Background
Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, on February 8, 1894. He was the third of four children born to William A. and Margaret Bishop.
Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, on February 8, 1894. He was the third of four children born to William A. and Margaret Bishop.
He was educated at the Royal Military College in Kingston.
Bishop entered World War I as a cavalryman, but became an aerial observer in 1915 and completed his training as a pilot in 1917. He was officially credited with 72 German planes shot down, and received numerous decorations, including the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Service Order, and the Military Cross on the same day. He went into the oil and gold-mining business in Canada after the Armistice, but started to fly again in 1934. He became an air vice-marshal in 1936, and an air marshal in 1938, and was director of the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1939 until 1945. He wrote Winged Warfare (1918) and Winged Peace (1944). Air Marshal Bishop died on September 11, 1956, in Palm Beach, Florida.
On 17 October 1917, at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church in Toronto, he married his longtime fiancée, Margaret Eaton Burden, daughter of Mr. C. E. Burdon. They had a son and a daughter.
