{{Short description|British Army general}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = General |name=Nathaniel Stevenson |image=Nathanielstevenson.png |caption= |birth_date=1840 |death_date=1911 |birth_place= |death_place= |burial_place= |burial_label= |nickname= |allegiance=United Kingdom |branch= British Army |service_years=1858–1899 |rank=General |unit= |commands=Northern District |battles= |awards= |relations= |other_work= }} General '''Nathaniel Stevenson''' (1840–1911) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
==Military career== Stevenson was commissioned as an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot in 1858.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22176|page=3904|date=24 August 1858}}</ref> In 1863 he was transferred to the 87th Regiment of Foot.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22701|page=379|date=23 January 1863}}</ref> He was appointed assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general for Cork District in 1880<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24858|page=2646|date=25 June 1880}}</ref> and then, having served as Assistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General on the Staff, he was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in Ireland in 1884.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25407|page=4589|date=24 October 1884}}</ref> He was appointed General Officer Commanding Northern District in 1889, General Officer Commanding North Eastern District later in the year and Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1894.<ref>[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Guernsey.html World Leaders]</ref> It was in that capacity that he went to Westminster Abbey in 1898 to attend former Prime Minister Gladstone's funeral.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26980|page=3849|date=22 June 1898}}</ref>
He was appointed Colonel of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 8 March 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27432|page=3090|date=9 May 1902}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Charles Daniell}} {{s-ttl|title=GOC Northern District|years=1889}} {{s-aft|after=Command divided}} |- {{s-bef|before=New Post}} {{s-ttl|title=GOC North Eastern District|years=1889–1891}} {{s-aft|after=Henry Wilkinson}} |- |- {{succession box|title=Colonel of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers|years=1902–1911|before=William Roberts|after=Sir Archibald James Murray}} |- {{s-gov}} {{succession box | title=Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey | before=Sir Edward Bulwer | after=Michael Saward| years=1894–1899}} {{end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevenson, Nathaniel}} Category:1840 births Category:1911 deaths Category:British Army generals Category:Royal Scots officers Category:87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot officers Category:19th-century British Army personnel