Lothian Nicholson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sir Lothian Nicholson
Lt. Gen. Sir Lothian Nicholson
Born	(1827-01-19)19 January 1827
Died	27 June 1893(1893-06-27) (aged 66)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Battles/wars	Crimean War Indian Mutiny
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson KCB (19 January 1827 – 27 June 1893) was Governor of Gibraltar.

History

Educated at Mr Malleson's School in Hove and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Nicholson was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Engineers in 1846.^[1] In 1855 he was sent to the Crimean War where he took part in the Siege of Sevastopol.^[1] Then in 1857 he went to Calcutta to help suppress the Indian Mutiny.^[1] He was present at the capture of Lucknow.^[2]

He was appointed to command the Royal Engineers in the London District in 1861 and then the Royal Engineers in Gibraltar from 1868.^[1] Later that year he became Assistant Adjutant-General for the Royal Engineers in Ireland.^[1]

In 1878 he was made Lieutenant Governor of Jersey and in 1886 he was made Inspector-General of Fortifications.^[1] In 1891 he became Governor of Gibraltar: he died in office in 1893^[1] and is buried in North Front Cemetery there.^[3]

References

Government offices
Preceded by Sir William Norcott	Lieutenant Governor of Jersey 1878–1883	Succeeded by Henry Wray
Preceded by Sir Leicester Smyth	Governor of Gibraltar 1891 – 1893	Succeeded by Sir Robert Biddulph

v t e Governors of Gibraltar

	Spanish period (1462-1704) De Salinas Habsburg occupation (1704) Hesse-Darmstadt Nugent Shrimpton Elliott Stanwix Treaty of Utrecht (1713) Portmore Kane Clayton Sabine Hargrave Bland Fowke Tyrawley Home Cornwallis Boyd Eliott Boyd Rainsford O'Hara Kent and Strathearn Fox Dalrymple Cradock Campbell Don Chatham Don Crown colony (1830) Houston Woodford Wilson Gardiner Fergusson Codrington Airey Williams Napier of Magdala Adye Hardinge Smyth Nicholson Biddulph White Forestier-Walker Hunter Miles Smith-Dorrien Monro Godley Harington Ironside Liddell Gort Mason-Macfarlane Eastwood Anderson MacMillan Redman Keightley Ward Lathbury Begg Grandy Jackson British dependent territory (1981) Williams Terry Reffell Chapple White Luce Durie British Overseas Territory (2002) Richards Fulton Johns Dutton

Persondata
Name	Nicholson, Lothian
Alternative names
Short description	British Army general
Date of birth	19 January 1827
Place of birth
Date of death	27 June 1893
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.