Robert Nicholas (judge)

Robert Nicholas was a judge and an English Member of Parliament who supported the Parliamentary cause in the English [Civil War].
Nicholas was elected Member of Parliament for Devizes for the Long Parliament in November 1640. He assisted in prosecuting Archbishop Laud in 1643. In 1648 he became Serjeant-at-law and in 1649 judge of the upper bench. He was Baron of the Exchequer in 1655.
Nicholas was not exempted from the Act of [Indemnity of 1660|general pardon] at the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. He was commissioner for raising money in Wiltshire in 1660.