Sir Charles Norris Nicholson, 1st Baronet (30 July 1857 – 29 November 1918) was the

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for

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from

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Background

He was born in 1857 a son of William Norris Nicholson and Emily Daniel, daughter of James Stock Daniel. His father was Secretary to two Liberal Lord Chancellors, Lord Truro and

Lord Cranworth Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth, PC (18 December 1790 – 26 July 1868) was a British lawyer and Liberal politician. He twice served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Background and education Born at Cranworth, Norfolk, he was ...

, and Master in Lunacy. He was educated at

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and

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, In 1882 he married Amy Letitia Crosfield of Warrington.The Liberal Year Book, 1908 He had a younger brother Reginald, who also went on to become a Liberal MP. The Nicholson Baronetcy, of Harrington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 7 February 1912.

Professional career

He undertook legal training and in 1878 he received a

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and in 1880 joined

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.Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1918. He chose not to practise and instead worked in the Lunacy Office. He worked in

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, London for 15 years during which he served as Chairman of Shoreditch

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. He was also Chairman of Shoreditch Poor Law Schools Committee. In 1910 he was appointed

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Political career

In 1902 Nicholson was selected as Liberal candidate for Doncaster. It was a marginal Conservative seat that the Liberals last won in 1892, the last time they formed the government. In 1906, with the country swinging behind the new government of

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, Nicholson comfortably gained Doncaster. Nicholson faced re-election in January 1910 and was comfortably re-elected, retaining most of the vote he had gained in 1906. This comfortable result was confirmed at the December 1910 General Election. Nicholson was a supporter of votes for women, backing it in notable House of Commons votes in 1908 and 1912. Following the Asquith-Lloyd George split in the Liberal party, Nicholson backed Lloyd George, remaining loyal to the Coalition Government. In November 1918, at the age of 61, at the start of the general election campaign, he died suddenly from pneumonia.Yorkshire Evening Post, 30 Nov 1918 He was replaced as Liberal candidate, by his younger brother

Reginald Nicholson Reginald Nicholson (15 July 1869 – 27 April 1946) was an English Liberal Party politician. He was elected at the 1918 general election as a Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was Pa ...

who was comfortably elected with the backing of the Coalition government. He was a

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, a member of the Royal Institute, Chairman of the Board of Control of Regt. Institutes and a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicholson, Charles 1857 births 1918 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English barristers 19th-century English lawyers Church Estates Commissioners