Joseph Shield Nicholson, FBA, FRSE (9 November 1850 – 12 May 1927) was an English economist. He was born in Wrawby in Lincolnshire on 9 November 1850 the only son of Rev Thomas Nicholson, minister of Banbury, and his wife, Mary Anne Grant. He was educated at Lewisham School in London.[1] Nicholson studied Logic and Metaphysics at King's College London and the University of Edinburgh, then studied Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, and Heidelberg. He was a private tutor at Cambridge from 1876 to 1880 coming to fame in 1877 when he won the Cambridge Cobden Club prize for his essay "The Effects of Machinery on Wages".[2] In 1880 he became a Professor of political economy at Edinburgh University. At this time he lived at 15 Jordan Lane in the Morningside district.[3] He was the first President of the Scottish Society of Economists, serving from its creation in 1897 until 1903.[4] In 1884 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Chrystal, Alexander Crum Brown, Alexander Buchan, and Peter Guthrie Tait.[5] In later life, he lived at 3 Belford Park near Dean Village in Edinburgh.[6] Nicholson resigned his chair due to ill health in 1925 and died in Edinburgh on 12 May 1927.[7] He is buried with his wife, Jane (Jeannie) Walmsley Hodgson, in the 20th-century extension to Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, in the central section. Less