Sir_John_Norris_Nicholson,_2nd_Baronet

Sir John Nicholson, 2nd Baronet

Sir John Nicholson, 2nd Baronet

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Sir John Norris Nicholson, 2nd Baronet, KBE, CIE, MA, JP (19 February 1911 – 30 August 1993) was Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight from 1980 to 1985.[1]

He was the only child of Captain George Crosfield Norris Nicholson, RFC, and Evelyn Izme née Murray, the daughter of Montolieu Oliphant-Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank. He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1938 he married Vittoria Vivien née Trewhella: they had two sons and two daughters. During World War II he served with the Cheshire Regiment. From 1942 to 1946 he was seconded to the Ministry of War Transport.

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    ‘NICHOLSON, Sir John (Norris)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 Aug 2016
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