{{Short description|British army officer and politician (1862–1939)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Edward Nicholl | image = | alt = | caption = | party = Conservative | birth_date = {{birth date|1862|06|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = Pool, Cornwall, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1939|03|30|1862|06|17|df=yes}} | death_place = | spouse = | children = | module = {{Infobox military person | embed = yes | rank = Commander | branch = Royal Naval Reserve }} | term_start = 1918 | term_end = 1922 | office = Member of Parliament<br/ >for Penryn and Falmouth | predecessor = Sydney Goldman | successor = Denis Shipwright | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|JP|DL}} | honorific_prefix = Sir }} Commander '''Sir Edward Nicholl''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|JP|DL}} (17 June 1862 – 30 March 1939)<ref name="rayment-hc">{{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm |title=Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "P", part 1 |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages |accessdate=12 January 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231171753/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm |archive-date=31 December 2010 }}</ref> was a British officer of the Royal Naval Reserve who subsequently became a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).
==Early life== Nicholl was born at Ada Terrace, Pool, Cornwall .<ref name ="The Life of Commander Sir Edward Nicholl">{{cite book |author=Wignall, Trevor C |date=1921 |title= The Life of Commander Sir Edward Nicholl |publisher= Mills & Boon}}</ref> When he was 'no more than three years of age' the family moved to Redruth.<ref name ="The Life of Commander Sir Edward Nicholl" />
== Career == He left school at 12 and went to work as an Assistant Timekeeper at the Carn Brea Railway Works.<ref name="The Life of Commander Sir Edward Nicholl" /> Two years later he started an Engineering Apprenticeship with the Great Western Railway at Carn Brea. He left home at 18 to continue the apprenticeship in Swindon.<ref name="The Life of Commander Sir Edward Nicholl" />
In 1889 was granted a Commission in the Royal Naval Reserve.<ref name ="The Life of Commander Sir Edward Nicholl" /> He was knighted in 1916 for war services.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 29671 |date=18 July 1916 |page=7093 |city=London }}</ref>
He was elected at the 1918 general election as MP for Penryn and Falmouth but did not seek re-election in 1922 general election.<ref name="craig1918-1949">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |orig-date=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X |page=313 }}</ref>
He was a patron of the Cornwall County wrestling Association for many years.<ref name="RCG26071894">''Cornish wrestling'', Cornish Guardian, 15 April 1927, p2.</ref>
In the King's Birthday Honours 1928, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for "political and public services".<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 33390 |date=1 June 1928 |page=3854 |supp=y |city=London }}</ref>
== Further reading == {{Portal|Cornwall}} * T. C. Wignall; ''[https://archive.org/stream/lifeofcommanders00wigniala/lifeofcommanders00wigniala_djvu.txt The life of Commander Sir Edward Nicholl]''; Mills & Boon Ltd.; London, 1921
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