Walter Nicholson

Sir Walter Frederic Nicholson, KCB (22 July 1877 – 28 February 1946) was an English civil servant.^[1] Educated at Balliol College, Oxford,^[1] he joined the Civil Service in 1899, initially working as a clerk in the Admiralty.^[2] From 1920 to 1930, he was the Permanent Secretary of the Air Ministry.^[1] He was then the government member of the board of British Airways until 1937.^[1] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1916 New Year Honours,^[3] and was promoted to Knight Commander in the 1922 Birthday Honours.^[4]

In 1939 he married the archaeologicist Dorothy Lamb.^[5]