physician editor of Elizabethan
Born at Fort George, Scotland, he was the eldest son of B. W. Hewittson Nicholson of the army medical staff After a boyhood passed at Gibraltar, Malta, and the Cape, where his father was stationed, he entered Edinburgh University in 1841, in due time took his degree, and finished his medical studies in Paris.
1824–1892) was a British physician, known as an editor of Elizabethan literature. Becoming an army surgeon, Nicholson spent some years in South Africa, and saw service in the Xhosa Wars in 1853 and 1854. He was in China during the Second Opium War, and present at the looting of the Summer Palace in Beijing.
And in New Zealand took part in the Second Taranaki War.
About 1870 Nicholson retired from the army, and settled near London. He died 14 September 1892.
