Lothian Nicholson [SEP] place of death
Lothian Nicholson
Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson (19 January 1827 – 27 June 1893) was Governor of Gibraltar.
History.
He was the son of George Thomas Nicholson and his wife Anne Elizabeth Smith, daughter of William Smith. Educated at Mr Malleson's School in Hove and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Nicholson was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Engineers in 1846. In 1855 he was sent to the Crimean War where he took part in the Siege of Sevastopol.
In 1857 Nicholson went
Elizabeth Smith, daughter of William Smith. Of their children, Marianne, the elder daughter, married Douglas Strutt Galton in 1851. Laura Maria, the younger daughter, married in 1848 John Bonham Carter.
The sons were:
- Samuel Nicholson, the eldest.
- William Smith Nicholson, second son, an army officer, married in 1849 Charlotte Elizabeth Miller, daughter of Sir Thomas Miller, 6th Baronet.
- George Henry Nicholson, called to the bar in 1844.
- Lothian Nicholson.