John Mullryne (died 6 January 1786) was a British Army colonel who established Bonaventure Plantation in Savannah, Province of Georgia, in 1761.
[1] A supporter of the Crown, he later drew the ire of the colonists after aiding (with the help of his son-in-law Josiah Tattnall Sr.) the escape of James Wright, the British royal governor of the Province of Georgia, through his property during the American Revolutionary War.
[7] John Berendt wrote in his 1994 book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil that a formal dinner party, held by either Mullryne or Tattnall,[8] was in progress when one of the servants informed the host that the roof was ablaze and that nothing could be done to stop it.
The host "rose calmly, clinked his glass, and invited guests to pick up their dinner plates and follow him into the garden", where they ate the remainder of their meals in the glow of the flames.
[1] In February 1776, during the early stages of the Revolutionary War, Mullryne and Tattnall declared their loyalty to George III by assisting in the escape to Cockspur Island of Georgia's newly ousted royal governor, James Wright, to the HMS Scarborough by way of their land in Thunderbolt.