John Caillaud

Caillaud was commissioned into Onslow's Regiment in 1743.[1] In 1746, during the Jacobite rising, he took part in the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden. In 1752 he was made a Captain in the Madras Army. During the Seven Years' War he was involved with skirmishes with the French.[1]

In 1759 he was made Commander of the Bengal Army.[1] Edmund Burke later claimed that, during the course of the Bengal War, Caillaud had set three official seals to a document expressing an intent to kill Ali Gauhar, the Mughal Crown Prince, allegations that Caillaud strongly denied.[1]

He subsequently became Commander of the Madras Army in which capacity he negotiated a treat with Nazim Ali which guaranteed Nazim Ali military support in return for occupation of the Northern Circars by the East India Company.[1]

In 1775 he retired[2] to Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire and died in December 1812.[1]

In 1763 he married Mary Pechell: they had no children.[1]