Major-General Sir John Charles Oakes Marriott, KCVO, CB, DSO & Bar, MC (29 June 1895 – 11 September 1978) was a senior British Army officer who served during the First World War and again in the Second World War.

He was educated at Repton School[5] and later entered the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, from where he graduated and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1914, the year the First World War began.

He remained in the army after the war and during the interwar period, initially serving as a GSO to the military attaché in Washington, D.C.[6] He transferred to the Scots Guards in 1920.

[6] He served with distinction in the Second World War, initially in the Middle East and from 1940 as CO of the 21st Infantry Brigade.

[6] After the war he was promoted to acting major-general on 15 October 1945[13] and became General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Guards Division in Germany in 1945 and Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and GOC London District in 1947; he retired from the army, after a career spanning three decades, in 1950.