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BIDDULPH, Gen Sir Robert (1835-1918)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Biddulph

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: BIDDULPH, Gen Sir Robert (1835-1918)

Date(s): Created 1904

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Biddulph | Sir | Robert | 1835-1918 | Knight | General | colonial governor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1835; educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1853; served in the Crimean War, 1854-1856, and was present at the Battle of the Alma, the Battle of Balaclava and the siege of Sebastopol; service in the Indian Mutiny Campaign, 1857-1859; Capt, 1860; Second China War, 1860; Maj, 1861; Lt Col, 1864; Assistant Boundary Commissioner for Reform Act, 1867; private secretary to Rt Hon Edward Cardwell, Secretary of State for War, 1871-1873; Col, 1872; Assistant Adjutant General, War Office, 1873-1878; awarded CB, 1877; HM Commissioner, Constantinople, 1879; High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Cyprus, 1879-1886; created KCMG, 1880; Maj Gen, 1883; appointed GCMG, 1886; Inspector General of Recruiting, 1886-1888; Lt Gen, 1887; Director General of Military Education, 1888-1893; Gen, 1892; Quartermaster General to the Forces, 1893; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar, 1893-1900; created KCB, 1896; appointed GCB, 1899; retired, 1902; Army Purchase Commissioner, 1904; Master Gunner of St James's Park, 1914; died 1918. Publications: Lord Cardwell at the War Office. A history of his administration, 1868-1874 (John Murray, London, 1904).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of single letter from Biddulph to a Mr Fanshawe, 13 Jun 1904, commenting on recent administrative changes at the War Office, in comparison with reforms to the British Army proposed by Edward Cardwell, Viscount Cardwell, Secretary of State for War, 1868-1874.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

single item

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copy presented to the Centre by David Trim, Librarian, Newbold College Library, Bracknell, Berkshire, 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Newbold College Library, Bracknell, Berkshire.

Existence and location of copies:

Copy held by the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, London.

Related material:

Correspondence and papers, 1850-1920, are held by the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich (Ref: MD/1120). The Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, contain Biddulph's letters to John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, 1873-1882 (Ref: MSS Eng a 2013-14, b 2047-49, c 3933-4514, d 2439-92, e 2790-97). Biddulph's correspondence with Sir Austen Henry Layard, 1879-1880, is held by Manuscript Collections, British Library, London (Ref: Add MSS 39026-34, 39133-34 passim).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: GCB, GCMG

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Government departments | Central government | Public administration | Government
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Biddulph | Sir | Robert | 1835-1918 | Knight | General | colonial governor
Cardwell | Edward | 1813-1886 | 1st Viscount Cardwell of Ellerbeck | politician x Cardwell of Ellerbeck | 1st Viscount

Corporate names
British Army
War Office

Places