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Born the son of Louis de Ligonier, a member of a Huguenot family of Castres in the south of France that had emigrated to England in 1697, and Louise Ligonier ( née du Poncet ), John Legonier was educated in France and Switzerland.

He joined a Regiment in Flanders commanded by Lord Cutts in 1702.