Francis Nicolls (MP For Bishop's Castle, Shropshire)
Francis Nicolls (or Nichols) may refer to: * Francis Nicolls (MP for Bishop's Castle, Shropshire) (c.1582–1624), father of Richard Nicolls * Sir Francis Nicolls, 1st Baronet (1586–1642), MP for Northamptonshire See also * Francis Nicholls (other) * Francis Nicholson (other) * Frank Nicholls Frank Nicholls (1699 – 7 January 1778) was a physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. He was made reader of anatomy at Oxford University when young and moved to London in the 1730s. Life The second son of John Nicholl ...

Francis Nicolls (MP For Bishop's Castle, Shropshire)
Francis Nicolls (or Nichols) may refer to: * Francis Nicolls (MP for Bishop's Castle, Shropshire) (c.1582–1624), father of Richard Nicolls * Sir Francis Nicolls, 1st Baronet (1586–1642), MP for Northamptonshire See also * Francis Nicholls (other) * Francis Nicholson (other) * Frank Nicholls Frank Nicholls (1699 – 7 January 1778) was a physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. He was made reader of anatomy at Oxford University when young and moved to London in the 1730s. Life The second son of John Nicholl ...

Richard Nicolls
Richard Nicolls (sometimes written as Nichols, 1624 – 28 May 1672) was the first English colonial governor of New York province. Early life Nicolls was born in 1624 in Ampthill in Bedfordshire, England. He was the son of Francis Nicolls (1582–1624), a barrister and Member of Parliament, and Margaret (née Bruce) Nicolls (1577–1652), who were married at Abbots Langley in 1609. His mother was a daughter of Sir George Bruce of Carnock (c. 1550–1625), a Scottish merchant who built Culross Palace, and a niece of Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss (1548–1611). Career He commanded a royalist troop of horse (i.e., cavalry) during the English Civil War, and on the defeat of the king went into exile. Soon after the Restoration he became Groom of the Chamber to the Duke of York. Province of New York Through the influence of the Duke of York, in 1664 he was appointed on a commission with Sir Robert Carr (d. 1667), George Cartwright, and Samuel Maverick, to conquer New Netherlan ...
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Sir Francis Nicolls, 1st Baronet
Sir Francis Nicolls, 1st Baronet (sometimes spelt Nichols) (1586 – 4 March 1642) was an English Member of Parliament. He was also the first of the Nicolls baronets. He was born the eldest son of Francis Nichols of Hardwick, Northamptonshire and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He also entered the Middle Temple in the same year (1602) to study law but was never called to the bar. He succeeded his father in 1604 and inherited land at Faxton in 1616 on the death of his uncle, the judge Sir Augustine Nicholls. He served as a Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire in 1620-26 and from 1628 to his death. He was made a commissioner for oyer and terminer on the Midlands circuit in 1626. In 1628 he was elected MP for Northamptonshire, sitting until Parliament was suspended the following year by King Charles I. He was pricked High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1630–31. Nicolls was created a baronet on 28 July 1641. He died in 1642. He had married Mary, the daughter o ...
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Francis Nicholls (other)
Francis Nicholls may refer to: * Frankie Knuckles (1955–2014), American DJ and record producer * Francis T. Nicholls (1834–1912), two-term governor of Louisiana See also * Francis D. Nichol (1897–1966), Seventh-day Adventist * Francis Nicolls (other), including Francis Nichols * Francis Nicholson (other) Francis Nicholson (1655–1728) was a British military officer and colonial governor. Francis Nicholson may also refer to: *Francis Nicholson (painter) (1753–1844), English painter *Francis Joseph Nicholson Francis Joseph Nicholson O.C.D. (29 A ...

Francis Nicholson (other)
Francis Nicholson (1655–1728) was a British military officer and colonial governor. Francis Nicholson may also refer to: *Francis Nicholson (painter) (1753–1844), English painter *Francis Joseph Nicholson Francis Joseph Nicholson O.C.D. (29 April 180330 April 1855) was a Roman Catholic archbishop of Corfu, then in the United States of the Ionian Islands, a British protectorate. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. Around the middle of the 19th century, ..., Bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia See also * Frank Nicholson (other) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicholson, Francis ...
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