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Louise Nicholson

Louise Nicholson (Born 1st May 1954) was a British journalist, historian and lecturer who dedicated her work to the art and culture and history of India and London. She won the National Association of Professional Women’s 2010 Women of the Year Award (2010). She founded a non-profit organisation called ‘Save a Child’ (1985) that supported disadvantaged children in India with long-term sponsorships.

Biography

Nicholson was born in Pyrford, Surrey, United Kingdom. She is the 5th and final child of Roydon Joseph and Evelyn Sophia Carlton Nicholson. During her childhood, she attended The Furs and Halstead primary school in Woking and then later attended St Michael’s Burton Park High School at Petworth. She then graduated with a MA honour’s degree in history of Art from the University of Edinburgh (1976). In 1976 after graduation she started to work at a Victorian society, in London, where it campaigned to help protect 19th-century buildings through the listed building scheme and raising awareness of architectural conversation, in 1976 she co-founded the Twentieth Century Society with Clive Aslet (1955- ), Gavin (1948- ) Stamp and Bevis Hillier in 1978.

In 1978 Nicholson joins a Christie’s auction house, in London, that concentrates on Indian and Islamic art. And in 1981 she moved on to the Times newspaper as a journalist who wrote about art culture and travel, she also wrote for the Observer in London (1984-1994) and was a bi-weekly columnist for the Telegraph in Calcutta (1985-1993) In 1980 Nicholson married a journalist, broadcaster, and author Nicholas Wapshott (1952-) who explores and commentate on politics, economics and the arts. Both have two sons William (1988-) and Oliver (1990-). Later in her life, she contributed regularly to Apollo and Fine Art Connoisseur where she writes about art collectors, their collections, art leaders, museums, and fine art events where she would publish 26 books which are about India and London. Nicholson became an author in 1985 when she published her Guide to India in that same year she founded ‘Save a Child’, a non-profit working organisation in England that supported disadvantaged children in India through sponsorships later her Guide London was published in 1988 and founded the US chapter in 2011. In 1990, Nicholson was Executive Producer of the highly acclaimed six-part TV documentary The Great Moguls made for Channel Four. Nicholson is an active member of professional organisations and non-profit committees in the US. She won the National Association of Professional Women’s 2010 Woman of the Year Award.

Achievements

• She founded Save a Child, a non-profit that supported 300 disadvantaged Children in India through sponsorships all living in residential homes in Kolkata and New Delhi (1985).

• She wrote 25 books based on India and UK

• She owns a consultancy agency that offers advice and customised travel arrangements to India for individuals and groups, she leads small group tours herself for museums, art groups and businessmen.
• Started Working in a London Society that protected 19th-century buildings through a listed protection scheme. 1976
• She co-founded the Twentieth Century Society with Clive Aslet, Gavin Stamp and Bevis Hillier.1978
• She joined a Christie's auction House in London that specialises in Islamic and Indian art.
• She wrote for the Observer (1984-1994)
• In 1981 she moved to the Times newspaper as an arts culture and travel journalist
• She became a biweekly columnist for the Telegraph in Calcutta (1985-1993)
• She graduated from Edinburgh University in (1976) with an MA honour’s degree in History of Art

• Nicholson published her Guide to India and later in 1988 her Guide to London. She wrote 25 books based in India and UK.

• In 1990 Nicholson became an executive producer of a TV documentary called The Great Moguls for Channel 4
• 2010 she won the Women of the Year Award
• She became a member of the Writer's organisation PEN, Art Table, the Americas Council for Southern Asian Art, the couture council of the fashion institute of Technology, she is a board member of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
• 2011 she founded the US chapter of her non-profit SAVE A CHILD, which helps Indian children fulfil their potential through education to become self-sufficient.
• 2013 Nicolson lectures in India and museums and institutions in the UK and US on aspects of India’s and London’s art, history, and culture.