Robert Sloper

Sir Robert Sloper
Sir Robert Sloper
Born	8 May 1729
Died	18 August 1802 (aged 73)
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	General
Commands held	Indian Army
Battles/wars	Second Anglo-Mysore War; Third Anglo-Mysore War
Awards	Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath

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General Sir Robert Sloper KB (8 May 1729 – 18 August 1802) was Commander-in-Chief, India.

Military career[edit]

Educated privately at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire, Sloper was commissioned into the 10th Dragoons being promoted to Major in 1755.^[1] He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1759 and subsequently saw service in Flanders and Germany.^[1] He was appointed Governor of Hurst Castle in 1767.^[2]

In 1778 he was deployed to Ireland and from 1779 he was sent to India seeing service in the Second Anglo-Mysore War as well as the Third Anglo-Mysore War.^[1] In 1785 he became Acting Commander-in-Chief in Madras and from July 1785 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India.^[1] In May 1788 he was invested KB and appointed Governor of Duncannon Fort in 1795. He was promoted to full General in 1796.^[1]

He lived at West Woodhay House at West Woodhay in Berkshire and is buried at St. Martin's Church in East Woodhay in Hampshire.^[3]

Family[edit]

He was married to Jane Willis with whom he had six sons and four daughters.^[4]

References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Biographies of People who worked in British India by Tom and Wendy Dailly
↑ Beatson, Robert. A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland; Or ..., Volume 2. p. 165.
↑ Humphreys Family Tree
↑ Notes & Queries Oxford Journals, 1947

External links[edit]

Military offices
Preceded by George Warde	Colonel of the 14th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons 1778–1797	Succeeded by John Egerton
Preceded by Giles Stibbert	Commander-in-Chief, India 1785–1786	Succeeded by Charles Cornwallis

[dailly-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Biographies of People who worked in British India by Tom and Wendy Dailly

[2] Beatson, Robert. A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland; Or ..., Volume 2. p. 165.

[tree-3] Humphreys Family Tree

[4] Notes & Queries Oxford Journals, 1947

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