Bishop was born in
Plymstock,
Devon, the eldest child of Walter Edward Bishop and Eliza Knowles. He was educated at
Plymouth College and the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the
Dorset Regiment and served in India from 1919 to 1925. He also saw service in Mesopotamia and Palestine. After that he was in the
War Office and the
Colonial Office. Sir Alec died in 1984 in
Hastings,
East Sussex, aged 86. ==References==