John Sanctuary Nicholson

Brigadier-General John Sanctuary Nicholson, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO (19 May 1863 – 21 February 1924) was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1921 to 1924.

Born in Kensington, London, the son of William Nicholson and his wife Isabella. He was educated at Harrow and then in 1882 to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He was commissioned in 7th Hussars in February 1884 and in 1886 he spent eight years in India with his regiment before in 1894 being sent to Natal.

The 7th Hussars joined a force at Mafeking to suppress a native rising in Matabeleland. During these operations he raised and commanded a Corps of British South Africa Police (BSAP). He became Commandant-General of the BSAP and Inspector-General of Volunteers in Rhodesia from 1898 until 1903. The Second Boer War took place in neighbouring South Africa from 1899 to June 1902, and to recognize his contribution, Nicholson was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the South Africa honours list published on 26 June 1902. In 1903 he succeeded Baden-Powell as Inspector-General of South African Constabulary and retired from the post as a Colonel in 1907.

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