Sir Paul Douglas Nicholson, KCVO, KStJ (7 March 1938 – 17 January 2025) was an English industrialist and was Lord Lieutenant of County Durham from 1997 to 2013.
Having completed his period of active service, he transferred to the Army Emergency Reserve of Officers on 8 October 1958 as a second lieutenant with seniority in that rank from 13 April 1957.
[4] He transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army, on 23 November 1961 with the rank of lieutenant.
He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 2011.
In his youth he was a prominent amateur rider twice winning the Liverpool Foxhunters steeplechase in 1963 and 1965.