George Nicholls was a British evangelical pastor, and Liberal-Labour

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 politician who served as the Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for North Northamptonshire

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 from 1906 to 1910.

Nicholls started life as a farm labourer and smallholder. He went on to be Pastor at the Evangelist Congregational Church

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 in Chatteris

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, Cambridgeshire, from 1894 to 1902, and afterwards of Congregational Churches at Silverdale

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 and Chesterton

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, in Staffordshire

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He was elected as MP for North Northamptonshire at the 1906 general election

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, but was defeated at the January 1910 general election.

After his defeat he stood for Parliament again in Faversham

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 at the December 1910 general election, and in Newmarket

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 at a by-election in May 1913

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, but was unsuccessful on both occasions.

He was elected to Peterborough

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 town council in 1912, and became the towns's mayor from 1916 to 1918.

He was the chief organiser for the Allotment and Small Holdings section of the Agricultural Organisation Society, and a member of the Agricultural Wages Board, of a Royal Commission

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 on Agriculture, of the Central Agricultural Council, of the Soke of Peterborough Small Holdings Committee, and of Peterborough United Charities. He was awarded the OBE

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 and served as a Justice of the Peace

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After World War I

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, he stood unsuccessfully for Parliament on six further occasions. As a Labour Party

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 candidate in Camborne

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 at the 1918 general election

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, he narrowly lost to the sitting Liberal MP Sir Francis Dyke Acland. He then stood as a Liberal Party

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 candidate in Peterborough

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 at the 1922 general election

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, in Warwick and Leamington at the 1923

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 and 1924 general election

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s, in Bury St Edmunds

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 at a by-election in January 1925, and in Harborough

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 at the 1929 general election

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