Alec Bishop

Major-General Sir Alec Bishop KCMG, CB, CVO, OBE was a British soldier and administrator. He died in 1984 aged 86.

Alec Bishop was educated at Plymouth College and at Sandhurst; he was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment and served in India from 1919 to 1925. He also saw service in Mesopotamia and Palestine. After that he was in the War Office and the Colonial Office. In the 2nd World War he served in East Africa, West Africa and North Africa but in 1944-45 was Director of Quartering at the War Office. In 1945 he became chief of information services and public relations of the Control Commission in Germany; from 1946 to 1948 he was deputy chief of staff and from 1948 to 1950 regional commissioner for North Rhine Westphalia. From 1962 to 1964 he was director of information services and cultural relations at the Commonwealth Relations Office and in 1964-65 British High Commissioner in Cyprus.