Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Bisshopp (25 June 1783 – c. 16 July 1813) was a

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officer and onetime Member of the

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who came to Canada in 1812 and died in the

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. He was heir to his father Sir Cecil Bisshopp the 8th Baronet Bishopp, of

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in the county of

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(later from 1815 the 12th Baron Zouche of Hayngworth). If he had survived his father, he would have become the 9th Baronet Bisshopp and eventually the 13th Baron Zouche. His mother was Harriet Anne Southwell. He was Cornet in the

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1797-99 before entering the First Foot Guards as an Ensign, the most junior commissioned rank, in 1799. He was subsequently promoted Lieutenant and Captain in 1800, and Major in 1812.
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from 1811 to 1812, not seeking re-election due to his military service in Canada. Bisshopp was designated the inspecting field officer for the militia of

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. This carried the local rank of lieutenant-colonel. He would play an important role in the early war against the Americans in the

. Bisshopp's final action in the war was to lead an

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(now in Buffalo) from

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. The raid was successful but their departure was delayed and he was injured in a counterattack. He died from his injuries a few days later. Bishopp is buried in the Lundy's Lane Battlefield Cemetery in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His father Baron Zouche died on 11 November 1828 at age 74 at

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, without surviving male issue. His younger brother Charles-Cecil,

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, had also died before his father, and was unmarried at his death in

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in 1808 of

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after the frigate HMS ''Muros'' was wrecked whilst endeavouring to destroy some batteries near

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. His father was succeeded in the Baronetcy by a cousin, while the Barony of Zouche fell into

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between Colonel Bisshopp's two sisters Hon. Harriet Anne Curzon and Katherine Annabella, Lady Brooke-Pechell.

References

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