John Ayscough
John Ayscough was Chief [Justice of Jamaica] in 1724.
Ayscough also served as Acting Governor of the Colony of Jamaica from 1726 to 1728 and 1734–5, when the island was embroiled in fighting the Maroons in the First [Maroon War]. He was unsuccessful in his attempts to subdue the Jamaican Maroons. He died in 1735, during his second term as acting governor.