Courtlandt Nicoll

Courtlandt Nicoll (December 2, 1880 in New York City – September 20, 1938 in Water Mill, Suffolk County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Early life He was the son of Benjamin Nicoll (1855–1921) and Grace Davison (née Lord) Nicoll. His younger sister, Elsie Nicoll (1887–1947), married John Sloane, Jr. (1883–1971), chairman of W. & J. Sloane, in 1917. the nephew of William D. Sloan and Emily Thorn Vanderbilt. His father was a coal and steel merchant who, upon his 1921 death, left his estate three-fifths to Courtlandt and two-fifths to his sister Elsie, after providing for a $850,000 trust for their mother. His paternal grandparents were Solomon Townsend Nicoll (1813–1864) and Charlotte Anne Nicoll (1827–1891). Nicoll's uncle was De Lancey Nicoll (1854–1931), the New York County District Attorney. He was a direct descendant of Matthias Nicoll, an English lawyer, who emigrated to America with his uncle, Sir Richard Nicholls, the first Governor of the English Province of New York following Dutch rule under Peter Stuyvesant, in 1664. His maternal grandfather was James Couper Lord, son of Daniel Lord. He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated A.B. from Princeton University in 1903; and from New York Law School in 1905. Career He was an Alderman (28th D.) of New York City from 1911 to 1913.