William Nott

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This article is about the British general. For the English bookbinder, see William Nott (bookbinder).

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Statue in Nott Square, Carmarthen

British India.[1]

Early life

Nott was born in 1782, near

Indian army and went to India in 1800 when under Company rule in India it was a key component of the growing British Empire.[citation needed
]

Military history

In 1825, Nott was promoted to the command of his regiment of native infantry; and in 1838, on the outbreak of the

First Afghan war, he was appointed to the command of a brigade. From April to October 1839 he was in command of the troops left at Quetta, where he rendered valuable service. In November 1840 he captured Khelat, and in the following year compelled Akbar Khan
and other tribal chiefs to submit to the British.

On receiving the news of the rising of the Afghans at

Calcutta to maintain the garrison of Kandahar with a view to avenging the massacre and the murder of Macnaghten. In March he inflicted a severe defeat on the enemy near Kandahar, and in May drove them with heavy loss out of the Baba Wali Pass
.

In July, he received orders from

Somnath ; on the 17th he joined Pollock at Kabul. The combined army recrossed the Sutlej
in December.

Honours and pension

Nott's services were highly commended; he was immediately appointed

East India Company voted him a pension of £1,000 per annum (equivalent to £83,000 pa in 2008[3]
).

He died at Carmarthen on 1 January 1845, aged 62.[citation needed]

Family

Nott was married twice. Firstly he wed Letitia Swinhoe with whom he had five children, including Charlotte, who married John Bower and was the father of Sir William Nott-Bower.

He married his second, much younger, wife in 1843. She was née Rosa Wilson Dore (died 1901), daughter of Major P. L. Dore. After her husband’s death in 1845, she remarried Thomas Twisden Hodges, MP. When her second husband died in 1865 she resumed the name Lady Nott.[4]

Statue of General Nott in Carmarthen

A statue of General Nott was erected in his home town of

Grade II Listed status.[5] It was based on a portrait of Nott by the painter Thomas Brigstocke, who was also born in the town.[6] According to the PMSA, "the bronze statue was cast from cannon captured at the Battle of Maharajpur. Queen Victoria gave 200 guineas to the memorial fund. The statue occupies the site of the market cross which was dismantled when the market was resited and Nott Square created in 1846."[5]

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Vetch, Robert Hamilton (1895). "Nott, William" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ a b Lloyd (1958), pg 686.
  3. ^ Measuring Worth
  4. ^ "Obituary - Lady Nott". The Times. No. 36544. London. 27 August 1901. p. 4.
  5. ^ a b "Public Monument and Sculpture Association on General Nott Statue from National Recording Project". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  6. ^ Stocqueler, Joachim Hayward, ed. (1854). "The Life of Sir William Nott". Memoirs and correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott, Volume 2. Hurst and Blackett. p. 296.

Bibliography

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