the 17th he joined Pollock at Kabul. The combined army recrossed the Sutlej in December. Honours and pension 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. In 1843 he returned to Britain, where the directors of the East India Company voted him a pension of £1,000 per annum (equivalent to £83,000 pa in 2008). He died at Carmarthen on 1 January 1845, aged 62. Family Nott was married twice. Firstly he wed Letitia Swinhoe with whom he had five children, including Charlotte, who married John Bower and was the father of Sir William Nott-Bower. He married his second, much younger, wife in 1843. She was née Rosa Wilson Dore (died 1901), daughter of Major P. L. Dore. After her husband’s death in 1845, she remarried Thomas Twisden Hodges, MP. When her second husband died in 1865 she resumed the name Lady Nott. Statue of General Nott in Carmarthen A statue of General Nott was erected in his home town of Carmarthen in 1851. Sculpted by Edward Davis, it now has Grade II Listed status. It was based on a portrait of Nott by the painter Thomas Brigstocke, who was also born in the town. According to the PMSA, "the bronze statue was cast from cannon captured at the Battle of Maharajpur. Queen Victoria gave 200 guineas to the memorial fund. The statue occupies the site of the market cross which was dismantled when the market was resited and Nott Square created in 1846." Further reading Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott, edited by JH Stocqueler (2 vols, London, 1854) Charles R Low, The Afghan War 1838-1842 (London, 1879), and Life and Correspondence of Sir George Pollock (London, 1873) Sir JW Kaye, History of the War in Afghanistan (2 vols., London, 1851). References Bibliography 1782 births 1845 deaths British military personnel of the First Anglo-Afghan War British East India Company Army generals Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath People from Neath Welsh army officers