William Graham Nicholson

William Graham Nicholson PC, JP (11 March 1862 – 29 July 1942)^[1] was a British Liberal Unionist and later Conservative Party politician.

The eldest son of William Nicholson JP DL, of Basing Park, Hampshire, he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2]

He was Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel commanding the 3rd Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment. In 1890 he married Alice Margaret Beach, daughter of Rt Hon. William Wither Bramston Beach MP.

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.^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5]

References

^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
^ Nicholson, William Graham in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Hesilridge, Arthur G. M. (1922). Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1922. London: Dean & Son. p. 120. http://www.archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1922londuoft#page/120/mode/1up.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Wickham	Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1897 – 1935	Succeeded by Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith