ENSIKLOPEDIA Cari Tekan Enter untuk memulai pencarian cepat. Kembali ke Ensiklopedia Arsip Wikipedia Indonesia Lothian Nicholson Lothian Nicholson Lieutenant-GeneralSir Lothian NicholsonKCBBorn(1827-01-19)19 January 1827Died27 June 1893(1893-06-27) (aged 66)Allegiance United KingdomBranch British ArmyService years1846–1893RankLieutenant-GeneralConflictsCrimean WarIndian MutinyAwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson KCB (19 January 1827 – 27 June 1893) was Governor of Gibraltar. History He was the son of George Thomas Nicholson and his wife Anne Elizabeth Smith, daughter of William Smith. 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. In 1855 he was sent to the Crimean War where he took part in the Siege of Sevastopol.[1] In 1857 Nicholson went to Calcutta to help suppress the Indian Rebellion.[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] 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 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stearn, Roger T. "Nicholson, Sir Lothian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20144. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.) ↑ Edward Talbot Thackeray (2009). Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal Engineers. BiblioBazaar. p. 66. 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. Government offices Preceded bySir William Norcott Lieutenant Governor of Jersey 1878–1883 Succeeded byHenry Wray Preceded bySir Leicester Smyth Governor of Gibraltar 1891–1893 Succeeded bySir Robert Biddulph vteGovernors 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 Irwin Boyd Eliott Boyd Rainsford O'Hara Barnett 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 Davis Steel Bathurst
