John Moultrie (18 January 1729 – 1798) was an English slave owner[1] and politician who served as deputy governor of East Florida in the years before the American Revolutionary War.

He became acting governor when his predecessor, James Grant, was invalided home in 1771 and held the position until 1774.

[2] Moultrie, after practising as a doctor in Charlestown, moved to East Florida in 1767 and became a planter.

Following the Revolutionary War and the loss of Florida by the British, Moultrie moved to England, where he settled at Aston Hall, which his wife had inherited from her father, at Shifnal in Shropshire, and died there in 1798.

In 1809, his daughter Cecilia married the naval officer John Bligh at St Marylebone.