page_title: John Huske
hierarchical_section_title: John Huske
caption_attribution_description: English: Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, Mayfair, London W1, seen from the west
context_page_description: Lieutenant General John Huske was a British military officer, whose active service began in 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession, and ended in 1748.
  During his early career, he was a close associate of the Earl of Cadogan and the Duke of Marlborough. Between 1715 and 1720, he was also employed as a British political and diplomatic agent, primarily involved in anti-Jacobite operations.
  He commanded a brigade at Dettingen; during the Jacobite rising of 1745, he fought at Falkirk Muir and Culloden. Promoted major-general in 1743, his active career finished when the War of the Austrian Succession ended in 1748.
  He never married and died in London on 18 January 1761. His brother Ellis emigrated to North America; one of his relatives, another John Huske, was a delegate to the 1789 North Carolina Constitutional Convention.
context_section_description: Lieutenant General John Huske (ca 1692 – 18 January 1761) was a British military officer, whose active service began in 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession, and ended in 1748.
  During his early career, he was a close associate of the Earl of Cadogan and the Duke of Marlborough. Between 1715 and 1720, he was also employed as a British political and diplomatic agent, primarily involved in anti-Jacobite operations.
  He commanded a brigade at Dettingen; during the Jacobite rising of 1745, he fought at Falkirk Muir and Culloden. Promoted major-general in 1743, his active career finished when the War of the Austrian Succession ended in 1748.
  He never married and died in London on 18 January 1761. His brother Ellis emigrated to North America; one of his relatives, another John Huske, was a delegate to the 1789 North Carolina Constitutional Convention.
caption: Grosvenor Chapel, in Audley Street where Huske was buried
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