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Robert Biddulph (British Army officer)
General Sir Robert Biddulph (26 August 1835 – 18 November 1918) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.
==Military career==
Educated at Twyford School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Biddulph was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1853.〔(Robert Biddulph at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography )〕 He served in the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastopol in 1854.〔 He was Brigade Major during the Siege of Lucknow in 1857.〔
In 1871 he was selected to be Assistant Adjutant-General at the War Office and then in 1879 he succeeded Sir Garnet Wolseley as High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of Cyprus.〔 In 1886 he returned to London to be Inspector-General of Recruiting and two years later became Director-General of Military Education.〔 In 1893 he was briefly Quartermaster-General to the Forces.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://lafayette.org.uk/bid00025.html )〕 Later that year he became Governor of Gibraltar.〔
His final appointment, in 1904, was as Army Purchase Commissioner: in that capacity he abolished the purchase of commissions.〔
He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1899 Birthday Honours. Biddulph's Gate in Famagusta in Cyprus is named after him.〔(Italian Renaissance House and Biddulph Gate Famagusta, North Cyprus )〕
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