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British politician
Nicholson
William Graham Nicholson ,
PC ,
JP (11 March 1862 – 29 July 1942)
[1] was a British
Liberal Unionist and later
Conservative Party politician.
Nicholson was born into a famous family of distillers, the son of
William Nicholson and brother of
John Sanctuary Nicholson , a notable military figure in Imperial Africa.
[2] He grew up in
Basing Park at
Froxfield , which later became his seat.
[3] He was educated at
Harrow School and at
Trinity College, Cambridge .
[4] Nicholson served as Director-General on Mobilisation in the
Second Anglo-Boer War from 30 June 1901 and was promoted an Honorary Colonel commanding the 3rd Battalion of the
Hampshire Regiment . In 1890 he married Alice Margaret Beach, daughter of
William Wither Bramston Beach MP.
[5]
After the death of the Conservative MP
William Wickham , he was elected at a by-election in June 1897 as the
Liberal Unionist
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Petersfield in Hampshire,
[6] a seat which had previously been held by his father. Nicholson sat as a Conservative after the Liberal Unionists and Conservatives merged in 1912, and held the seat until his retirement at the
1935 general election .
[7] He resided under a lease for some time at
Bentworth Hall , although Basing Park was his main residence.
[8]
[9]
[10] He was appointed a
Privy Counsellor in 1925. He was an
alderman of
Hampshire County Council , a
Justice of the Peace , and a
Deputy Lieutenant of
Hampshire .
[11]
In his spare time he was a keen horticulturalist.
[12]
References
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
^ Wills, Walter H.; Barrett, R. J. (1905).
The Anglo-African who's who and biographical sketch-book . George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. p.
121 . Retrieved 19 February 2012 .
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"PRIVETT AND THE NICHOLSONS" . Simon Knott.co.uk. Retrieved 19 February 2012 .
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"Nicholson, William Graham (NCL881WG)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
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"The Second Anglo-Boer War Military Intelligence" (PDF) . The Victorian military Society. Retrieved 19 February 2012 .
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Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 292.
ISBN
0-900178-27-2 .
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Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 367.
ISBN
0-900178-06-X .
^ Cook, Chris; Ramsden, John (1997).
By-elections in British politics . Psychology Press. p. 45.
ISBN
978-1-85728-535-2 .
^ Eggar, J. Alfred (1989).
Remembrances of life and customs in Gilbert White's, Cobbett's & Charles Kingsley's country . Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. p. 188.
^ Griffith, Edward C. (1947).
The Basingstoke & Alton Light Railway, 1901-1936 . Langham. p. 4.
^ Hesilridge, Arthur G. M. (1922).
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1922 . London: Dean & Son. p. 120.
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Gardeners' chronicle, horticultural trade journal . Haymarket Publishing. 1932. p. 16.
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