John Harvey (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General Sir John Harvey, KCB KCH (23 April 1778 – 22 March 1852) was a British Army officer and a lieutenant governor.

He was commissioned into the 80th Foot in 1794 and served in several different locations, including France, Egypt, and India. He came to Canada in 1813 and served as a lieutenant colonel in the War of 1812, taking part in the British victories at the Battle of Stoney Creek and the Battle of Crysler's Farm in Ontario.

Legacy

Harvey, York County, New Brunswick, founded in 1837 when he was Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, is named for him.

Former Harvey Township (now amalgamated with Galway-Cavendish and Harvey Township), Peterborough County, Ontario, is named after him.

There is a monument to him in St. Paul's Church (Halifax). He is buried in Fort Massey Cemetery.

Amelia Clotilda Jennings wrote a poem for him upon his death.^[1]

Buckner, Phillip (1985). "Harvey, Sir John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. VIII (1851–1860) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.

Military offices
Preceded by Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas	Colonel of the 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot 1844–1852	Succeeded by George Augustus Henderson
Political offices
Preceded by George Wright	Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island 1836–1837	Succeeded by Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
Preceded by Sir Archibald Campbell	Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick 1837–1841	Succeeded by Sir William MacBean George Colebrooke
Preceded by Sir Henry Prescott	Governor of Newfoundland 1841–1846	Succeeded by Sir John Le Marchant
Note: The year after Sir John Harvey had stepped down as governor of Newfoundland and when Sir John Le Marchant was appointed, the colony was administered by Robert Law, a British Army officer.
Preceded by Sir Jeremiah Dickson (acting)	Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia 1846–1848	The political nature of the office transferred to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
Government offices
New office Now a mostly ceremonial office.	Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia 1848–1852	Succeeded by John Bazalgette

v t e Lieutenant governors of Prince Edward Island
Crown Colony of Prince Edward Island (1769–1873)	Patterson Fanning DesBarres Townshend Smith Ready Maxwell A. W. Young Wright Harvey FitzRoy Huntley Campbell Lane Bannerman Daly C. Young Dundas Hodgson
Province of Prince Edward Island (1873–present)	Robinson Hodgson Haviland A. Macdonald Carvell Howlan McIntyre D. A. MacKinnon Rogers C. Macdonald M. MacKinnon Heartz Dalton de Blois LePage J. A. Bernard Prowse Hyndman W. J. MacDonald MacKay Bennett Doiron MacPhail Reid Clements L. Bernard Hagerman Lewis Perry

v t e Lieutenant governors of New Brunswick
Post-Confederation (1867–present)	Doyle Harding L. Wilmot Tilley Chandler R. Wilmot Tilley Boyd Fraser McClelan Snowball Tweedie Wood Ganong Pugsley Todd McLean M. MacLaren Clark D. MacLaren O'Brien McNair Bird Robichaud Stanley Finn McCain Trenholme Counsell Chiasson Nicholas Roy-Vienneau Murphy
Governors before Confederation (1786–1866)	Carleton Smyth Douglas Campbell Harvey Colebrooke Head Manners-Sutton Hamilton-Gordon

v t e Lieutenant-Governors and Governors of Newfoundland
Proprietary Governors (1610–1660)	Guy Mason Hayman Whitbourne Tanfield Wynne Aston Calvert Baltimore Hill Kirke Treworgie
French Governors of Plaisance (1655–1713)	de Kéréon Gargot Du Perron Bellot Palme Pioppe Parat Louis de Pastour de Costebelle de Brouillan de Monic de Subercase Philippe Pastour de Costebelle
Lieutenant-governors of Placentia (1713–1770)	Moody Purcell Gledhill Cope Hamilton Goreham
Commodore-Governors (1729–1825)	Osborn Clinton Falkingham Muskerry Lee Vanbrugh Medley Smith Byng Smith Hardy Edwards Douglas Watson Rodney Drake Bonfoy Dorrill Edwards Webb Graves Palliser Byron Shuldham Duff Montagu Edwards Campbell Elliot Milbanke King Wallace Waldegrave Pole Gambier Gower Holloway Duckworth Keats Pickmore Hamilton
Civil Governors (1825–1855)	Cochrane Prescott Harvey Law Le Marchant Hamilton
Colonial Governors (1855–1907)	Darling Bannerman Musgrave Hill Glover Maxse Glover Des Vœux Blake O'Brien Murray McCallum Boyle MacGregor
Dominion Governors (1907–1934)	MacGregor Williams Davidson Harris Allardyce Middleton Anderson
Commission Governors (1934–1949)	Anderson Walwyn Macdonald
Lieutenant Governors (1949–present)	Walsh Outerbridge Macpherson O'Dea Harnum Winter Paddon McGrath Russell House Roberts Crosbie Fagan Foote Aylward

v t e Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
List of lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia
Governors at Annapolis Royal (1710–1749)	Vetch Hobby Caulfeild Nicholson Caulfeild Vetch Caulfeild Philipps Doucett Armstrong Cosby Mascarene
Governors at Halifax (1749–1786)	Cornwallis Hopson Lawrence Ellis Belcher Wilmot W. Campbell Green Francklin Legge Francklin Arbuthnot Hughes Hamond Parr Fanning
Lieutenant-governors of Cape Breton Island (1784–1820)	Desbarres Macarmick Mathews Ogilvie Murray Despard Nepean Swayne Ainslie
Lieutenant-governors of Nova Scotia before responsible government (1786–1848)	Parr Bulkeley Wentworth Prévost (Croke) Sherbrooke Smyth Dalhousie Kempt Jeffrey Maitland Jeffrey C. Campbell Falkland Dickson Harvey
Lieutenant-governors between responsible government and Confederation (1848–1867)	Harvey Bazalgette Le Marchant Phipps Doyle MacDonnell Doyle Williams
Post-Confederation (1867–present)	Williams Doyle Howe Archibald Richey McLelan Daly Jones D. Fraser McGregor MacKeen M. Grant Douglas Tory Stanfield Covert Irwin Mathers Kendall McCurdy A. Fraser Plow MacKeen Oland Gosse Shaffner Abraham Crouse Kinley Freeman Francis J. Grant LeBlanc
Lieutenant-governors who served in the absence of governors are listed in parentheses. Acting administrators are listed in italics.

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