General Sir John Ross GCB DL (18 March 1829 – 5 January 1905) was a soldier of the British Army and the Bengal Army who fought in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny and later commanded British forces in Canada.

Born at Stone House, Hayton, Carlisle, the son of Field Marshal Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross (1779–1868) by his marriage to Elizabeth Graham, a daughter of Richard Graham, Ross was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Rifle Brigade in 1846.

Between 1857 and 1858 in the Indian Mutiny he was at Cawnpore and Lucknow, and in 1863–64 he fought in the North West Frontier Campaign.

[2][3] He was appointed colonel of the Leicestershire Regiment on 6 Feb. 1895, transferring to be colonel-commandant of the 3rd Battalion, the Rifle Brigade from 29 July 1903 to his death.

In retirement he lived at his birthplace, Stone House, Hayton, Cumberland,[2] where his grounds were said to contain an exceptionally impressive evergreen oak.