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NICOLL, SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON (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
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
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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
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