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Sir Nigel Kingscote. 
surmounting the difficulties of the campaign. When Lord 
Raglan died from dysentery on June 28, 1855, during the siege 
of Sebastopol, his remains were brought back to England in 
the steamship Caradoc, and his aides-de-camp 1 escorted the 
body to its last r’esting-place in the family vault of the 
Somersets at Badminton. For his war services Nigel 
Kingscote, who had been gazetted Brevet-Major whilst in the 
Crimea, on December 12, 1854, was given the brevet rank of 
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, was made a Companion of 
the Bath, and received the Crimean Medal, with four clasps 
(Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol), as well as the 
Turkish Medal. 
On February 5, 1856, Colonel Kingscote married as his 
second wife Lady Emily Marie Curzon, third daughter of the 
first Earl Howe, and set up an establishment at 34 Charles 
Street, Berkeley Square, where he continued to reside for over 
forty years, removing in 1897 to 19 South Audley Street. He 
sold out of the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1856, and thereafter 
his only association with the Army was as Honorary Colonel 
of the (recently disbanded) North Gloucester Militia, a position 
in which he succeeded his father in 1862. He lived for a 
number of years the ordinary life of a country gentleman 
with a town residence and a seat in Parliament : for in July, 
1852, he had been elected as a Liberal to represent the Western 
Division of Gloucestershire, and retained the seat for thirty- 
three years. On the death of his father on December 19, 1861, 
he came into possession of the estate at Kingscote, and kept 
up the family traditions as a squire, stock-breeder, and a 
follower of the hounds. 
In Parliament he was one of the silent members, more 
common then than now ; and the only subject on which he is 
remembered to have taken a part of any prominence was that 
of the Abolition of Purchase in the Army, in which his views 
were opposed to the Liberal party, to which he then belonged. 
He was, however, regarded as a useful practical member, espe- 
cially in all matters relating to agriculture. He held his seat for 
West Gloucestershire without a contest from 1852 (when as a 
Free Trader he defeated a Protectionist) until 1868, and he was 
practically unopposed then and later, for although the Liberals 
won, lost, and regained the second seat, it was an understanding 
1 His four aides-de-camp were (1) Lieut.-Col. Lord Burghersh, (2) Lieut.* 
Col. Poulet G. H. Somerset, (3) Brevet-Major Kingscote, (4) Capt. the Hon. 
Leicester Curzon. The senior, Lord Burghersh, subsequently twelfth Earl of 
Westmorland, married on July 16, 1857, Lady Adelaide Curzon, elder sister 
of Lady Emily Kingscote, nee Curzon. The junior was Lady Emily's 
youngest brother, who subsequently took the name of Smyth on marrying an 
heiress of that name, and died in 1891 as Sir Leicester Smyth, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. 
