JOHN BURGOYNE 1723-1792. The General's grandson Captain Hugh Burgoyne (1833-1870), who was awarded the Victoria Cross in the Crimean War, was drowned in the shipwreck of HMS Captain in 1870. A ...

General John Burgoyne who fought the Americans at Saratoga and who is buried in the north cloister of the Abbey. Born in Dublin in 1833 he joined the navy in 1847, serving with the fleet in the ...