Frederick George Heriot CB JP (11 January 1786 – 30 December 1843) was a British army officer, who fought in the War of 1812 and subsequently became a landowner and administrator in Canada.

[1][2] He entered the army in 1801 as Ensign in the 49th Regiment of Foot (whose commanding officer was the then Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Brock).

[2] When war broke out with the United States, he was appointed second in command of the Canadian Voltigeurs with the acting rank of Major.

[2][3] After the war, he resigned from the army and instead became the Administrator for the settlement of discharged soldiers in the valley of the Saint-François River in Lower Canada, which would become Drummondville, Quebec.

[2][3] He died at Comfort Hall in Drummondville on December 30, 1843 from typhoid fever, aged 57.