Nickson, Arthur E.

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Agent TypePersonHistoryArthur Ernest Howard Nickson, trained as an organist at the Royal College of Music, London, returned to Melbourne where he became organist at St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, and soon taught at the University Conservatorium of Music and at the Melbourne Grammar School. He remained at the Conservatorium for 55 years, and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Music in 1959 and became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1963. After his death on 16 February 1964, friends and pupils formed a committee which called a public meeting on 20 June 1965 to hear announced the establishment of fund for the cration of travelling scholarship in Nickson's memory. These are the papers of "Paddy" Dorum (Mrs. I.C. Dorum, Organizing Secretary of the Fund Committee).

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Nickson, Arthur E.