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| branch =Bengal Army | serviceyears =1839–1857 | rank =Brigadier-General | servicenumber = | unit =Bengal Native Infantry | commands = | battles = | battles_label = | awards = | relations = John W. Nicholson Jim Nicholson John W. Nicholson, Jr. | laterwork = Colonial administrator }} Brigadier-General John Nicholson (11 December 1822 – 23 September 1857) was a Victorian era military officer known for his role in British India. A charismatic and authoritarian figure, Nicholson created a legend for himself as a political officer under Henry Lawrence in the frontier provinces of the British Empire in India. He was instrumental in the settlement of the North-West Frontier〔Charles Allen, ''Soldier-Sahibs: The Men who made the North-West Frontier'', London: Abacus/Time Warner Books UK, 2002 ed, various references between pp. 2-328. ISBN 0-349-11456-0〕 and played a noted part in the Indian Mutiny. ==Family and education== Nicholson was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, the eldest son of Dr Alexander Jaffray Nicholson (who died when J.N. was nine) and Clara Hogg.〔Charles Allen, p.22-23〕 He was privately educated in Delgany and later attended the Royal School Dungannon, through the patronage of his maternal uncle, Sir James Weir Hogg, a successful East India Company lawyer and for some time Registrar of the Calcutta Supreme Court, and later a Member of Parliament;〔Allen, p. 23〕 and soon after his sixteenth birthday, it was also through the good offices of this uncle, that J.N. was able to secure a cadetship in the East India Company's Bengal Infantry.〔Allen, p.24〕 He then set out for a military career in India in 1839. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Nicholson (East India Company officer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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