SIR

See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM

See also:

• ROBERTSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816-1853)
• ROBERTSON, GEORGE CROOM (1842-1892)
• ROBERTSON, JOSEPH (1810-1866)
• ROBERTSON, THOMAS WILLIAM (1829-1871)
• ROBERTSON, WILLIAM BRUCE (182o-1886)

ROBERTSON

See also:

• NICOLL, ROBERT (1814-1837)
• SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON NICOLL (1851– )

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