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Douglas Nicholson
Admiral Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson, KCB, MVO (1867-1946) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet.
==Naval career==
Nicholson served in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He was appointed in command of the destroyer HMS ''Dove'' on 24 February 1902, serving in the Channel Fleet as part of the Portsmouth instructional flotilla. In May 1902, the ship hit a rock off Kildorney, and had to be towed by her sister ship HMS ''Bullfinch'' to Queenstown, and later back to Portsmouth for repairs. Douglas and the crew transferred to the recently completed torpedo boat destroyer HMS ''Success'', which was commissioned at Portsmouth on 9 June.
He became commanding officer of the cruiser HMS ''Hyacinth'' in August 1905, of the cruiser HMS ''Hermes'' in December 1905 and of the battleship HMS ''St Vincent'' in 1910.〔(Captains Commanding Royal Navy Warships )〕 He went on to be commanding officer of the battleship HMS ''Conqueror'' in 1912 and Commodore of His Majesty's Yachts in 1913.〔 He served in World War I as commanding officer of HMS ''Agincourt'' in the Grand Fleet from 1914.〔 He continued his war service as Second-in-Command of the 3rd Battle Squadron from March 1917, as Second-in-Command of the 4th Battle Squadron from September 1917 and as Commander of the 3rd Battle Squadron from 1918.〔(Senior Royal Navy Appointments )〕
He became Rear-Admiral, Reserve Fleet at Portland in 1919 and Vice-Admiral commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1922 before retiring in 1926.〔
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