Lieutenant-General Sir John George des Reaux Swayne KCB CBE (3 July 1890 – 16 December 1964) was a senior British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of South-Eastern Command during the Second World War.

Born the son of William Swayne, the Bishop of Lincoln,[2] Swayne, after being educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Oxford, was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry in 1911.

[3] He was selected to be Commanding Officer (CO) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in 1935 and chief instructor at the Staff College, Camberley in 1937.

[3] He served in the Second World War, initially as head of the British Military Mission to the French Grand Quartier Général (GQG) and then as general officer commanding 4th Division from 1941.

[3] His final appointment was as chief of the General Staff in India in 1944; he retired in 1946.