# Lothian Nicholson

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| honorific_prefix   = [Lieutenant-General](/source/Lieutenant_general_(United_Kingdom))
| name               = Sir Lothian Nicholson
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}}
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| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=y|1893|6|27|1827|1|19}}
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| allegiance         = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom)
| branch             = 23px [British Army](/source/British_Army)
| service_years      = 1846–1893
| rank               = [Lieutenant-General](/source/Lieutenant-General_(United_Kingdom))
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| battles            = {{unbulleted list| [Crimean War](/source/Crimean_War) | [Indian Mutiny](/source/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857)}}
| awards             = [Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath](/source/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath)
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[Lieutenant-General](/source/Lieutenant-General_(United_Kingdom)) '''Sir Lothian Nicholson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (19 January 1827 &ndash; 27 June 1893) was [Governor of Gibraltar](/source/Governor_of_Gibraltar).

==History==
He was the son of [George Thomas Nicholson](/source/George_Thomas_Nicholson) and his wife Anne Elizabeth Smith, daughter of [William Smith](/source/William_Smith_(abolitionist)). Educated at Mr Malleson's School in [Hove](/source/Hove) and at the [Royal Military Academy, Woolwich](/source/Royal_Military_Academy%2C_Woolwich), Nicholson was [commissioned](/source/Officer_(armed_forces)) into the [Royal Corps of Engineers](/source/Royal_Corps_of_Engineers) in 1846. In 1855 he was sent to the [Crimean War](/source/Crimean_War) where he took part in the [Siege of Sevastopol](/source/Siege_of_Sevastopol_(1854%E2%80%931855)).<ref name="odnb">{{cite ODNB|id=20144|first=Roger T.|last=Stearn|title=Nicholson, Sir Lothian}}</ref>

In 1857 Nicholson went to [Calcutta](/source/Calcutta) to help suppress the [Indian Rebellion](/source/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857).<ref name=odnb/> He was present at the capture of [Lucknow](/source/Lucknow).<ref>{{cite book| author = Edward Talbot Thackeray| title = Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal Engineers| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mCA4CDEqr54C&pg=PA66| year = 2009| publisher = BiblioBazaar| isbn = 978-1-110-03794-0| page = 66 }}</ref>

He was appointed to command the Royal Engineers in the [London](/source/London) District in 1861 and then the Royal Engineers in [Gibraltar](/source/Gibraltar) from 1868.<ref name=odnb/> Later that year he became Assistant Adjutant-General for the Royal Engineers in [Ireland](/source/Ireland).<ref name=odnb/>

In 1878 he was made [Lieutenant Governor of Jersey](/source/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Jersey) and in 1886 he was made [Inspector-General of Fortifications](/source/Inspector-General_of_Fortifications).<ref name=odnb/> In 1891 he became [Governor of Gibraltar](/source/Governor_of_Gibraltar): he died in office in 1893<ref name=odnb/> and is buried in North Front Cemetery there.<ref>[http://www.aboutourrock.com/sites/nfcemetery.htm North Front Cemetery] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831102730/http://www.aboutourrock.com/sites/nfcemetery.htm |date=31 August 2012 }}</ref>

His children included Major-General [Sir Cecil Lothian Nicholson](/source/Lothian_Nicholson_(British_Army_officer%2C_died_1933)), who commanded a division in the [First World War](/source/World_War_I), and Admiral [Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson](/source/Douglas_Nicholson), who commanded several battle squadrons in the First World War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.townsley.info/Strangeway/GedSite/g3/p2684.htm#i134177|title=General Sir Lothian Nicholson|publisher=Townsley|accessdate=31 May 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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{{succession box | title=[Governor of Gibraltar](/source/Governor_of_Gibraltar) | before=[Sir Leicester Smyth](/source/Leicester_Smyth) | after=[Sir Robert Biddulph](/source/Robert_Biddulph_(British_Army_officer)) | years=1891–1893}}
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