{{Short description|British Army general}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = General | name = Sir John St George | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}} | image = | caption = | birth_date = 18 January 1812 | death_date = 17 March 1891 | burial_label = | burial_place = Brompton Cemetery, London | birth_place = | death_place = | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | branch = 23px British Army | service_years = | rank = General | unit = | commands = | battles = Crimean War | awards = Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath | relations = | other_work = }}General '''Sir John St George''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}} (18 January 1812 – 17 March 1891) was a British Army officer.
==Military career== Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, John St. George was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1828.<ref name=odnb>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24490|title=John St. George at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24490|accessdate=31 July 2017}}</ref> He was decorated for his conduct during the Crimean War, where he commanded the siege train at the fall of Sevastopol in 1855.<ref>{{cite book |title=Obituary|series=The Times, 19 March 1891}}</ref>
From 1859 to 1869 he was successively President of the Ordnance Committee and then Director of Ordnance at the War Office.<ref name=odnb/>
He was Master Gunner, St. James's Park, the ceremonial head of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from 1884 to 1891,<ref name=odnb/> and was appointed Colonel Commandant of the 21st and 26th (Royal Arsenal) Kent Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1864.<ref>''Army Lists''.</ref>
He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.<ref name=odnb/>
==Ancestry== He was born on 18 January 1812, the eldest son of Lieutenant-colonel John St. George of Parkfield, Birkenhead, by Frances, daughter of Archibald Campbell, M.D.<ref name=odnb /><ref>{{Cite DNB|wstitle= St. George, John |volume= 50 |last= Lloyd |first= Ernest Marsh |author-link= Ernest Marsh Lloyd |pages= 125-126 |year= |short=1}}</ref>
His coat of arms was painted in watercolours and is blazoned as: Lt Gen Sir John St. George KC – Arms: Quarterly of six, 1st Argent a chief Azure overall a lion rampant Gules ducally crowned Or (St. George), 2nd Argent a cross flory Sable (St. George ancient), 3rd Gules three covered cups Or (Argentine),<ref>Note: sometimes spelled d'Argentein or Argentyn.</ref> 4th Argent a fess between six annulets Gules (Avenel),<ref>Note: (Avenel of Cambridgeshire) instead could be one of the many (Lucas) branches.</ref> 5th Azure a fess dancetty between six escallops Or (Engaine), 6th Argent a sun of sixteen points Gules (Delahay). Crest: A demi lion rampant gules ducally crowned Or armed and langued Azure. Motto: Firmitas in Coelo (Stability in Heaven).<ref>[https://heraldryonline.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/st-george-scudamore-armorial-watercolours/ Heraldry Online Blog: St George and Scudamore Armorial Watercolours], authored by Stephen J F Plowman at 14:04 on 19 January 2011. Accessed 31 July 2020.</ref>
==Family== In 1860 he married Elizabeth Marianne Evans (b. 1829, bapt. 5 April 1829 in Selsey, Sussex),<ref name=odnb/><ref name=EMStG1871>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1871&indiv=try&h=14253477 Elizabeth M St George K C B in the 1871 England Census], accessed via ancestry.com paid subscription site on 31 July 2020.</ref> daughter of Thomas Evans, esquire (b. about 1795 in Hampreston, Dorset) and his wife Margaret Harris (m. 16 Feb 1819 in St Marylebone Parish, Middlesex).<ref>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=9841&h=52667807&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=7619 Elizabeth Marianne Evans in the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975]. Accessed via ancestry.com paid subscription site on 31 July 2020.</ref>
Their son, Capt. Baldwin John St George KCB (16 Feb 1862 in Knightsbridge, Middlesex<ref name=EMStG1871 /> – 6 November 1912 in Worcester, Worcestershire<ref>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=1904&h=438179 Baldwin John St. George in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995], (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.</ref>), married Susan Sybil Staplehurst (1862 in Maresfield or Uckfield, Sussex – 13 September 1939 in Worcestershire),<ref>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=1904&h=5054662 Susan Sybil St.George in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995], (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.</ref> daughter of George Staplehurst, on 13 July 1894 at Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington and Chelsea, England.<ref>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1623&h=3185567&ssrc=pt Baldwin John St George in the London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932]. London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: p84/tri2/022. Accessed via ancestry.com paid subscription site on 31 July 2020.</ref>
thumb|right|Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London
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{{s-start}} {{s-hon}} {{succession box | title=Master Gunner,<br/>St. James's Park | before=Poole England | after=Sir Collingwood Dickson | years=1884–1891}} {{s-end}}
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