Lieutenant colonel john by biography

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    John By

    British military engineer

    John By

    John By
    Royal Engineers Museum

    Born(1779-08-07)7 August 1779[1][2]
    Lambeth, Surrey
    Died1 February 1836(1836-02-01) (aged 56)
    Shernfold Park, Frant, Sussex
    Buried

    St Alban's Church, Frant, Sussex

    Allegiance United Kingdom
    BranchBoard of Ordnance
    Years of service1799–1836
    RankLieutenant Colonel
    Service number298
    UnitRoyal Artillery
    Corps of Royal Engineers[3]: 14 
    CommandsCRE, Royal Gunpowder Mills, 1812–
    Rideau Canal, 1826–32
    CampaignsPeninsular War, 1811[3]
    MemorialsMajor's Hill Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada[4]
    Peninsula and Waterloo Campaigns 1808–15 Memorial, Rochester Cathedral, Rochester, Kent[5]
    Alma materRoyal Military Academy
    Spouse(s)

    Elizabeth Johnson Baines

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    (m. 1801⁠–⁠1814)​

    Esther March

    

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    John By


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    John By

    (7 Aug 1779 - 1 Feb 1836)


    English military engineer who constructed the 126-mile (202-km) Rideau Canal connecting the Ottawa River and Lake Ontario, Canada


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    1781 - 1836

    from Dictionary of National Biography (1901)


    Colonel John By, Royal Engineers; 1830
    —as imagined bygd an artist (known only as “C.K.”) showing the Colonel as a military man, but without authenticity. (source)

    [p.363] John By (1781-1836), lieutenant-colonel royal engineers, founder of Bytown, now huvudstad i kanada, Canada, and engineer of the Rideau canal, was born in 1781. After passing through the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, he received a kommission as second lieutenant in the royal artillery on 1 Aug. 1801, but was transferred to the royal engineers on 20 Dec. following. His further commissions were dated: lieutenant 18 April 1801, second captain 2 March, first captain 24 June 1809, bre