# Graham Nicol

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**Graham John Nicol** (17 July 1907 – 28 September 1990) was an Australian politician.

He was born in [Windsor](/source/Windsor,_Victoria), the son of pastoralist F. H. Nicol. He was an accountant, and served in [World War II](/source/World_War_II) from 1940 to 1945; he was a [prisoner of war](/source/Prisoner_of_war) of the Japanese in [Timor](/source/Timor) and [Java](/source/Java). On 14 August 1930 he had married Dorothy Williams, with whom he had two daughters. In 1958 he was elected to the [Victorian Legislative Council](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Council) as a [Liberal and Country Party](/source/Liberal_and_Country_Party) member for [Monash Province](/source/Monash_Province). He had held high office in the party as chairman of the [Young Liberals](/source/Young_Liberals_(Australia)) and a member of the state executive, but he remained on the backbench throughout his parliamentary career. Nicol retired in 1976, and died in 1990.[1]

## References

1. Parliament of Victoria (2001). ["Nicol, Graham John"](https://web.archive.org/web/20060823134537/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1350). *re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851*. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from [the original](http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1350) on 23 August 2006. Retrieved 14 November 2015.

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