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Sir John Bisset|1777|1854| Sir John Bisset (born 1777 died 1854), commissary-general, served in the commissariat at home from 1795 to 1800, in Germany from May 1800 to June 1802, at home from 1802 to 1806, in South. America in 1800-7, and at the Scheldt in 1809. He was appointed commissary-general in Spain in 1811, and had charge of the commissariat of the Duke of Wellngton's army at one of the most important periods of the Peninsular war, before and atter the battle of Salamanca. Bisset, who was made a knight-bachelor and knight-commander of the Guelphic order in 1830, was the author of a small work entitled 'Memoranda regarding the Duties of the Commissariat on Field Service abroad' (London, 1816). He was made Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bathin 1850. He died at Perth, N.B., on 3 April 1854. [War Office Records; Report Select Comm. on Army and Ordnance Expenditure (Commissariat), 1850; Perth Advertiser, April l854.]

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