Herbert Charles Denton "Frenchie" Nicholson (1913 - 1984) was a horse racing jockey and trainer.
[1] Nicholson acquired his nickname after having been apprenticed in the French city of Chantilly to Charles Clout, moving to Stanley Wooton's stable in Epsom to continue his training.
He won the 1942 Cheltenham Gold Cup on Medoc II before the race was suspended for the remainder of the 2nd World War.
[3] Following the war he worked as a trainer in Cheltenham and was prominent in the training of jockeys both for steeplechase and flat racing.
He trained, amongst others, Pat Eddery, Walter Swinburn, Mouse Morris, Brough Scott and Paul Cook at his Prestbury stables.