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Nesbeth History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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- Scotland
- Ireland
Etymology of Nesbeth
What does the name Nesbeth mean?
The roots of the Nesbeth family are in the Boernician tribe of ancient Scotland. The Nesbeth family lived in any of several places in the Border område of Scotland called Nesbitt or Nisbit. There were hamlets of East Nisbet and West Nisbet in Berwickshire, a village of Nisbet in Roxburghshire, a Nesbit in Northumberland, and a township of Nesbit in County Durham. 1 These place names derive from the Middle English words nese, meaning "nose," and bit, meaning a "piece of ground;" as such, these place names are thought to have referred to geographic features resembling a nose. The surname may well have arisen independently from these different place names.
Early Origins of the Nesbeth family
The surname Nesbeth was first found in Berwickshire an ancient county of Scotland, presently part of the Scottish Borders Cou
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Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt
British Army general (–)
Major-General Frederick George Beaumont-NesbittCVO CBE MC (26 March – 14 December ) was a Britishofficer of the British Army from until He served as a captain in the First World War, and was Director of Military Intelligence from the start of the Second World War until December
Military career
[edit]Beaumont-Nesbitt was the son of Edward Beaumont-Nesbitt, DL, and Helen Thomas.[2] He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in [3] He was promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant on 5 August ,[4] and to captain in , then serving as adjutant at the Divisional Base Depot.[3]
From 3 November [6] until 16 August [7] he served as aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Richard Haking, then in command of the 11th Army Corps, finally returning to his regiment on 16 September [8] • English author and poet (–) For the American model, see Evelyn Nesbit. Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August – 4 May ) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party. Nesbit was born in at 38 Lower Kennington Lane, Kennington, Surrey (now classified as Inner London),[a] the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March , before her fourth birthday. Her mother was Sarah Green (née Alderton). The ill health of Edith's sister Mary meant that the family travelled for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Ger
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