John Nicholls (MP)
John Nicholls (c. 1745–1832)[1][2] was an English lawyer and politician.
Nuchollas was the son of Frank Nicholls, who was a physician to King George II. His mother Elizabeth was a daughter of the physician Richard Mead.[3]
He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1767.[3]
He married a granddaughter of Edmund Gibson, the Bishop of London from 1723 to 1748.[3]
He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bletchingley from 1783 to 1787,[1] and for Tregony from 1796 to 1802.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
- ^ a b c Cannon, J. A. (1964). L. Namier; J. Brooke (eds.). "NICHOLLS, John (?1745-1832), of Goring, Oxon. and Ockley, Surr". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 4 May 2015.