Summary
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.
Sir Miles Nightingall | |
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 Memorial to General Sir Miles Nightingall in Gloucester Cathedral | |
| Born | 25 December 1768[1] |
| Died | 12 September 1829[1] |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  British Army |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held | Bombay Army |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Military career edit
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] 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.[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 edit
- ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)
- ^ a b c d Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Bongiorno, Frank (2009). Clune, David; Turner, Ken (eds.). The Governors of New South Wales. The Federation Press. pp. 109–110. ISBN 9781862877436.
- ^ Great Britain India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List. Vol. I. Harrison. p. 127. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
- ^ Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 313–314. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.