Robert was the twelfth of the fourteen children of James Simpson Bishop and his wife Ann Bowers of Wicken, Cambridgeshire.
Robert appears as a seven month old infant on the 1881 Census for Wicken, living with his parents and older siblings on the High Street.
Born:
1880, Burwell, Cambridgeshire.
Died:
17th January 1971.
Buried:
with his wife in Wicken cemetery, Cambridgeshire.