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Sir Lothian Nicholson (19 January 1827 – 27 June 1893) was

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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

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and at the

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Si ...

, Nicholson was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Engineers in 1846. In 1855 he was sent to the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included t ...

where he took part in the Siege of Sevastopol. In 1857 Nicholson went to

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to help suppress the

Indian Rebellion The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the for ...

. He was present at the capture of

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. He was appointed to command the Royal Engineers in the

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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

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. In 1878 he was made

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

: he died in office in 1893 and is buried in North Front Cemetery there. His children included General Sir Cecil Lothian Nicholson, who commanded a division in the

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, and Admiral Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson, who commanded several battle squadrons in the First World War.

References

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