Major-General John Shrimpton was a British Army officer and member of parliament and the Governor of Gibraltar from 1704 to 1707.

Shrimpton joined the Army becoming a Major in the 1st (Queen's Own) Foot Guards.

[1] In 1693, during the Nine Years' War, he was wounded at the Battle of Landen in Flanders.

[1] Archduke Charles VI, acting on the recommendation of Queen Anne, asked Shrimpton to accept an appointment as Governor and he remained there until 1707.

[2] This article about an 18th-century member of the parliament of England (up to 1707) is a stub.