George Nicholls (British politician)

George Nicholls (25 June 1864 – 30 November 1943)[1] was a British evangelical pastor, and Liberal-Labour[2] politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Northamptonshire from 1906 to 1910.

[1] Nicholls started life as a farm labourer and smallholder.

[2] After his defeat he stood for Parliament again in Faversham at the December 1910 general election,[6] and in Newmarket at a by-election in May 1913,[7] but was unsuccessful on both occasions.

[4] After World War I, he stood unsuccessfully for Parliament on six further occasions.

As a Labour Party candidate in Camborne at the 1918 general election, he narrowly lost to the sitting Liberal MP Sir Francis Dyke Acland.