John Huske

Lieutenant-General John Huske
Grosvenor Chapel, in Audley Street where Huske was buried
Governor of Jersey
In office 1749–1751
Governor of Sheerness
In office 1745–1749
Lieutenant Governor Hurst Castle
In office 1745–1745
Personal details
Born	1692 Newmarket, Suffolk
Died	18 January 1761 Albemarle Street, London
Military service
Allegiance	Great Britain
Branch/service	British Army
Years of service	1708-1749
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	Colonel, 23rd Foot, later Royal Welch Fusiliers 1743–1761
Battles/wars	War of the Spanish Succession Malplaquet War of the Austrian Succession Dettingen; Lauffeld Jacobite rising of 1745 Falkirk Muir; Culloden

Lieutenant General John Huske (ca. 1692 – 18 January, 1761) was a British military officer whose active service began in 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession and ended in 1748.

During his early career, he was a close associate of the Earl of Cadogan and the Duke of Marlborough. From 1715 to 1720, he was also employed as a British political and diplomatic agent, primarily involved in anti-Jacobite operations. He commanded a brigade at Dettingen; during the Jacobite rising of 1745, he fought at Falkirk, Muir, and Culloden. Promoted major-general in 1743, his active career ended when the War of the Austrian Succession ended in 1748.

He never married and died in London on 18 January, 1761. His brother Ellis emigrated to North America, and one of his relatives, another John Huske, was a delegate to the 1789 North Carolina Constitutional Convention.^[1]