1. Major-General Sir William Nott was a British military officer of the Bengal Army, East India Company in British India.
10 Facts About William Nott
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William Nott joined the volunteer corps in 1798 and obtained a cadetship in the Indian army and went to India in 1800 when under Company rule in India it was a key component of the growing British Empire.
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In 1825, William Nott was promoted to the command of his regiment of native infantry; and in 1838, on the outbreak of the First Afghan war, he was appointed to the command of a brigade.
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On receiving the news of the rising of the Afghans at Kabul in November 1841, William Nott took energetic measures.
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William Nott arranged with Sir George Pollock, now commander-in-chief, to join him at Kabul.
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William Nott's services were highly commended; he was immediately appointed Resident at Lucknow, was presented with a Sword of Honour, and was invested as a Knights Grand Cross of the GCB.
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William Nott died at Carmarthen on 1 January 1845, aged 62.
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William Nott married his second, much younger, wife in 1843.
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William Nott was nee Rosa Wilson Dore, daughter of Major P L Dore.
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The statue occupies the site of the market cross which was dismantled when the market was resited and William Nott Square created in 1846.