Sunday, 9 March 2014
443 James Nicol
Constituency : Kincardineshire 1865-72
James's victory in 1865 was one of three Liberal gains in Scotland, offset by their failure to reverse the Conservatives' by-election victory in Aberdeenshire.
James was a merchant's son educated at the University of Glasgow. He had spent a long period in Bombay and he was a director of the Borneo Company Limited from its inception in 1856. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He made a fortune in cornering raw cotton supplies in Bombay and used the proceeds to set up his own merchant house in Glasgow James Nicol Fleming. He was involved in a number of business ventures with William McKinnon and in 1863 became a director of the City of Glasgow Bank.
Most of James's parliamentary interventions seem to have concerned the game laws or other agricultural matters.
James was 59 at the time of his election and died in 1872 aged 67.
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