Edward Hugh Dyneley Nicolls was a British colonial official and engineer, who served as the Director of Public Works in several British colonies. He was educated at

Bloxham School Bloxham School, also called All Saints' School, is an independent co-educational day and boarding school of the British public school tradition, located in the village of Bloxham, three miles (5 km) from the town of Banbury in Oxfordshir ...

. He was appointed Director of Public Works in

British Cyprus British Cyprus was the island of Cyprus under the dominion of the British Empire, administered sequentially from 1878 to 1914 as a British protectorate, from 1914 to 1925 as a unilaterally annexed military occupation, and from 1925 to 1960 as a ...

in 1904, and served in that position until 1919. He was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1918. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1927, while serving as Director of Public Works in

Gold Coast Gold Coast may refer to: Places Africa * Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana: ** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642) ** Dutch G ...

.National Archives, 'Colonial Office Honours List' (1927) http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10149412

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