Robert Sloper
{{Short description|British Army general}}
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General Sir Robert Sloper KB (8 May 1729 – 18 August 1802) was Commander-in-Chief, India.
Military career
Educated privately at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire, Sloper was commissioned into the 10th Dragoons being promoted to major in 1755.[http://kitwithers.fortunecity.com/sloper/sloper.html Biographies of People who worked in British India by Tom and Wendy Dailly] He was appointed commanding officer of 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1759 and subsequently saw service in Flanders and Germany. He was appointed Governor of Hurst Castle in 1767. {{cite book|title=A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland; Or ..., Volume 2|first=Robert|last=Beatson|page=165}}
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. In 1785 he became Acting Commander-in-Chief in Madras and from July 1785 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. In May 1788 he was invested KB and appointed Governor of Duncannon Fort in 1795. He was promoted to full general in 1796.
He lived at West Woodhay House at West Woodhay in Berkshire and is buried at St. Martin's Church in East Woodhay in Hampshire.[http://humphrysfamilytree.com/Hunter/robert.sloper.html Humphreys Family Tree]
Family
He was married to Jane Willis with whom he had six sons and four daughters.[https://archive.today/20120713173457/http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/192/8/173-a Notes & Queries] Oxford Journals, 1947
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Category:19th-century British Army personnel
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Category:Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath
Category:British Commanders-in-Chief of India
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Category:British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Mysore War
Category:British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Mysore War
Category:14th King's Hussars officers