The sixth son of John Nolloth, at one time Assistant Secretary of the Navy Board and latterly of the Portsmouth Dockyard. Edward Nolloth was the first to be appointed on the staff of the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, the second appointment being Sir Spencer Wells (qv). He served as surgeon on HMS *Victor Emmanuel*, carrying eighty guns, during the whole period of the Russian War, and was awarded the Crimean and Turkish Medals and Sebastopol Clasp, 5th class Medjidie. After having lived in retirement for many years with the rank of Fleet Surgeon, he died at his residence in Camberwell on April 29th, 1887.