Peter Nicholson Author
Chichester, UK
Published
The Brilliance of Sunbeams
The Brilliance of Sunbeams” describes the complete history of the Sunbeam class in a 270- page, lavishly illustrated, A4 landscape hardback.
This book It contains a collection of photographs right from the beginning – early photos in black and white, and modern photos in full colour. There is also a full history of the class – anecdotes, stories, sinkings, races, boat lists, tuning tips and some of the characters that sailed these delightful boats.
The photos and diagrams are high quality, sometimes breath-taking and clearly the fruit of some exhaustive research by its author, Peter Nicholson.
TO ORDER £25 +p&p: Email peter@peternicholson.com
All proceeds to the Solent Sunbeam class funds
A Family in History: History in a Family Part 1
From 1767, Gouldings from 1755 descendants, including Briscoes, to 2020,is more than just a family history. It is a social history.
It recounts attitudes to Christian faith, Victorian morality and liberalism; drinking, gambling, antisemitism & racism, Home Rule, Leather Trade Benevolent Society; Liberal Reform Club, suffragettes, the scandal of a Canadian padre in WW11; the start-up of the RSPCA, medicine, the arts, architecture, paintings, music and theatre, transport:, servants, failed businesses and electrical inventions.
The family history spans eighteenth century Newcastle, country house groom, nineteenth century Dockland London and prosperity in the suburbs.
There are chilling first-hand accounts of surviving wars and depressions – not to mention a continuing narrative of personal difficulties of members of the Goulding and Nicholson families.
Numerous stories bring the pages to life.
The mistake in Joe Nicholson's army records.
Bol’s lost Westminster Abbey painting submitted to Royal Academy.
Nurse Marjorie Nicholson’s death from Typhoid.
The contemporary accounts of the Kong Moon pirate attack that killed Howard Nicholson.
Letters of horse breaking from the Judsons in Australia.
Terence Goulding tried for drink driving.
Fred Goulding chatting with H G Wells.
Phyllis Hewkley, girlfriend of an eighty-year-old Fred Goulding
The mistake in 1879 of Charles Goulding’s surname being written as “Golden” in the parish records.
The sad note on the Wherwell burial records that great X2 grandfather Charles Goulding in 1816 had been "Found hanging by one of the…in the church am"
William Nicholson in 1767 choosing the faster route of a bond rather than having banns read out for his marriage to Margaret Weatherburn.
Hardback, 374 pages in A4, fully illustrated with many family trees that are also available on the internet.
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A Family in History: History in a Family Part 2
A Family In History: History In A Family, Part 2, Readers from 1759, Palmers from 1407 is more than just a family history.
It is a social history.
The ancestry through Lyon, Cornwallis, the Normans, Robert The Bruce and the early Kings of Scotland, the Dark Ages the nobles in the Middle Ages are accurately even link into the mythology of Greek and Christian legends of the Creation, with Adam and Eve.
On a structure strictly linked to the DNA of Readers and Palmers, stories bring the pages to life.
Bill Reader on Scouts Jamboree in Australia
Mike Reader’s experiences on Lord Southborough’s Reforms Committee the Indian Commission
The inquest into the coal bunkering accident that killed Lionel Reader
The four Reader daughters marrying into Italian nobility
Charles Marquis Cornwallis losing the Battle of Yorktown in America and as Governor General of Bengal
Major General Sir James Lyon serving under Wellington through the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Then Governor of Barbados with his portrait on a recent postage stamp to commemorate his role in the enfranchisement of the slaves
Brigadier General James Smith-Neil putting down the Indian Rebellion of 1857
The intriguing privately published account of William Forbes-Mitchell, who had served with Smith-Neill at Cawnpore and at Lucknow and then investigated the curse put on the family
How this led to the murder of Smith-Neill's son Major Andrew H S Smith-Neill in 1887
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, knighted for services as a lawyer for Charles II and mentioned in the diaries of Samuel Pepys
Ancestors held in the Tower of London
The tree stretching back to Adam and Eve
Hardback, 178 pages in A4, fully illustrated with many family trees that are also available on the internet.
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About
Peter Nicholson
He was Educated at Summer Fields, Wellington College (not a lot) and hitch-hiking round the USA.
Accomplished sailor of day racing keelboat, Solent Sunbeam V1, Dainty, built 1922, and wrote the class history The Brilliance of Sunbeams.
Chartered Accountant, financial director of a Sussex company, starting Malaysian catheter factory,
of the international Hunting Defence Ltd with management of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston and of local boatyard.
Latterly independent quality and safety systems advisor to businesses and harbour authorities.
Amateur genealogist - and family historian.
Genealogy research is like a jigsaw puzzle but without straight edges, without any boundaries.
Genealogy is also a Big Bang; the more you learn the more you realise how much more there is to know.
FURTHER RESEARCH
Research continues.
Though printed and published in hard copy Peter Nicholson continues to maintain updated digital copies.
Readers feedback with corrections, comments and additions are most welcome.
Just drop an email to peter@peternicholson.com
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