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NICHOLS, GEORGE ROBERT (1809-1857), lawyer and politician, was born on 27 September 1809 in Sydney, second son of Isaac Nichols and his second wife Rosanna Abrahams, daughter of Esther Johnston. Educated in England in 1819-23, he returned in the Thalia in May 1823 and was articled to W. H. Moore. His duties included forming special juries and taxing costs and in 1831 Governor (Sir) Ralph Darling alleged he was inefficient. At St James's Church on 23 March 1831 he married Eliza Boggs (d.1835) and on 16 December 1837 he married Susannah Eliza Barnes. On 1 July 1833 he was the first native-born Australian admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales. Nichols opposed the division of the legal profession effected in November 1834. The Bar disputed his ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography