Major-General John Clitherow (13 December 1782 – 14 October 1852) was an army officer, politician and was briefly Lieutenant Governor of Canada West and Canada East (1841). He was born at Essendon, Hertfordshire, England in 1782. John Clitherow enlisted in the British Army in 1799 and served in the Egyptian campaign of 1801 and in the Peninsular War among other assignments. He arrived in British North America in 1838 as commander of Montreal following the Lower Canada Rebellion. He married Miss Christie-Burton, granddaughter of General Gabriel Christie, of Montreal.