Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir, 1851-1923 (Personal Name)

People and books, 1927: t.p. (W. Robertson Nicoll)

LC data base, 8-18-83 (hdg.: Nicoll, William Robertson, Sir, 1851-1923; usage: Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Walter E. Wace)

Letters on life, 1901: t.p. (Claudius Clear)

Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 30 June, 2014 (Nicoll, Sir William Robertson; journalist; b. Lumsden, Aberdeenshire, 10 Oct., 1851; after four years' training at the Free Church Divinity Hall, he was ordained; pleurisy and the fear of tuberculosis, which had killed his father, brother, and sister, ended his promising preaching career, and he moved to Glenroy, Highland Road, Upper Norwood, London, to devote himself to journalism; Nicoll was ideally positioned to write for the huge nonconformist constituency; Nicoll often wrote as "Claudius Clear"; knighthood in 1909; d. at his home in Hampstead, 4 May, 1923) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35236?docPos=14