access-date=4 January 2019}}</ref> He became colonel of the [[70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot|70th (Glasgow Lowland) Regiment of Foot]] in April 1758,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/070-758.htm |title=70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=16 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080113060427/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/070-758.htm |archive-date=13 January 2008 }}</ref> colonel of the [[54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot|54th Regiment of Foot]] in September 1760<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/054-757.htm |title=54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=16 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418212347/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/054-757.htm |archive-date=18 April 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=10039 |date=27 September 1760 |page=1 }}</ref> and colonel of the [[30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot|30th Regiment of Foot]] in April 1770.<ref name=regts>{{cite web|title=30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot |url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/030-689.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219004434/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/030-689.htm |archive-date=19 December 2007 |work=Regiments.org |access-date=7 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was promoted to full [[General (United Kingdom)|general]] on 20 November 1782.<ref name=haydn318>Haydn's ''Book of Dignities'' (1851) [https://archive.org/details/bookdignitiesco00haydgoog/page/n341 p. 318].</ref>

He was [[Governor of Gibraltar]] from 1761 to 1762.<ref>{{cite book |last=Haydn |first=Joseph |date=1851 |title=The Book of Dignities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buoKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA277 |publisher=Longmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans |page=277}}</ref>

==Family life==
John Parslow married Margaret Hillersden, the daughter of the [[Bedford (UK Parliament constituency)|Whig MP for Bedford]], [[William Hillersden]], and his wife Elizabeth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/publicationsofbe05bedf/page/90 |title=Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society|access-date=2019-01-08}}</ref> Parslow's daughter Charlotte predeceased him on 11 June 1786.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lynne Squires |url=https://archive.org/details/eastbarnet00cass/page/n91 |title=East Barnet: Cass, Frederick Charles, b. 1824 |year=1885 |access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref> Parslow himself died at the town of [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] on 15 November 1786.<ref name=QRS/>

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