# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-nicholson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:17:20.022Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-nicholson"
name: "Francis Nicholson"
slug: "francis-nicholson"
description: "Lieutenant-General Francis Nicholson was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of South Carolina from 1721 to 1725. He also served as the governor of Nova Scotia from 1712 to 1715, the governor of Virginia from 1698 to 1705, the governor of Maryland from 1694 to 1698, the lieutenant-governor of Virginia from 1690 to 1692 and the lieutenant-governor of the Dominion of New England from 1688 to 1689."
tagline: "British general and colonial official"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_nicholson_Dahl.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1655-11-12"
deathDate: "1728-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.755221333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Николсон, Фрэнсис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسيس نيكلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Nicholson"
    title: "Francis Nicholson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Nicholson"
    title: "Francis Nicholson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسیس نیکلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Nicholson"
    title: "Francis Nicholson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "フランシス・ニコルソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5482046"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump