About Nigel Nicholls
Lived 1938 – 2016 (aged 78). Nigel Nicholls was a civil servant.
Sir Nigel Hamilton Nicholls (19 February 1938 – 21 December 2016) was a British civil servant.
In 1982 he was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire having worked as Assistant Secretary at the Ministry of Defence during the Falklands War. Nicholls served as Clerk of the Privy Council between 1992 and 1998. On 21 October 1998 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. He died on 21 December 2016.
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Who was Nigel Nicholls?
British civil servant (1938–2016)
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Nigel Nicholls was born on 19 February 1938.
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Nigel Nicholls died on 21 December 2016.
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Nigel Nicholls was a civil servant.
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