Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (19 January 1827 – 27 June 1893) was Governor of Gibraltar

Governor of Gibraltar

The Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The Governor is appointed by the British Monarch on the advice of the British Government...

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History

Educated at Mr Malleson's School in Hove

Hove

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 and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Nicholson was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Engineers in 1846. In 1855 he was sent to the Crimean War

Crimean War

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 where he took part in the Siege of Sevastopol. Then in 1857 he went to Calcutta to help suppress the Indian Mutiny

Indian Rebellion of 1857

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. He was present at the capture of Lucknow

Lucknow

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He was appointed to command the Royal Engineers in the London

London

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 District in 1861 and then the Royal Engineers in Gibraltar

Gibraltar

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 from 1868. Later that year he became Assistant Adjutant-General for the Royal Engineers in Ireland

Ireland

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In 1878 he was made Lieutenant Governor of Jersey

Lieutenant Governor of Jersey

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 and in 1886 he was made Inspector-General of Fortifications. In 1891 he became Governor of Gibraltar

Governor of Gibraltar

The Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The Governor is appointed by the British Monarch on the advice of the British Government...

: he died in office in 1893 and is buried in North Front Cemetery there.