Robert Biddulph (British Army officer)

General Sir Robert Biddulph GCB GCMG (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. 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. 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.

Biddulph's Gate in Famagusta in Cyprus is named after him.

Family
In 1864 he married Sophia Lambert and together they went on to have four sons and six daughters.