Dictionary of Indian Biography/Biddulph, John
BIDDULPH, JOHN (1840–)
Colonel: born July 25, 1840: son of Robert Biddulph, of Ledbury: educated at Westminster: entered the Bengal Cavalry and arrived in India, 1858: served in the mutiny: joined the Indian Staff Corps: A.D.C. to Lord Northbrook when Viceroy, 1872–6: member of the mission to Yarkand, 1873–4: employed on a secret mission to countries beyond Gilgit, 1877: acting A.G.G. Beluchistan, May-Nov., 1882: Political Agent, Bhopawar, 1882: Haraoti and Tonk, 1886: Resident and Commissioner, Ajmir, 1890: Officiating Agent, Beluchistan, 1891: acting Resident at Gwalior, 1892: Resident at Baroda, 1893: reverted to military duty, 1895: author of Tribes of the Hindu Kush, 1880: The Nineteenth and their Times, 1899: Stringer Lawrence, 1901.