Lieutenant-General Sir John Lanier (died 1692) was an English army officer.
Lanier was wounded and lost an eye while serving under the Duke of Monmouth in France.
[1] In 1685 he raised Lanier's Regiment of Horse or the 2nd Queen's Regiment of Horse, named in honour of Queen Mary, consort of King James II, as part of the response to the Monmouth Rebellion.
[2][3] He declared allegiance to William III and secured Edinburgh Castle for him in 1689.
[1] He was badly wounded at the Battle of Steenkerque in the Netherlands in August 1692 during the Nine Years' War and died shortly afterwards.