Miles Nightingall

Sir Miles Nightingall (25 December 1768 – 12 September 1829)^[1] 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^[2] 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,^[2] and held the seat until his death in 1829.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)
2. ^ ^{a b} 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. 

Sources

• Great Britain India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List. I. Harrison. p. 127. http://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=toc. Retrieved 2009-01-08. 

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Mark Singleton Sir Robert Gifford	Member of Parliament for Eye 1820 – 1829 With: Sir Robert Gifford to 1824 Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt from 1824	Succeeded by Sir Philip Sidney, Bt Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt

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Name	Nightingall, Miles
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Date of birth	25 December 1768
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Date of death	12 September 1829
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