Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Albert Nicholas, MBE, (4 May 1897 - 1956) was the sixteenth Postmaster General of Ceylon, serving between 1951 and 1956, and the second Ceylonese to hold the post.[1]
Victor Albert Nicholas was born on 4 May 1897 in Badulla, the third child of Joseph Richard Nicholas and Rose née Anthony. He received his secondary education at Kingswood College, Kandy. He joined the Post and Telecommunications Department of Ceylon in 1915, at the age of 18. Following the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in March 1917, serving with the Royal Engineers on the Western Front and in German East Africa.[2] He was discharged from service in January 1920, whereupon he re-joined the Post Department. On 3 June 1922 he married Constance Mildred Fernando, the daughter of Alfred Michael Fernando (1870-1930) and Mabel Elsie née Bartholomeusz (1875-1901).
He retired in early 1956 and on 1 April 1956 was appointed to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Board.[5][6] He died in London in the same year, at the age of 59.[7]
Referencesedit
^"Appreciations". The Sunday Times. 28 February 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
^Blaze, Louis Edmund (1934). K. F. E., the Story of Kingswood, Kandy. Colombo Apothecaries Company. p. 106.
^Ceylon: "No. 38932". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1950. p. 2817.
^Jeganathan, Thomas Benjamin. "13th year remembrance of Mervyn St Clair Anthony Nicholas". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
^"Commonwealth Telecommunications Board - Fifth General Report". London. 1956. p. 4.
^Office of Commonwealth Relations (1957). The Commonwealth Relations Office Year Book. Vol. 6. H. M. Stationery Office. p. 42.
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