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Sir John Palmer Brabazon (13 February 1843 – 20 September 1922) was an Irish soldier.

After education at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a Cornet in the 16th Lancers on 4 February 1862, before purchasing a promotion to Ensign and Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 8 August. He was promoted to Lieutenant and Captain on 10 July 1866, again by purchase. On 26 February 1870 he exchanged his lieutenancy in the Guards for a captaincy in the 69th Regiment of Foot, and retired from the Army later that year.

Rejoined the Army

He was commissioned again as a Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars on 13 June 1874. Brigade-Major Cavalry Brigade, Kuram Field Force, and mentioned in despatches by the Brigade commander Hugh Henry Gough for his services at Matun on 7 January 1879. , for Battle of Peiwar Kotal 1878 by General Massy, advance on Kabul following Charasiab

promoted to Captain, 18 November 1879, antedated to 13 November MID by Gough again brevet Major 2 March 1881

for his service in the Sudan he was promoted brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 21 May 1884 ADC to the Queen, with brevet rank of Colonel, 28 August 1889 Major 10th Hussars, 10 August 1889 half-pay Lieutenant-Colonel, 12 February 1891 Lieutenant-Colonel, 4th Hussars, 13 May 1891

mother died intestate 18 June 1891 and Brabazon and his sister appointed administrators attended funeral of Duke of Clarence (ex-10th Hussars)

CB in the birthday honours, 3 June 1893

organising Imperial Yeomanry, 1900

retired 1901 Brabazon Park sold 1914 Inherited Glencorrib 1903, sold 1921

Nephew John St Clair Campbell adopted surname of Brabazon 1923

Brabazon is mentioned in his role as the Victorian dandy "Bwab" in Chapter 2 of Anthony Powell's 1957 novel At Lady Molly's. Allusion is made to his leaving the Brigade of Guards for a regiment of which he was unable to remember the name but that "they wore green facings and you got to them by Waterloo Station", and his rhotacism.