Robert Sloper
General Sir Robert Sloper KB (8 May 1729 – 18 August 1802) was a British Army officer who became Commander-in-Chief, India. He was privately educated at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire and joined the 10th Dragoons, becoming a major in 1755. In 1759 he was appointed commanding officer of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards and served in Flanders and Germany. He was Governor of Hurst Castle in 1767.
In 1778 he went to Ireland, and from 1779 he served in India, taking part in the Second Anglo-Mysore War and the Third Anglo-Mysore War. In 1785 he was Acting Commander-in-Chief in Madras, and from July 1785 he was Commander-in-Chief, India. In May 1788 he was invested as a Knight Companion of the Bath and in 1795 he became Governor of Duncannon Fort. He was promoted to full general in 1796.
He lived at West Woodhay House in Berkshire and is buried at St. Martin's Church in East Woodhay, Hampshire. He was married to Jane Willis, and they had six sons and four daughters.
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