Miles Nightingall

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Sir Miles Nightingall
Memorial to General Sir Miles Nightingall in Gloucester Cathedral
Born	25 December 1768
Died	12 September 1829
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	General
Commands held	Bombay Army
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

General Sir Miles Nightingall KCB (25 December 1768 – 12 September 1829)^[1] was a British Army officer. He sat in the House of Commons as a Tory^[2] from 1820 to 1829.

Military career

Nightingall entered the army in 1787. He served in India and in England with Lord Cornwallis and was at Puerto Rico with Ralph Abercromby in 1797 and at the San Domingo with Thomas Maitland in December 1797.^[3] He arranged the evacuation of Port-au-Prince.^[3] He commanded the 4th Battalion in Ireland during Cornwallis' Viceroyalty, and was on the staff when the latter went as Ambassador-Extraordinary to France in 1802.^[3] He was also Military Secretary during Cornwallis' Viceroyalty in India.^[3] After serving in New South Wales he went again to India, where he was the Commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army from 24 February 1816 to 9 October 1819.^[4] He returned to England in 1819 and was elected at the 1820 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Eye,^[2] and held the seat until his death in 1829.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)
↑ 2.0 2.1 Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S., ed. The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 313–314. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
↑ Great Britain India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List I. Harrison. p. 127. Retrieved 2009-01-08.

Military offices
Preceded by John Abercromby	C-in-C, Bombay Army 1816–1819	Succeeded by Sir Charles Colville
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Mark Singleton Sir Robert Gifford	Member of Parliament for Eye 1820 – 1829 With: Sir Robert Gifford to 1824 Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt from 1824	Succeeded by Sir Philip Sidney, Bt Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt

Persondata
Name	Nightingall, Miles
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	25 December 1768
Place of birth
Date of death	12 September 1829
Place of death

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