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John Wimburn Laurie
John Wimburn Laurie (October 1, 1835 – May 19, 1912) was a soldier and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada for thirty years and then returned to England. He was the father of George Brenton Laurie.
== Military career ==
He was born in London, England, the son of John Laurie and Eliza Helen Collett, and educated at Harrow, Dresden and Sandhurst.〔(''The Canadian men and women of the time a handbook of Canadian biography'', HJ Morgan (1898) )〕 He entered the British Army in 1853 and served in 4th Kings Own Regiment in Crimea (1855) and Mauritius (1857) on his way to India (1858). He served in South Africa (1881). While in Nova Scotia, Laurie also served during the North-West Rebellion of 1885, at which point he was the highest-ranking officer in Canada.〔Prairie Warships: River Navigation in the Northwest Rebellion By Gordon Errett Tolton, p. 129〕 He achieved the rank of Lieutenant General in 1887.
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