Miles Nightingall

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = General | name = Sir Miles Nightingall | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} | image = Memorial to General Sir Miles Nightingall in Gloucester Cathedral.JPG | caption = Memorial to General Sir Miles Nightingall in Gloucester Cathedral | birth_date = 25 December 1768<ref name="rayment">{{Rayment-hc|e|2|date=March 2012}}</ref> | death_date = 12 September 1829<ref name="rayment">{{Rayment-hc|e|2|date=March 2012}}</ref> | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = | death_place = | burial_coordinates =  | nickname = | allegiance = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | branch = 23px British Army | service_years = | rank = General | unit = | commands = Bombay Army | battles = | awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath | relations = | other_work = }} 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.<ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20195 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]</ref> He arranged the evacuation of Port-au-Prince.<ref name=odnb/> 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.<ref name=odnb/> He was also Military Secretary during Cornwallis' Viceroyalty in India.<ref name=odnb/>

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.<ref>{{cite book |title =The Governors of New South Wales | last=Bongiorno|first=Frank|editor1 = Clune, David| editor2=Turner, Ken | year =2009 | publisher =The Federation Press | pages = 109–110 | isbn =9781862877436}}</ref> Instead in 1811 he took command of the 1st Division in the Anglo-Portuguese Army in the Peninsular War before going again to India, where he was the Commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army from 24 February 1816 to 9 October 1819.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ|author=Great Britain India Office|title=The India List and India Office List|volume=I|year=1819|publisher=Harrison|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ 127]|accessdate=2009-01-08}}</ref> He returned to England in 1819 and was elected at the 1820 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Eye,<ref name="stooks-smith">{{cite book |last=Stooks Smith |first=Henry. |editor=Craig, F. W. S. |editor-link=F. W. S. Craig |title=The Parliaments of England |orig-date=1844-1850 |edition=2nd |year=1973 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=0-900178-13-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/313 313–314] }}</ref> and held the seat until his death in 1829, aged 60.<ref name="rayment" />

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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=John Abercromby}} {{s-ttl|title=C-in-C, Bombay Army|years=1816–1819}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Charles Colville}} |- {{s-bef | before=Sir Alexander Maitland, 1st Baronet}} {{s-ttl | title=Colonel of the 49th (Princess of Wales's Hertfordshire) Regiment | years=1820–1829}} {{s-aft | after=Sir Gordon Drummond}} |- {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef | before = Mark Singleton | before2 = Sir Robert Gifford }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Eye | years = 1820 – 1829 | with = Sir Robert Gifford to 1824 | with2 = Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt from 1824 }} {{s-aft | after = Sir Philip Sidney, Bt | after2 = Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nightingall, Miles}} Category:Commanders-in-chief of Bombay Category:Tory MPs (pre-1834) Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Category:UK MPs 1820–1826 Category:UK MPs 1826–1830 Category:1768 births Category:1829 deaths Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Category:British Army commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Category:British Army generals Category:73rd Regiment of Foot officers Category:British Army personnel of the Peninsular War Category:British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars Category:Burials at Gloucester Cathedral