Sir John Nicholl
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The Right Honourable Sir John Nicholl MP |
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| Member of Parliament for Penryn |
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In office 1802–1806 |
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| Member of Parliament for Hastings |
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In office 1806–1807 |
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| Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn |
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In office 1807–1832 |
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John Nicholl 16 March 1759 Llan-maes, Wales |
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26 August 1838 (aged 79) Merthyr Mawr, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | British Tory party |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford |
Sir John Nicholl (16 March 1759 – 26 August 1838) was a Welsh Member of Parliament and judge. As a judge he was noted "for inflexible impartiality and great strength and soundness of judgement".
Nicholl was born in 1759, the second son of John Nicholl of Llan-maes, a small village near Llantwit Major in Wales. He was educated at Cowbridge and Bristol Grammar Schools, before gaining entry to St John's College, Oxford, in 1775. He graduated as Bachelor of Civil Law in 1780 and as Doctor of Civil Law in 1785. He was called to the bar of the Doctors' Commons in 1785.
Nicholl built an extensive practice and on the 6 November 1798 he succeeded Sir William Scott as King's Advocate and was knighted as was custom for the position. Within this role, Nicholl would often brief the Privy Council and Secretary of State on international law.
In 1802, Nicholl was elected to Parliament holding the seat of Penryn in Cornwall. After a brief period as Member of Parliament of Hastings from 1806 to 1807, he was elected to the seat of Great Bedwyn, and remained the member of the constituency until the Reform Act of 1832, upon which time he retired. Nicholl was a staunch Tory throughout his political career and steadily opposed parliamentary reform and Roman Catholic emancipation.
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