John Nicholls (MP)

John Nicholls (c. 1745–1832)[1][2] was an English lawyer and politician.

For other people named John Nicholls, see John Nicholls (disambiguation).

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
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
  2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
  3. 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.


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