Family and Education
Nicholson was born in Lisburn, Ireland, the eldest son of Dr Alexander Jeffrey Nicholson (who died when J.N. was nine) and Clara Hogg. 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; 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. He then set out for a military career in India in 1839.
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