Miles Nightingall
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Sir Miles Nightingall KCB
was the Commander-in-chief
of Bombay from 24 February 1816 to 9 October 1819. He sat in the House of Commons as a Tory from 1820 to 1829.
Nightingall entered the army in 1787. He served in India and in England with Lord Cornwallis, was with Abercrombie at Porto Rico, and at San Domingo with Maitland. He arranged the evacuation of Port-au-Prince. 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 1812. He was also Military Secretary during Cornwallis' Viceroyalty in India. In 1805 he was made a K.C.B. After resigning his appointment as Governor of New South Wales he went again to India, where he was given the command in Bengal. He returned to England in 1819 and was elected at the 1820 general election
as a Member of Parliament
(MP) for Eye
,
and held the seat until his death in 1829.
Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
was the Commander-in-chief
Commander-in-Chief
A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...
of Bombay from 24 February 1816 to 9 October 1819. He sat in the House of Commons as a Tory from 1820 to 1829.
Nightingall entered the army in 1787. He served in India and in England with Lord Cornwallis, was with Abercrombie at Porto Rico, and at San Domingo with Maitland. He arranged the evacuation of Port-au-Prince. 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 1812. He was also Military Secretary during Cornwallis' Viceroyalty in India. In 1805 he was made a K.C.B. After resigning his appointment as Governor of New South Wales he went again to India, where he was given the command in Bengal. He returned to England in 1819 and was elected at the 1820 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1820
The 1820 UK general election, held shortly after the Radical War in Scotland and the Cato Street Conspiracy. In this atmosphere, the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool were able to win a substantial majority over the Whigs....
as a Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
(MP) for Eye
Eye (UK Parliament constituency)
Eye was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election...
,
and held the seat until his death in 1829.