Colonel William Baume Capper CVO (6 February 1856 – 15 January 1934) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.
William Capper | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 February 1856 Bath, Somerset, England |
| Died | 15 January 1934 (aged 77) Bath, Somerset, England |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1876–1913 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Commands | Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
| Battles / wars | World War I |
| Awards | Commander of the Royal Victorian Order |
Military career
editCapper was born on 6 February 1856 at Newbridge Hill, Bath, Somerset,[1] his father William Copeland Capper having been in the Bengal Civil Service. Educated at Haileybury,[2] Capper was commissioned into the 85th Regiment of Foot in 1876[3] and subsequently played cricket for Shropshire[4] in 1882-83 and for Staffordshire.[1] He became adjutant of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1886.[5] He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and in the Mahdist War in Sudan from 1884 to 1885.[6] He was Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst from 1907 to 1911[7] and then served in World War I, following which he was made a CVO in 1919.[6]
Family
editIn 1888 he married Helen Margaret Parry; they had two daughters.[6] He died aged 77 in January 1934 at Newbridge Hill, Bath.[1]
He had three brothers all who served in the Army, one was Major-General Sir Thompson Capper KCMG, CB, DSO who was killed in World War I,[8] and another was Major-General Sir John Edward Capper.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b c Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham. pp. 9, 42. ISBN 1-902171-17-9.Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
- ^ Egypt
- ^ "No. 24292". The London Gazette. 11 February 1876. p. 589.
- ^ Cricket Archive
- ^ "No. 25615". The London Gazette. 10 August 1886. p. 3856.
- ^ a b c Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (page 82)
- ^ "Army Commands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ^ Godden Green War Memorial
- ^ Sir John Edward Capper, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 11 August 2007 (subscription needed)