General Sir John William Floyd, 1st Baronet (22 February 1748 – 10 January 1818) was a British Army officer who served as the governor of Gravesend and Tilbury from 1812 to 1818.

[1] He was commissioned on 5 April 1760 as a Cornet in the Eliott's Light Horse, a recently raised regiment which became the 15th The King's Hussars.

[1] He was appointed to command all cavalry and military units on the coast of India by Lord Cornwallis in 1790.

In the Third Anglo-Mysore War, he led British cavalry forces against Tipu Sultan, including a notable defeat in which he lost 300 horses just before the 1791 siege of Bangalore.

He was transferred as colonel to the 8th Light Dragoons on 13 September 1804 and commissioned full General on 1 January 1812.