Lothian Nicholson
Sir Lothian Nicholson | |
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
KCB (19 January 1827 – 27 June 1893) was Governor of Gibraltar
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History
He was the son of
Royal Corps of Engineers in 1846. In 1855 he was sent to the Crimean War where he took part in the Siege of Sevastopol.[1]
In 1857 Nicholson went to
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
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]
His children included Major-General Sir Cecil Lothian Nicholson, who commanded a division in the First World War, and Admiral Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson, who commanded several battle squadrons in the First World War.[4]
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20144. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-1-110-03794-0.
- ^ North Front Cemetery Archived 31 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "General Sir Lothian Nicholson". Townsley. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
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