Oliver Nicolls

General Oliver Nicolls (c.1740 – 1829) was a British Army officer.

Oliver Nicolls
Bornc.1740
Died1829
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankGeneral
Commands heldBombay Army

Military career

Nicolls was commissioned into the 1st Regiment of Foot in November 1756.[1] He became Quartermaster-General in the West Indies in 1794, in which capacity he subdued a rebellion in Grenada.[1] He became Commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army on 22 January 1801 retiring from that post in 1808[2] to become a member of the Board of Inquiry into the Convention of Sintra under which the defeated French were allowed to evacuate their troops from Portugal without further conflict.[3] He went on to serve as Governor of the Island of Anholt in 1813.[4]

He was also colonel of the 54th Regiment of Foot and then the 66th Regiment of Foot.[1]

References

Military offices
Preceded by
James Stuart
C-in-C, Bombay Army
18011808
Succeeded by
John Abercromby
Preceded by
John Thomas de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde
Colonel of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot
18081829
Succeeded by
Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet
Preceded by
Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Colonel of the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
18071808
Succeeded by
Edward Finch
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