William Nicholson (distiller)

For contemporaneous MP for Newark, see William Newzam Nicholson. For his son, see William Graham Nicholson.

William Nicholson
MP
Born(1824-09-02)2 September 1824
Islington, Middlesex
Died25 July 1909(1909-07-25) (aged 84)
Mayfair, London
EducationHarrow School
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
SpouseIsabella Sarah née Meek (m. 1858)
RelativesColonel the Rt Hon. William Nicholson (s)
Brigadier-General John Nicholson (s)
Brigadier Claude Nicholson (gs)
Sir Godfrey Nicholson (gs)
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (g-gd)

William Nicholson JP DL (2 September 1824 – 25 July 1909), was a British Member of Parliament, London gin distiller, cricketer and philanthropist in the Victorian era.

Nicholson played as a gentleman amateur from 1845 to 1869 and was twice elected as MP for Petersfield in Hampshire to represent the Liberal Party in 1866 and in 1880, before serving as President of Marylebone Cricket Club (for 1879/80).

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