forces to a winter in the field in 1854. He became colonel commandant of the Royal Engineers on 22 November 1854 and, following his recall to England in February 1855, he was promoted to full general on 5 September 1855. He was created a baronet on 18 April 1856 and awarded the French Legion of Honour, 2nd Class on 2 August 1856. He was appointed one of the Colonels Commandant of the Royal Engineers in 1854, and also served as honorary colonel of 1st Middlesex Engineer Volunteer Corps and of the 1st Lancashire Engineer Volunteer Corps. Burgoyne was appointed Constable of the Tower in April 1865 and promoted to field marshal on his retirement on 1 January 1868. He died at Kensington in London on 7 October 1871 and is buried in the nearby Brompton Cemetery, London. Castle Hill Fort in Dover was renamed Fort Burgoyne in memory of him. Family In 1821 Burgoyne married Charlotte Rose; they had a son, (Captain Hugh Talbot Burgoyne VC), and seven daughters. One of their grand-children was the preacher, Charles Spurgeon. References Footnotes Bibliography Further reading External links Sir John Burgoyne – obituary from The Times (1871) 1782 births 1871 deaths Royal Engineers officers Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom British field marshals Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Lord-Lieutenants of the Tower Hamlets British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars British Army personnel of the War of 1812 British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars British Army personnel of the Crimean War Burials at Brompton Cemetery Recipients of the Army Gold Cross Fellows of the Royal Society 19th-century British Army personnel People educated at Eton College Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich Constables of the Tower of London