NICHOLSON, Alexander Beaumont. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island 1845 — 1929 or earlier. Rev. Canadian Scholar. Son of Alexander Nicholson. Educated at Prince of Wales College, from 1864 at Princeton Theological Seminary (B.A.). He was Presbyterian clergyman who renounced his ordination to take the post as Principal of Cedar Hill High School (near Victoria in British Columbia) in 1876, but was soon forced to resign. He was two years minister in Lansdowne and from 1878 Lecturer in Modern Languages and Assistant Professor of Classics, from 1892 Assistant Professor of Latin and Greek and Lecturer on Comparative Philology and Sanskrit, from 1902 Professor of Comparative Philology and Sanskrit at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario (still there 1910), retired.

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Sources: Stray notes in Internet (Canadian university and church directories), the 1876 events in https://www2.viu.ca/homeroom/content/topics/people/sdpope.htm; Queen’s Review 1929, 111-113 in archive.org.