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{{Infobox military person
| name =Sir John Clavering
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| birth_date =''bapt.'' 1722
| death_date =30 August 1777 (aged 55)
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| branch =[[British Army]]
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| rank =[[Lieutenant General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]]
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| commands =[[Indian Army]]
| battles =[[Seven Years' War]]
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[[Lieutenant General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]] '''Sir John Clavering''' [[Order of the Bath|KB]] (''bapt.'' 1722 – 30 August 1777) was an army officer and diplomat.

==Military career==
Baptised in [[Lanchester, County Durham]], [[England]] in 1722, Clavering was the younger son of Sir James Clavering Bt and Catherine Yorke,<ref name="DNB">T. H. Bowyer, ‘Clavering, Sir John (bap. 1722, d. 1777)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5553, accessed 26 May 2008]</ref> and younger brother of [[Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet]].<ref name=Peer>[http://www.thepeerage.com/p22708.htm#i227078 The Peerage website]</ref> He was commissioned as [[Ensign (rank)|ensign]] in the Army in 1736, and was a captain of the [[Coldstream Guards]] by 1753.<ref name="DNB"/>

During the [[Seven Years' War]], Clavering served in the West Indies.<ref name="DNB"/>
During the [[Invasion of Guadeloupe (1759)|Invasion of Guadeloupe]] Major-General [[John Barrington (British Army officer)|John Barrington]] transferred most of the soldiers from [[Fort Royal]], Martinique, to Fort Louis on the [[Grande-Terre]] side of [[Guadeloupe]]. In March he used this as a base from which naval transport carried separate forces under Brigadiers [[Byam Crump]] and John Clavering to attack French positions around the island. The attacks were highly effective, and the French capitulated on 2 May 1759.<ref>{{citation|page=32 |last=Brumwell|first=Stephen|title=Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qEZfYRuZLJQC&pg=PA32 |access-date=23 October 2019|date=9 January 2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-67538-3}}</ref>

In 1762, Clavering obtained a colonelcy on the [[52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot]].<ref name="DNB"/> Promoted to [[Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]], in 1770, Clavering was appointed as governor of [[Landguard Fort]].<ref name="DNB"/> In 1773, Clavering travelled to India as a member of the [[Supreme Council of Bengal]]. In 1774, shortly after [[Warren Hastings]] was appointed [[Governor General]], Clavering was appointed as [[Commander in Chief in India]].<ref name=Peer/>

He was created a [[Knight of the Bath]] in 1775. He died at [[Calcutta, India]],<ref name=Peer/> and is buried there in [[South Park Street Cemetery]].<ref>''The South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta'', published by the Association for the Preservation of Historical Cemeteries in India, 5th ed., 2009</ref>

==Family==
Clavering was married twice; firstly (in 1756) he married Lady Diana West, daughter of [[John West, 1st Earl De La Warr]]. Lady Diana died in 1766. In 1772, Clavering married his cousin, Catherine Yorke.<ref name="DNB"/>

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{{succession box | title= Colonel of the [[52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot|52nd Regiment of Foot]] | before= [[Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet|Sir John Sebright]]| after=[[Cyrus Trapaud]] | years=1762–1777}}
{{succession box | before=Robert Armiger | title=[[Governor of Landguard Fort]] | years=1770–1776 | after=[[Alexander Mackay (British Army officer)|Hon. Alexander Mackay]]}}
{{succession box | title=[[Commander-in-Chief, India]] | before=[[Alexander Champion (East India Company officer)|Alexander Champion]] | after=[[Giles Stibbert]] | years=1774–1777}}
{{succession box | before=[[Robert Monckton]] | title=[[Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed]] | years=1776–1777 | after=[[John Mordaunt (British Army officer)|Sir John Mordaunt]]}}
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