Dictionary of Indian Biography/Burgoyne, John

by Charles Edward Buckland

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BURGOYNE, JOHN (1722–1792)

General: son of Captain John Burgoyne: educated at Westminster: entered the Army in the 13th Light Dragoons, 1740: M.P. for Midhurst, 1761: for Preston, 1768: spoke, moving for a Select Committee, on the Government of India, 1772, urging the principle (afterwards adopted by Fox and Pitt in their India Bills) of Government control over the E. I. Co.: in the attack in Parliament on Lord Clive, May 3, 1773, Burgoyne, Chairman of the Committee, was the accuser, and carried condemnatory resolutions against Clive: commanded in America in 1774, and surrendered at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777: C. in C. in Ireland, 1782: was a manager of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1787: died June 4, 1792.