George Nicholls (commissioner)

For the American actor and film director, see George Nichols (actor).

Sir George Nicholls (1781-1865) was a British Poor Law Commissioner after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act. He had been an Overseer of the Poor under the old system of poor relief.

Works

Sir George Nicholls History of the English Poor Law (originally 2 Vol.'s 1854) then published by J. Murray (1899) with Thomas Mackay Vol.III From 1834 to the Present Time

Sir George Nicholls, H.G. Willink A History of the English Poor Law 1904

References

• Anthony Brundage, ‘Nicholls, Sir George (1781–1865)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
• H. G. Willink, The Life of Sir George Nicholls, K.C.B. (1898)