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Sir John Chetham McLeod (23 January 1831 – 10 January 1914) was a Scottish British Army officer and colonial administrator. McLeod was born in

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, and educated at Perth Academy and the University of St Andrews. He was commissioned into the

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as an ensign in 1846 and served in the Crimean War. He was with his regiment in India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and was made a

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in the

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. McLeod took command of the 42nd in March 1868 and fought in the third of the Anglo-Ashanti wars, for which he was knighted. He relinquished command in September 1877 and was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General in Scotland. McLeod subsequently served in Belfast before assuming the position of

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. He acted as Governor of Ceylon during the temporary absence of Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon from June to November 1885. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1891 Birthday Honours and placed on retired pay 1 April 1892. He was appointed Colonel of the Black Watch on 26 February 1907. He died in London in 1914.

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