Modern English biography

NICHOLLS, JAMES. _b._ Norfolk; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1852; M.R.C.P. 1861; medical adviser to Albert Life assurance society; author of Notes on Shakespeare, 2 parts 1861–2; and of papers in The Lancet. _d._ 13 Saville row, London 2 Jany. 1870. NICHOLLS, JAMES FAWCKNER (son of a builder at Sidmouth, Devon). _b._ Sidmouth 26 May 1818; a draper at Benwick in the Isle of Ely 1835; kept a school at Ramsay; traveller to a firm of paper-stainers at Manchester; a paper-stainer at Bristol 1860–8; city librarian of Bristol 1868 to death; the old city library was extended into three free libraries; F.S.A. 1876; author of The remarkable life, adventures, and discoveries of Sebastian Cabot 1869; How to see Bristol, a guide for the excursionist, the naturalist, the archæologist, and the man of business 1874, 2 ed. 1877; Bristol, past and present, an illustrated history of Bristol and its neighbourhood, 2 parts 1881–2. _d._ Goodwick, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire 19 Sept. 1883. _Biograph Nov. 1881 pp._ 493–7. NICHOLLS, JOHN ASHTON (only child of Benjamin Nicholls). _b._ Grosvenor st. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 25 March 1823; ed. at Manchester New college 1840–4; a life member of British Association June 1842; F.R.A.S. June 1849; entered his father’s business 1844; secretary to the Ancoats Lyceum, organised classes and delivered courses of lectures; helped to form the Unitarian home missionary board 1854, one of the first secretaries; chairman of directors of Manchester Athenæum 1856. _d._ of low fever at Eagley house, Manchester 18 Sept. 1859. _In memoriam, a selection from the letters of J. A. Nicholls_, _privately printed_ (1862); _Christian Reformer_ (1859) 639 _et seq._; _Wade’s Rise of nonconformity in Manchester_ (1880) 64 _et seq._ NOTE.--There is a tablet to his memory in Cross street chapel, Manchester; a granite obelisk in Great Ancoat st. was erected in his honour by the working men of Manchester July 1860. His parents devoted over £100,000 to the erection and endowment of an orphanage, the Nicholls hospital in Hyde road, as a memorial of their son. NICHOLS, JAMES. _b._ Washington, Durham 6 April 1785; worked in a factory at Holbeck 1793–7; ed. at Leeds gr. sch.; a Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Dutch scholar; tutor in a gentleman’s family; printer and bookseller at Briggate, Leeds; edited the Leeds Literary Observer, vol. 1 Jany. to Sept. 1819; printer at 22 Warwick sq. Newgate st. London 1820–32, and at 45 and 46 Hoxton sq. 1832 to death; a friend of Southey, Tomline, and Wordsworth; translated The works of Jacob Arminius 1825–75, 3 vols., vols. 1 and 2 by J. Nichols, vol. 3 by W. Nichols; edited Jeremiah and Lamentations by B. Blayney, 3 ed. 1836; The history of the university of Cambridge by T. Fuller 1840; The morning exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles by S. Annesley 1844; The divine legation of Moses by W. Warburton 1846; The poetical works of James Thomson 1849; The complete works of Dr. Edward Young 1854, 2 vols.; Poems by S. Wesley the younger 1862; The church history of Britain by T. Fuller 1868; author of Calvinism and Arminianism compared 1824. _d._ 45 Hoxton sq. London 26 Nov.