Donald Nicoll

Donald Nicoll
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Residence	Kilburn; Oaklands West End Hampstead
Occupation	business inventor political
Society Membership membership ESL Ordinary Fellow left 1868 resigned elected_ESL 1868.03.10

Notes

Notes From Elsewhere

? Donald Nicoll Esq., Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster,

History of Hampstead, Kilburn ...Adjoining the Gilberts estate to the south was the Little estate, the northern part of which had been sold off in 1827. (fn. 1) By 1862 it, together with other parts of the estate to the east, was in the hands of Donald Nicoll. (fn. 2) He built Palmerston Road in 1865, which was linked to the United Land Co. estate. Building, of cramped terraces as on the land company estates, was almost complete by 1871. (fn. 3)

From The Telephone and telephone exchanges: One system (Donald Nicoll, Kilburn) had an ingenious method of jointing the conductors of the separate sections. ...it is to be hoped that both Mr. Nicoll and Mr. Holzmann may succeed in their endeavour to give us cheap underground lines, by which they will be doing a most welcome service to telegraphy

From History of West Hampstead: The period of greatest development was in the 15 years from 1879, beginning with the opening of the third railway, the Metropolitan & St. John's Wood, with a station in West End Lane (West Hampstead). Stations on the other two lines opened in 1880 and 1888. The first to exploit the railway was Donald Nicoll, M.P. and owner of a gentlemen's outfitter's in Regent Street, who leased Oaklands Hall from Charles Spain from 1861 to 1872 and owned portions of the Little estate to the north and west, together forming a 23-a. estate which he called West End Park. Nicoll was a director of the Metropolitan and St. John's Wood railway from 1864 to 1872 and, in anticipation of its plans, laid out a road (Sherriff, then called Nicoll, Road) on the line later taken by the railway, for which he received substantial compensation. He then sold West End Park to the London Permanent Building Society, which was connected with Alexander Sherriff, a fellow M.P. and railway director, who gave his name to the northernmost road on the estate. 

London Gazette 1866:
1349. And to Donald Nicoll, of Oaklands Hall, W est End, Kilburn, in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, for the invention of " improvements in the means of, and apparatus for, preserving animal and vegetable substances from decompo- sition or decay, and for the conveyance and transport of the. same."

Publications

External Publications

Publicity: An Essay on Advertising
Donald Nicoll

Out-door Poor Relief: An Essay
Donald Nicoll

Co-operative Trading: Its Evil Effects and Proposed Remedy
Donald Nicoll