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SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON NICOLL (1851– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:ROBERTSON See also:NICOLL (1851– )  , Scottish See also:Nonconformist divine and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at Auchindoir, See also:Aberdeenshire, on the loth of See also:October 1851, the son of a See also:Free See also:Church See also:minister . He graduated M.A. at See also:Aberdeen in 1870, and studied for the See also:ministry at the Free Church See also:College there until 1874, when he was ordained minister of the Free Church at See also:Dufftown . Three years later he moved to See also:Kelso, and in 1884 became editor of the Expositor . In 1886 he founded the See also:British Weekly, a Nonconformist See also:organ which obtained See also:great See also:influence over See also:opinion in the free churches . See also:Robertson See also:Nicoll secured many writers of exceptional See also:talent for his See also:paper, to which he was himself a considerable contributor, the papers signed " See also:Claudius Clear " being among those from his See also:hand . He also founded and edited the Bookman (1891, &c.), and acted as See also:chief See also:literary adviser to the See also:publishing See also:firm of Hodder & See also:Stoughton . Among his other enterprises were The Expositor's See also:Bible and The Theological Educator . He edited The Expositor's See also:Greek Testament (1897, &c.), and a See also:series of Contemporary Writers (1894, &c.), and of Literary Lives (1904, &c.) . He wrote a See also:history of The Victorian Era in See also:English Literature, and edited, with T . J . See also:Wise, Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth See also:Century . The See also:knighthood bestowed on him among the birthday honours in 1909 was an See also:apt recognition of his See also:long and able devotion to the " journeyman See also:work " of literature .

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list of his publications is included in a monograph on Dr Nicoll by Jane T . Stoddart (" New Century Leaders," 1903) .

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