Victor Nicholson

Victor Rylands Nicholson (25 August 1892 – 11 April 1946) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played one first-class match for Otago in 1914/15.^[1]

Victor Nicholson

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Full name	Victor Rylands Nicholson
Born	(1892-08-25)25 August 1892 Melbourne, Australia
Died	11 April 1946(1946-04-11) (aged 53) Maungaturoto, New Zealand
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 May 2016

Nicholson was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and Otago Medical School and worked as a surgeon at the Auckland Hospital.^[2] In 1928, he moved to England to work as a surgeon in Coventry, returning to New Zealand in 1945, where he worked as the superintendent of the Nurse Cavell Memorial Hospital in Paparoa.^[2][3] On 11 April 1946, Nicholson was travelling as a passenger in a truck from Pahi to Maungaturoto when the truck crashed into a creek near Maungaturoto. Another passenger managed to free the driver, but could not rescue Nicholson, who drowned in the truck.^[3]