John Le Marchant may refer to:
- John Le Marchant (British Army cavalry officer) (1766–1812), British Army cavalry major-general killed at Salamanca
- Sir John Le Marchant (colonial administrator) (1803–1874), British Army general and Governor of Newfoundland, son of the above
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or marchant:
“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
That dying chose the living world for text
And never could have rested in the tomb
But that, long travelling, he had come
Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
In a most desolate stony place....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“A marchant was therwith a forked berd,
In mottelee, and hye on horse he sat,
Upon his heed a Flaundryssh bevere hat,
His bootes clasped faire and fetisly.
His resons he spak ful solempnely,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)