Harold Sprent Nicholas (1877–1953) was an Australian judge, journalist and politician.
Harold spent his childhood in Bothwell at the family property Nant, and was educated at The Hutchins School, before earning his degree at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
[1] Nicholas was admitted to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1901 and returned to Australia in the same year, where he became a successful journalist writing for the Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph.
[2] In 1933-1935 he was the commissioner in a New South Wales Royal Commission into the creation of new states, of which no results came.
[3] He was appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1935, and become Chief Judge in Equity in 1939, remaining so until 1948.