Joseph Nicolson

Joseph Nicolson (1706 1777) was an English antiquarian.

Life Nicolson was the youngest son of John Nicolson (d. 1727) the diocesan registrar and chapter clerk at Carlisle and a nephew of bishop William Nicolson. with whom he had three daughters and three sons. In 1728 he became proctor to the Consistory Court at Carlisle and in the subsequent year was appointed joint diocesan registrar for life. By 1768 Nicolson was acting as the agent of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland in Carlisle.

Nicholson had acquired his uncle's antiquarian collections and these formed the basis of the two volume History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, which he compiled with Richard Burn. He died shortly before the work was published.