William Capper
{{Short description|British Army officer (1856–1934)}}
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Colonel William Baume Capper CVO (6 February 1856 – 15 January 1934) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.
Military career
Capper was born on 6 February 1856 at Newbridge Hill, Bath, Somerset,{{cite book|last=Percival|first=Tony|title=Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998|year=1999|publisher=A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham|pages=9, 42|isbn=1-902171-17-9}}Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. his father William Copeland Capper having been in the Bengal Civil Service. Educated at Haileybury,{{Cite web |url=http://www.haileybury.com/medals/egypt.htm |title=Egypt |access-date=17 July 2011 |archive-date=20 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320011947/http://www.haileybury.com/medals/egypt.htm |url-status=dead }} Capper was commissioned into the 85th Regiment of Foot in 1876{{London Gazette|issue=24292|page=589|date=11 February 1876}} and subsequently played cricket for Shropshire[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/144/144481/144481.html Cricket Archive] in 1882-83 and for Staffordshire.
He became adjutant of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1886.{{London Gazette|issue=25615|page=3856|date=10 August 1886}} He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and in the Mahdist War in Sudan from 1884 to 1885.[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/arthur-charles-fox-davies/armorial-families--a-directory-of-gentlemen-of-coat-armour-volume-1-dxo/page-82-armorial-families--a-directory-of-gentlemen-of-coat-armour-volume-1-dxo.shtml Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (page 82)]
He was director of military education in India in December 1902.{{London Gazette|issue=27553|page=3152|date=19 May 1903}} He was commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from January 1907{{London Gazette|issue=27991|page=743|date=1 February 1907}} to 1911{{Cite web |url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |title=Army Commands |access-date=17 July 2011 |archive-date=5 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |url-status=dead }} and then served in World War I, following which he was made a CVO in 1919.
Family
In 1888 he married Helen Margaret Parry; they had two daughters. He died aged 77 in January 1934 at Newbridge Hill, Bath.
He had three brothers all who served in the Army, one was Major-General Sir Thompson Capper KCMG, CB, DSO who was killed in World War I,[http://www.kentfallen.com/PDF%20REPORTS/GODDEN%20GREEN.pdf Godden Green War Memorial] and another was Major-General Sir John Edward Capper.[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/41054 Sir John Edward Capper], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 11 August 2007 (subscription needed)
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Category:British Army colonels
Category:Military personnel from Bath, Somerset
Category:Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Category:58th Regiment of Foot officers
Category:Commandants of Sandhurst
Category:King's Shropshire Light Infantry officers
Category:British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War
Category:British Army personnel of the Mahdist War
Category:British Army personnel of the Second Anglo-Burmese War