Lynedoch, Thomas Graham, 1st Baron (1748–1843)

British general. He was aide-de-camp to Sir John Moore in Sweden and in Spain, and was present at the Corunna retreat. His most memorable victory was the defeat of the French at Barossa in March 1811. After that, he became second-in-command to Wellington for the remainder of the Peninsular War.

In 1793 he had joined Hood's fleet in the Mediterranean as a volunteer. On returning home he raised a battalion known as the ‘Perthshire Volunteers’. He became brevet-colonel in 1796, and was appointed British military commissioner with the Austrian army in Italy in 1798. He was created Baron Lynedoch of Balgowan in 1814.