Sir Walter Frederic Nicholson, KCB (22 July 1877 – 28 February 1946) was an English civil servant.[1] Educated at Balliol College, Oxford,[1] he joined the Civil Service in 1899, initially working as a clerk in the Admiralty.[2] From 1920 to 1930, he was the Permanent Secretary of the Air Ministry.[1] He was then the government member of the board of British Airways until 1937.[1] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1916 New Year Honours,[3] and was promoted to Knight Companion in the 1922 Birthday Honours.[4]
In 1939 he married the archaeologicist Dorothy Lamb.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Sir Walter Nicholson", The Times (London), 2 March 1946, p. 6. Gale CS103367266.
- ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, 13 October 1899 (issue 11136), p. 9.
- ^ The London Gazette, 31 December 1915 (supplement, issue 29423), p. 81.
- ^ The London Gazette, 2 June 1922 (supplement, issue 32716), p. 4322.
- ^ Gill, David. "Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967): A Pioneering Mediterranean Field-Archaeologist" (PDF). Brown University. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
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