Brinsley Nicholson
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Brinsley Nicholson M.D. (1824–14 September 1892) was a Scottish physician, known as an editor of Elizabethan literature.
Life
Born at
Becoming an army surgeon, Nicholson spent some years in South Africa, and saw service in the Xhosa Wars in 1853 and 1854. He was in China during the Second Opium War, and present at the looting of the Summer Palace in Beijing; and in New Zealand took part in the Second Taranaki War.[1]
About 1870 Nicholson retired from the army, and settled near London. He died 14 September 1892. He had married in 1875, and his wife survived him.[1]
Works
Nicholson contributed genealogical tables of Xhosa chiefs to a Compendium of Kafir Laws and Customs printed by the government of British Kaffraria at Mount Coke in 1858.[1]
In 1875 Nicholson edited, for the then recently formed
Encouraged by
Nicholson contributed to
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Nicholson, Brinsley". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.