Miles Nightingall
Sir Miles Nightingall
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Memorial to General Sir Miles Nightingall in Gloucester Cathedral
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Born | 25 December 1768[1] |
Died | 12 September 1829[1] |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
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British Army |
Rank | General |
Commands held | Bombay Army |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
General Sir Miles Nightingall KCB (25 December 1768 – 12 September 1829) was a British Army officer. He sat in the House of Commons as a Tory from 1820 to 1829.
Military career
Nightingall entered the army in 1787. He served in India and in England with Lord Cornwallis and was at Puerto Rico with Ralph Abercromby in 1797 and at the San Domingo with Thomas Maitland in December 1797.[2] He arranged the evacuation of Port-au-Prince.[2] He commanded the 4th Battalion in Ireland during Cornwallis' Viceroyalty, and was on the staff when the latter went as Ambassador-Extraordinary to France in 1802.[2] He was also Military Secretary during Cornwallis' Viceroyalty in India.[2]
In the mid-1800s he was stationed in the British penal colony of New South Wales, where he commanded the 73rd Regiment. In 1809 he declined an offer to become Governor,[3] and instead went again to India, where he was the Commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army from 24 February 1816 to 9 October 1819.[4] He returned to England in 1819 and was elected at the 1820 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Eye,[5] and held the seat until his death in 1829, aged 60.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Preceded by | C-in-C, Bombay Army 1816–1819 |
Succeeded by Sir Charles Colville |
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Eye 1820 – 1829 With: Sir Robert Gifford to 1824 Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt from 1824 |
Succeeded by Sir Philip Sidney, Bt Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt |
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