Godfrey Nicholson
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sir Godfrey Nicholson, 1st Baronet (9 December 1901 – 14 July 1991)[1] was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP).
Early life
Nicholson was born on 9 December 1901. he was a younger son of Richard Francis Harrison (1865–1940) and Helen Violet (Template:Nee Portal) Nicholson (1867–1927). Through his father, he was a member of the family which founded London-based gin distillers J&W Nicholson & Co.[2]
His paternal grandparents were William Nicholson and the former Isabella Sarah Meek. Among his paternal family were uncles, William Graham Nicholson and John Sanctuary Nicholson.[2] His maternal grandparents were Helen Mary Charlotte (Template:Nee Soulsby) Portal and Rev. George Raymond Portal (a brother of Sir Wyndham Portal, 1st Baronet), the President of the Oxford Union who served as rector of Albury, Surrey and of Burghclere.[3][4]
He was educated at Winchester College and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.Template:Fact
Career
In 1931, he contested and won Morpeth and held the seat until 1935. Two years later, he contested and won Farnham in a by-election and on the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he served with The Royal Fusiliers until 1942. He was subsequently a captain in the Home Guard and as MP criticized that an issue of pikes to the Home Guard made during a shortage of rifles "if not meant as a joke, was an insult".[5][6]
On 20 March 1958, Nicholson was made a baronet[7] and retired from politics in 1966.Template:Fact
Personal life
On 30 June 1936, he had married Lady Katharine Lindsay (1912–1972), a younger daughter of David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford, and the former Constance Lilian Pelly (a daughter of Sir Henry Pelly, 3rd Baronet). Together, they had four daughters:[2]
- Rose Helen Nicholson (b. 1937), who married Richard Luce, Baron Luce, a son of Margaret (née Napier) and Sir William Luce.[2]
- Laura Violet Nicholson (1939–2021), who married Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame, 12th Baronet, the youngest son of Sir Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 10th Baronet and, his second wife, Nancy Macaulay Foggo, in 1964.[2]
- Emma Harriet Nicholson (b. 1941), who married Sir Michael Harris Caine, in 1987.[2]
- Harriet Mary Nicholson (b. 1946), who married Charles Hugh Flower (a maternal great-great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Abercorn).[2]
Sir Godfrey was a favourite at the London Gliding Club where they appreciated his passing of favourable laws regarding gliding.
As Nicholson had no sons from his marriage, his title became extinct upon his death in 1991.[2]
Arms
References
External links
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- British Army Officers 1939−1945
- Nicholson, Sir Godfrey, (1901-1991), 1st Baronet, politician at the National Archives (United Kingdom)
- ↑ Template:Rayment-hc
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, vol. 1, p. 995.
- ↑ Burke's Peerage 2003, p. 3177
- ↑ "Portal, George Raymond", Alumni Oxonienses, p. 1132
- ↑ Hansard: Army Supplementary Estimate, 1941, House of Commons Debate, 11 March 1942
- ↑ These weapons became known as "Croft's pikes" after the Under Secretary of War (Lord Croft) who defended their issue.
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