Charles Nicholson

Sir Charles Nicholson Bart., VPASL, FRSL FRGS,DCL LLD, FRAS
Born	1808
Died	1903
Residence	5 Cleveland Row St James's [1862] 19 Portland Place, WC [1864] 26 Devonshire Place Marylebone [1866] The Grange, Totteridge, Herts [1879]
Occupation	aristocracy political academic
Society Membership membership ESL, ASL, AI Ordinary Fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1865.01.03; 1869.11.02 ASL resigned 1903 deceased elected_ESL 1858.12.02 elected_AI 1858 elected_ASL 1863 clubs Athenaeum Club societies Royal Society of Literature Royal Geographical Society Royal Asiatic Society Society for Psychical Research Royal Colonial Institute Royal Society of Arts

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Office Notes

ESL Council 1864-65 Member [proposed]
ESL Council 1865-66 Member [?]
ESL Council 1866-67 Member [?]
ESL Council 1867-68 Member [?]
ESL Council 1868-69 Member
ESL Council 1869-70 Member

ASL Council 1863 [1st and new July] Vice President
ASL Council 1864 Vice President

House Notes

ESL Auditor 63
invited to become VICE PRESIDENT ASL 1863 Proposed, Mr Mackie, seconded, Mr Bollaert
death noted in report of the council for 1903: Sir CHARLES NICHOLSON, D.C.L., LL.D., the oldest baronet in the Kingdom, died on November 8th, shortly before his ninety-fifth birthday. He was educated at Edinburgh University, where he took his degree of M.D. in 1853. In 1854 he emigrated to New South Wales, in the first Legislative Council of which he represented Port Philip, later rising to the position of Speaker, which he held for eleven years. In 1858 he became a Fellow of the Ethnological Society, and, after the formation of the Anthropological Institute, he was a contributor to the Journal. Among his other works were various official papers and reports, besides articles which appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, of which Society he was Vice-President.

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet (23 November 1808[1] – 8 November 1903)was an English-Australian politician, university founder, explorer, pastoralist, antiquarian and philanthropist. The Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney is named after him.

Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1868
Associate of Society for Psychical Research 1884

Born Cockermouth, Cumberland; died Totteridge.
Was in Australia 1834-62. Much involved in politics and in the founding of Sydney University of which he was Chancellor 1854-62. Knighted 1852-first Australian baronet 1859 Honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh. Interested in Egyptian and classical antiquities.