NELSON

Sir Alexander Abercromby . b. Walmer, Kent 30 June 1814; ensign 40 foot 6 March 1835, captain 31 July 1846 to 31 Dec. 1847; served at Kandahar and in Afghanistan 1841–2, and at battle of Haidarabad 24 March 1843; D.A.A.G. at Portsmouth 1855–6; brigade major at Portsmouth 1856–7; D.A.G. in Jamaica 9 Dec. 1864 to 27 Oct. 1866, with lieut. Herbert Brand tried George William Gordon by court martial in Jamaica for high treason and caused him to be hanged 23 Oct. 1865, Nelson and Brand were tried for murder at central criminal court London 10 April 1867 and acquitted, but lord chief justice Cock burn made strong remarks as to the evidence on which Gordon had been sentenced to death; A.A.G. Cork district 1867; A.A.G. Gibraltar 1873–6; lieut. col. in the army 9 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 June 1877; lieutenant governor of Guernsey 1 May 1879–83; M.G. 29 April 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 10 Oct. 1883; C.B. 29 May 1875, K.C.B. 30 May 1891. d. Walmer, Bath road, Reading 28 Sept. 1893. Charge of lord chief justice Cock burn in the case of The queen against Nelson and Brand (1867); Irving’s Annals (1876) 764, 766, 771.