Nicolson
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Nicolson is a patronymic
surname
meaning "son of Nicholas
". There are alternate spellings. Nicolson may refer to:
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
meaning "son of Nicholas
Nicholas
Nicholas or Nikolas is a male given name, derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος , a combination of the words for "victory" and "people" . The name can be understood to mean victory of the people or "power of the people"...
". There are alternate spellings. Nicolson may refer to:
People
- Adam NicolsonAdam NicolsonAdam Nicolson, Baron Carnock, FRSL, FSA , is a British author who writes about English history, landscape and the sea....
, British writer, son of Nigel Nicolson - Adela Florence NicolsonAdela Florence NicolsonAdela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope.- Biography :...
, British poet writing as "Laurence Hope" - Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron CarnockArthur Nicolson, 1st Baron CarnockArthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock , known as Sir Arthur Nicolson, 11th Baronet, from 1899 to 1916, was a British diplomat and politician through the last quarter of the 19th century to the middle of World War I...
, British diplomat and politician - Benedict NicolsonBenedict NicolsonBenedict Nicolson, MVO was a British art historian and author.Nicolson was the elder son of authors Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West and the brother of writer and politician Nigel...
, British art historian and author, son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - David Nicolson, 4th Baron CarnockDavid Nicolson, 4th Baron CarnockDavid Henry Arthur Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock was a British peer and solicitor.The son of the 3rd Baron Carnock and Hon. Katharine Frederica Albertha Lopes, he was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. Nicolson served in the Royal Devon Yeomanry, reaching the rank of major...
, British peer and solicitor. - Eric James Brindley NicolsonEric James Brindley NicolsonFully recovered by September 1941, Nicolson was posted to India in 1942. Between August 1943 and August 1944 he was a Squadron Leader and C.O. of No 27 Squadron, flying Bristol Beaufighters over Burma. During this time he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross....
, Royal Air Force officer - Gerda NicolsonGerda NicolsonGerda Nicolson, was an Australian theatre and television actor best known for several long-running television roles....
, Australian actress - Harold NicolsonHarold NicolsonSir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG was an English diplomat, author, diarist and politician. He was the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West, their unusual relationship being described in their son's book, Portrait of a Marriage.-Early life:Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia, the younger son of...
, British diplomat, politician and writer, son of Arthur Nicolson - James Nicolson (bishop)James Nicolson (bishop)James Nicolson was Bishop of Dunkeld in 1607. The second son of James Nicolson, He received a grant of a pension of £60 per annum on 6 February 1571, from Robert, Bishop of Caithness, payable from the Priory of St Andrews, "becaus he hes bene twyis schorne of the stane, and is continewallie...
(?-1607), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland & Bishop of Dunkeld. - John Nicolson, South African cricketer
- Marjorie Hope NicolsonMarjorie Hope NicolsonMarjorie Hope Nicolson , was born February 18, 1894 in Yonkers, New York, USA, the daughter of Charles Butler Nicolson, editor-in-chief of the Detroit Free Press during World War I and later that paper's correspondent in Washington, DC, and Lissie Hope Morris.She graduated from the University of...
, American academic - Mark NicolsonMark NicolsonMark Nicolson is an American tenor opera singer, currently residing in New York City.Mark Nicolson was born in Galesburg, Illinois and grew up in Peoria, Illinois, where he attended Bradley University. He subsequently studied at University of North Texas College of Music and Indiana University,...
, American tenor and voice teacher - Nigel NicolsonNigel NicolsonNigel Nicolson OBE was a British writer, publisher and politician.-Biography:Nicolson was the son of the writers Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West; he had a brother Ben, later an art historian...
, British publisher, writer and politician, son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - Phyllis NicolsonPhyllis NicolsonPhyllis Nicolson was a British mathematician most known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson scheme together with John Crank....
, mathematician - William NicolsonWilliam NicolsonWilliam Nicolson was an English divine and antiquary.-Life:He was born in Plumbland, Cumberland, the son of Joseph Nicolson, Rector of Plumbland and educated at the school in nearby Dovenby...
, British bishop
See also
- Clan NicolsonClan NicolsonClan Nicolson is a Lowland Scottish clan. The clan claims descent from an Edinburgh lawyer who lived in the 16th century and from a disinguished line of Aberdeen merchants who preceded him. During the mid-1980s David Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock was recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms as the...
, Scottish clan - Clan MacNicol, Scottish clan
- Nicholson (disambiguation)
- NicolNicolNicol is a given name and a surname, and may refer to:* Nicol David, Malaysian squash player* Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor* Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat* Alex Nicol, American actor* Andy Nicol, Scottish rugby player* C. W...