Brigadier General John Macready was a British army officer who served with the Bedfordshire Regiment in Europe in World War I and in India.
Background
His father was Jonathan F. Macready, a son of the celebrated Victorian actor-theatre manager W.C.Macready. Macready was born in London West Queen Anne Saint He trained at the Royal Military College and was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1907.
Career
In the 1911 Census, his rank was Lieutenant. In 1913 he was promoted from Adjutant to Captain in the Bedfordshire Regiment. In 1916 he was awarded the Doctorate.S.O. and the Chevalier de l’Ordre de Leopold.
In 1917, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
From 1933-1937 he was Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion. Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
In 1937 he was appointed Assistant Commandant of Hythe Wing, Small Arms School. From 1939-1940 he was Commanding Officer of 162nd (East Midland) Brigade.
Brigade General Macready married Marguerite Mary Milling (1890-1982).
They had two children: Daphne Lois Macready (better known as the writer Rowena Farre) and Anthony John Lowne Macready. He died in Folkestone, Kent, in 1957.