Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Biddulph, Michael Anthony Shrapnel
BIDDULPH, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Michael Anthony Shrapnel, K.C.B., is the second son of the late Rev. Thomas Shrapnel Biddulph, of Amroth Castle, Pembrokeshire, sometime Prebendary of Brecknock, by Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. James Stillingfleet, Prebendary of Worcester, and was born in 1825. He was educated at Woolwich, and entered the Royal Artillery in 1843 as a second lieutenant. He was promoted to first lieutenant in the following year; became captain in 1850, brevet major in 1854, brevet lieutenant-colonel in 1856, colonel in 1874, major-general in 1877, and lieutenant-general in 1881. General Biddulph served throughout the Eastern campaign of 1854–55, including the battles of Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, and the siege and fall of Sebastopol. He was Deputy Adjutant-General of Artillery in India from 1868 to 1871, and in 1876 he was appointed Brigadier-General in command of the Rohilkund district; he also commanded the Quettah field force in Afghanistan in 1878–9. He was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath (military division) in 1873, and promoted to a Knight Commandership of that Order in 1879. In 1881 he was appointed to the divisional staff of the army in Bengal. Sir Michael Biddulph married, in 1857, Katharine, daughter of Captain Stamati, Commandant of Balaclava.