Edward Nicholson (1839–1920)
Surgeon and ophiologist. MRCS (England), 1860. Army Medical Department; surgeon to the Royal Artillery; surgeon major, 1881. Stationed in Burma and Madras, India. Retired by 1891. Working for the Alfred Booth Steamship Company, 1901. Died in France. Wrote on Indian snakes.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/12/149/1), 1881 (RG11/157/67/3), 1891 (RG12/2876/70/21), 1901 (RG13/3419/2/32)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 November 2017)
Johnston 1917
Medical directory 1873
Liverpool, England, crew lists 1861–1919 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 November 2017)
Nicholson 1874.