Francis Nicholson, British Army general and colonial administrator (died 1727)

Francis Nicholson

British army officer and colonial administrator (1655–1728)

Lieutenant-general Francis Nicholson was a British army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of South Carolina from 1721 to 1725. He also served as the governor of Nova Scotia from 1712 to 1715, the governor of Virginia from 1698 to 1705, the governor of…