Years of service 1846 - 1893 Service/branch British Army Name Lothian Nicholson Rank Lieutenant-general | Died June 27, 1893 Allegiance United Kingdom Awards Order of the Bath | |
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Born 19 January 1827 ( 1827-01-19 ) Battles/wars Crimean War
Indian Mutiny Battles and wars Crimean War, Indian Rebellion of 1857 | ||
Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson KCB (19 January 1827 – 27 June 1893) was Governor of Gibraltar.
History
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. Then in 1857 he went to Calcutta to help suppress the Indian Mutiny. He was present at the capture of Lucknow.
He was appointed to command the Royal Engineers in the London District in 1861 and then the Royal Engineers in Gibraltar from 1868. Later that year he became Assistant Adjutant-General for the Royal Engineers in Ireland.
In 1878 he was made Lieutenant Governor of Jersey and in 1886 he was made Inspector-General of Fortifications. In 1891 he became Governor of Gibraltar: he died in office in 1893 and is buried in North Front Cemetery there.