Herbert George Nicholas, FBA (1911–1998) was a Welsh historian and academic. He was the Rhodes Professor of American History and Institutions at the

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from 1969 to 1978, and was also a

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, from 1951 to 1978. He had been educated at New College and had been a lecturer (from 1938) and fellow (1946 to 1951) of

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. He was both a fellow of

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, and a Nuffield Reader in the Comparative Study of Institutions from 1956 to 1969. He was elected a

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in 1969 and served as its vice-president from 1975 to 1976.

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'', vol. 105 (2000), p. 507.

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1911 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Welsh historians 20th-century British political scientists Historians of the United States Alumni of New College, Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of the British Academy {{Wales-politician-stub