author
R. E. Cholmeley
Best known for John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub, this early-20th-century writer focused on dramatic imperial biography and military history. Very little biographical information about the author survives in widely available sources, which only adds a little mystery to the name on the title page.
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John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub
by R. E. Cholmeley
About the author
R. E. Cholmeley is a little-documented author remembered chiefly for John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub, a historical biography that was later preserved and distributed through Project Gutenberg. The book centers on the British officer John Nicholson and reflects an older style of adventure-inflected imperial history.
Reliable public sources available here provide almost no confirmed personal details about Cholmeley beyond the author credit attached to that work. Because of that, it is safer to think of R. E. Cholmeley as a largely obscure historical writer whose reputation rests on a single surviving title rather than on a well-recorded literary career.
For modern readers, the interest is twofold: the life of Nicholson itself, and the way Cholmeley’s book captures the tone, values, and storytelling habits of its period. That makes the work useful not only as a biography, but also as a small window into how history was written for a general audience in the early twentieth century.