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

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being promoted to

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in 1755.Biographies of People who worked in British India by Tom and Wendy Dailly
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in 1759 and subsequently saw service in Flanders and Germany. He was appointed

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in 1767. 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

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and from July 1785 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. In May 1788 he was invested KB and appointed

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in 1795. He was promoted to full general in 1796. He lived at

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and is buried at St. Martin's Church in East Woodhay in Hampshire.Humphreys Family Tree
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Family

He was married to Jane Willis with whom he had six sons and four daughters.Notes & Queries
Oxford Journals, 1947

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sloper, Robert 1729 births 1802 deaths British Army generals Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath British Commanders-in-Chief of India 1st King's Dragoon Guards officers 10th Royal Hussars officers British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Mysore War British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Mysore War 14th King's Hussars officers Military personnel from Wiltshire Governors of Hurst Castle