Captain Badcock obtained post rank, Aug. 21, 1815; but his application for a Companionship of the Bath has not yet been attended to. He married, Jan. 2, 1822, Selina, youngest daughter of the late Sir Henry Harpur Crewe, Bart., granddaughter of the Right Hon. Lady Frances Harpur, and sister to the present Sir George Crewe, Bart.
His brother. Major Lovell Badcock, served with great honor to himself during the whole of Lord Wellington’s campaigns, was wounded at the battle of Fuentes d’Onor, and is still in the 14th light dragoons. His eldest sister, Anne, is married to Major-General Jasper Nicolls, C.B. who distinguished himself, when Major of the 45th, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the 14th foot, at Corunna and Walcheren. His youngest sister, Sophia, is the wife of the Rev. James Duke Coleridge, eldest son of Colonel J. Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary’s, in Devonshire.
Agent.– J. Copland, Esq.
JOHN TOUP NICOLAS, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1815.]
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; and Knight Commander of the Royal Neapolitan Order of St. Ferdinand and Merit.
The family of Nicolas was originally French; and Abel Nicolas, the immediate ancestor of the subject of this memoir, is presumed to have been a younger branch of the house of Nicolas, Seigneurs of Clayes, Champs Gerault, La Touche, &c. in Brittany, which was ennobled before the i4th century. Being a protestant, he was compelled to quit his country, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685: he soon afterwards settled at Looe, in Cornwall, of which town his descendants have frequently held the office of chief magistrate; and, in the last and present generation, they have served with credit in the army and navy.
Before we proceed to detail the public services of Captain John Toup Nicolas, it may not be improper to notice those of his father, Commander John Harris Nicholas, who retired with that rank, March 17, 1814.
