George Nicholls (British politician)
George Nicholls (25 June 1864 – 30 November 1943)Member of Parliament (MP) for North Northamptonshire from 1906 to 1910.[1]
Nicholls started life as a farm labourer and
Congregational Church in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, from 1894 to 1902, and afterwards of Congregational Churches at Silverdale and Chesterton, in Staffordshire.[4]
He was elected as MP for North Northamptonshire at the 1906 general election,[5] but was defeated at the January 1910 general election.[2]
After his defeat he stood for Parliament again in Faversham at the December 1910 general election,[6] and in Newmarket at a by-election in May 1913,[7] but was unsuccessful on both occasions.
He was elected to Peterborough town council in 1912, and became the town's mayor from 1916 to 1918.[4]
He was the chief organiser for the Allotment and Small Holdings section of the
Justice of the Peace.[4]
After
Sir Francis Dyke Acland.[8] He then stood as a Liberal Party candidate in Peterborough at the 1922 general election,[9] in Warwick and Leamington at the 1923 and 1924 general elections,[10] in Bury St Edmunds at a by-election in January 1925,[11] and in Harborough at the 1929 general election,[12]
References
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
- ^ ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ^ The Times House of Commons, 1929; Politico’s Publishing, 2003 p91
- ^ a b c d A & C Black (1920–2008). "NICHOLLS, George". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 August 2010. Online edition, December 2007.
- ^ "No. 27885". The London Gazette. 13 February 1906. p. 1044.
- ^ Craig, British parliamentary election results 1885–1918, page 304
- ^ Craig, British parliamentary election results 1885–1918, page 228
- ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ Craig, British parliamentary election results 1918–1949, page 438
- ^ Craig, British parliamentary election results 1918–1949, page 493
- ^ Craig, British parliamentary election results 1918–1949, page 470
- ^ Craig, British parliamentary election results 1918–1949, page 411