Hatchment, St Mary`s Hartley Wintney Hants
Dexter background black.
Within the Order of the Bath, Gules on two serpents intertwined a dove rising, wings displayed and inverted, holding in its beak an olive branch proper(Sloper), impaling, Argent a chevron between three molets sable(Willes).
Crest: A dove rising in its beak an olive branch proper.
Motto: In pace ut sapiens.
Supporters: Dexter, A female figure, in the sinister hand a rod of Aesculapius, in the dexter a mirror. Sinister, A soldier, with shako, blue coat, white breeches, and cross belts, with drawn cutlass in the sinister hand proper.
All on a mantle gules and argent.
For General Sir John Robert Sloper, K.B., who m. Jane dau. of Lord Chief Justice Sir John Willes.
Died: 18 Aug 1802
There is a pencil note on edge of canvas: Put up Aug 5 1803.
Educated privately at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire, Sloper was commissioned into the 10th Dragoons being promoted to Major in 1755. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1759 and subsequently saw service in Flanders and Germany. In 1778 he was deployed to Ireland and from 1779 he was sent to India seeing service in the Second Anglo-Mysore War as well as the Third Anglo-Mysore War. In 1785 he became Acting Commander-in-Chief in Madras and from July 1785 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. He was promoted to full General in 1796.
Hatchment, St Mary`s Hartley Wintney Hants
Dexter background black.
Within the Order of the Bath, Gules on two serpents intertwined a dove rising, wings displayed and inverted, holding in its beak an olive branch proper(Sloper), impaling, Argent a chevron between three molets sable(Willes).
Crest: A dove rising in its beak an olive branch proper.
Motto: In pace ut sapiens.
Supporters: Dexter, A female figure, in the sinister hand a rod of Aesculapius, in the dexter a mirror. Sinister, A soldier, with shako, blue coat, white breeches, and cross belts, with drawn cutlass in the sinister hand proper.
All on a mantle gules and argent.
For General Sir John Robert Sloper, K.B., who m. Jane dau. of Lord Chief Justice Sir John Willes.
Died: 18 Aug 1802
There is a pencil note on edge of canvas: Put up Aug 5 1803.
Educated privately at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire, Sloper was commissioned into the 10th Dragoons being promoted to Major in 1755. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1759 and subsequently saw service in Flanders and Germany. In 1778 he was deployed to Ireland and from 1779 he was sent to India seeing service in the Second Anglo-Mysore War as well as the Third Anglo-Mysore War. In 1785 he became Acting Commander-in-Chief in Madras and from July 1785 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. He was promoted to full General in 1796.