Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB (sometimes spelled Geoffrey, or Jeffrey, he himself spelled his name as Jeffery) (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) serves as an officer in the British Army and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

Amherst is best known as one of the victors of the French and Indian War, when he conquers Louisbourg, Quebec City and Montreal.

He is also the first British Governor General in the territories that eventually become Canada.

Numerous places and streets are named for him, both in Canada and the United States.

Amherst is also infamous for catalyzing the first modern historical incidents of biological warfare, as he endorses and commands giving blankets infected with smallpox to American Indians.

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