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Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE (19 September 1849 – 5 November 1928), known as Sir Arthur Nicolson, 11th Baronet, from 1899 to 1916, was a British diplomat and politician during the last quarter of the 19th century to the middle of World War I.
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Early life
He was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Frederick Nicolson, 10th Baronet by his wife Mary Loch. Educated at Rugby and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he left without taking a degree, he succeeded his father as Baronet in 1899.
Career summary
In 1916 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Carnock, of Carnock in the County of Stirling.
Family
Nicolson married, in 1882, Mary Katherine Hamilton, daughter of Captain Archibald Rowan Hamilton, of Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down, and thus a descendant of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751–1834). They had three sons, Frederick Archibald Nicolson (1883–1952), who succeeded him as 2nd Baron Carnock; Erskine Nicolson (1884–1982), who became the 3rd Baron Carnock; and Sir Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), the writer and husband of Vita Sackville-West.