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{{Short description|British businessman}}
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| honorific_prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Lord Nickson
| honorific_suffix    = [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]]
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| office              = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br>[[Lord Temporal]]
| term_start          = 22 March 1994
| term_end            = 27 March 2015<br>[[Life peerage]]
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| birth_name          = David Wigley Nickson
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|df=y|27 November 1929}}
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| education           = Eton College, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
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'''David Wigley Nickson, Baron Nickson''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE}} (born 27 November 1929) is a British businessman, a former crossbench peer and a former President of the [[Confederation of British Industry]]. He was Chairman of the [[Clydesdale Bank]], [[Scottish & Newcastle]], [[Scottish Enterprise]] and the Government's [[Senior Salaries Review Body]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lord Nickson|url=http://www.thisisannouncements.co.uk/5226916?s_source=clna_zzzz|publisher=House of Lords}}</ref>
==Business career==
Nickson worked from 1954 to 1982 at [[William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd|William Collins Sons & Co]]. Ltd publishers, made director in 1961, joint managing director in 1967, [[vice chairman]] in 1976 and group managing director in 1979. He was director of [[Scottish United Investors]] from 1970 to 1983, of [[General Accident|General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation]] from 1971 to 1998, of the [[Clydesdale Bank]] 1981 to 1989, of [[Scottish & Newcastle|Scottish & Newcastle Breweries]] 1981 to 1995, of [[Radio Clyde]] 1982 to 1985, of [[The Edinburgh Investment Trust]] between 1983 and 1994, of the [[Hambros Bank]] 1989 to 1998 and of the [[National Australia Bank]] from 1991 to 1996. In many companies he was also [[chairman]] or deputy chairman at any time.
==Public service==
Nickson is a [[Freedom of the City#Freedom of the City of London|freeman]] of the [[City of London]], an Honorary Freeman of the [[Worshipful Company of Fishmongers|Fishmongers Company]]. From 1993 to 2002, he was the first chancellor of the [[Glasgow Caledonian University]]. He was Chairman of The [[Countryside Commission for Scotland|Countryside Commission]] for Scotland (1983–85), Chairman of the CBI in Scotland (1979–81). President of the CBI (1986–88). Chairman of the Government's Senior Salaries Review Body (1989–95), and Chairman of Scottish Enterprise (1989–93). He was Deputy Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk 1982. Vice-lieutenant 1997-2005. He was Captain in the [[Royal Company of Archers]], the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
Nickson was appointed a Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[1981 Birthday Honours]]<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=48639 |date=13 June 1981 |page=9 |supp=y}}</ref> and was promoted to Knight Commander (KBE) in the [[1994 Birthday Honours|1997 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=50948 |date=13 June 1987 |page=7 |supp=y}}</ref> He was created a [[life peer]] in the 1994 New Year's Honours and took his seat on 22 March 1994 as '''Baron Nickson''', of Renagour in the District of [[Stirling]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=53624 |date=25 March 1994 |page=4611}}</ref> He sat as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] in the House of Lords until 1999, then as a Crossbencher until he retired from the House on 27 March 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/2046/career|title=Parliamentary career for Lord Nickson|access-date=2020-03-22|website=UK Parliament}}</ref>
==Personal life==
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Nickson was educated at [[Eton College]], where his father was a Housemaster, then at the [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst]], where he became a Senior Under Office before being commissioned into the [[Coldstream Guards]] in 1949. He took part in the Trooping of the Colour Ceremony in 1950. He spent the next four years in the Middle East. His last job was Staff Captain 1st Guards Brigade before he left the Army in 1954.
A lifelong fisherman, he was Chairman of The Atlantic Salmon Trust, President of the Association of Scottish Salmon Fishery Boards, chair of the Secretary of State for Scotland's Atlantic Salmon Task Force (1997), and founder of the Cromarty Firth Fisheries Trust.
==Arms==
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|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|150px]][[File:Nickson Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]
|escutcheon = Azure a cross flory Or between four bezants on a chief Argent a wolf's head erased Proper.
|motto = Pedem Prolatum Refero Nunquam (Having Set My Foot Forward I Never Step Back)
|crest = A lion rampant reguardant Proper supporting a tilting spear Argent point downwards.<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019 |page=3812}}</ref>
|supporters = Two salmon Proper each charged with a hurt thereon a cross flory Or.}}
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