Reginald Nicholson

Who was Reginald Nicholson?

Reginald Nicholson was an English Liberal Party politician.

He was elected at the 1918 general election as a Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament for Doncaster in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for Air from 1919 to 1920, but was defeated at the 1922 general election by the Labour Party candidate Wilfred Paling, and did not stand again.

Nicholson was the son of the William Norris Nicholson and his wife Emily. He was educated at Charterhouse, and later became Traffic Manager of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. He was Manager of The Times newspaper from 1911-15.