William Bartholomew

General Sir William Henry Bartholomew, (16 March 1877 – 31 December 1962) was a senior British Army officer during the 1930s and a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery.

Military career Educated at Newton College, South Devon and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Bartholomew was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 23 March 1897. He was promoted to lieutenant on 23 March 1900, and to captain on 22 March 1902. After serving as an adjutant in July 1906, he attended the Staff College, Quetta from 1909 to 1910.

Bartholomew served in the First World War initially as a General Staff Officer in 4th Division, and then, on 20 December 1916, he received a temporary assignment to the War Office to serve there as a GSO1, remaining seconded from the RA whilst so employed. He was then a brigadier general on the General Staff of XX Corps from 1917 and on the General Staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from 1918. moving on to be Director of Recruiting and Organisation at the War Office in 1927. to 1947.

After the Army In retirement, Bartholomew served as North Eastern Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence between 1940 and 1945. He donated over £20,000 in 1921 to the Public Dispensary and Hospital, Leeds; later becoming world-renowned St James' Teaching Hospital.