Modern English biography

30 Nov. 1861 p._ 705, _and 7 Dec. p._ 769; _Watchman 27 Nov. 1861 p._ 391; _Two letters from Holland, addressed to the translator of Arminius by A. D. A. V. D. Hoeven_ (1826). NICHOLS, JOHN BOWYER (eld. son of John Nichols, printer and author 1745–1826). _b._ Red Lion passage, Fleet st. London 15 July 1779; ed. at St. Paul’s school; entered his father’s printing office Sept. 1796; helped to edit Gentleman’s Magazine and contributed to it under the initials J. B. N. and N. R. S.; sole proprietor of the Gent. Mag. 1833, sold it to John Henry Parker June 1856; edited with Richard Gough vol. 4 of Hutchins’s History of Dorset 1815; partner in firm of J. Nichols, son & Bentley, printers 25 Parliament st. Westminster to death; a registrar of royal literary fund 1821; master of the Stationers’ company 1850; printed nearly all the county histories published 1801–50; F.L.S. 1812; F.S.A. 1818, printer to the society 1824 to death; author of A brief account of the guildhall of the city of London 1819; Account of the royal hospital and collegiate church of St. Katherine, near the Tower 1824; Historical notices of Fonthill abbey, Wiltshire 1836; Catalogue of the Hoare library at Stourhead, co. Wilts. 1840; edited J. Cradock’s Memoirs, vols. 3 and 4 1828; J. T. Smith’s Cries of London 1839; R. Yates’s History of the abbey of St. Edmunds, Bury, 2 ed. 1843; and vols. 7 and 8 of his father’s Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century 1848–56. _d._ Hanger Oak, Ealing 19 Oct. 1863. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 24 Oct., bust of him by W. Behnes exhibited at the R.A. 1858, his library was sold at Sotheby’s for £6,175, May 1865. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 113–4. NICHOLS, JOHN GOUGH (eld. child of the preceding). _b._ Red Lion passage, Fleet st. London 22 May 1806; ed. at Lewisham 1814–6, and at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1817–24; entered his father’s printing office 1824; completed and edited his grandfather John Nichols’s Progresses of king James the first, 4 vols. 1828; joint editor of Gent. Mag. 1828–51, sole editor 1851–6, contributed many essays and compiled the obituary notices; F.S.A. 3 Dec. 1835; a founder of the Camden Society 1838, edited many of its publications and printed A descriptive catalogue of the works of the Camden society 1862, new ed. 1872; printed Hoare’s History of modern Wiltshire, 6 vols. 1822–44, in which he wrote An account of the hundred of Alderbury 1837; edited Collectanea topographica et genealogica, 8 vols. 1834–43; The typographer and genealogist, 3 vols. 1846–8; founded the Herald and Genealogist 1863, edited vols. 1–8 1863–74; founded the Register and magazine of biography Jany. 1869, which ceased after 12 monthly numbers; author of Autographs of royal, noble, learned, and remarkable personages, from Richard II to Charles II 1829; London pageants 1831, 2 ed. 1837; Description of the church of St. Mary, Warwick, and of the Beauchamp chapel, London 1838; edited books for the Roxburgh club 1857–60. _d._ Holmwood park, near Dorking, Surrey 14 Nov. 1873, his library was sold by Sotheby Dec. 1874 for £2,195. _Memoir of J. G. Nichols by R. C. Nichols_ (1874) _portrait_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries vi_ 193–6 (1873–76); _Bigmore and Wyman’s Bibliography of printing ii_ 76–7 (1884). NICHOLS, ROBERT CRADOCK (brother of preceding). _b._ 1824; printer 25 Parliament st. London; printer of the house of commons votes; F.S.A. 23 Feb. 1854; F.R.G.S.; proprietor of Highley manor, Balcombe, Sussex; edited for the Roxburghe club A fragment of Partonope of Blois 1873; author of The passage of the Col de la Temple and of the Col de l’Echauda, printed in Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ii 183–97 (1862; resided Highley manor, and 5 Sussex place, Hyde park. _d._ 26 May 1892, will proved 21 July, personal estate £171,000. NICHOLS, WILLIAM. Barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1818; commissioner for relief of insolvent debtors 29 June 1860; one of registrars of Manchester court of bankruptcy 21 July 1862; judge of county courts, circuit 21, Warwickshire 22 Oct. 1862 to death. _d._ Mentone in Savoy 29 Dec. 1864. NICHOLS, WILLIAM LUKE (eld. son of Luke Nichols of Gosport, Hants, merchant). _b._ Gosport 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; C. of Keynsham, Somerset 1825; C. of Bedminster, near Bristol; minister of St. James’s, Bath 1 Feb. 1834 to 31 March 1839; V. of Trinity church, Bath 1839–40; R. of Buckland Monachorum, near Plymouth 1846–51; R. D. of Tavistock 1849–51; F.S.A. 2 Feb. 1865; had a fine library; resided at the Woodlands, Somerset from 1870; author of Horæ Romanæ or a visit to a Roman villa, Bath 1838; The Quantocks and their associations, Bath 1873, 2 ed. 1891 with portrait; edited Remains of the Rev. Francis Kilvert 1866; left by his will to parish of Grosport funds for completion of a campanile, which cost with the bells £2,500. _d._ the Woodlands, midway between Nether Stowey and Alfoxden, Somerset 25 Sept. 1889. _bur._ Gosport churchyard 1 Oct. _Peach’s Historic houses in Bath_ (1884) _pp._ 7, 8, 9, 58; _The Bath Chronicle 3 Oct. 1889 p._ 3, _10 Oct. p._ 3. NICHOLSON, ALFRED. _b._ 1822; a player on the oboe; composer of The Belvoir polka 1852; That day, a song 1854. _d._ Leicester 29 Aug. 1870. NICHOLSON, BRINSLEY (eld. son of Brinsley Nicholson, surgeon 42 foot, _d._ 1857–9). _b._ Fort George, Scotland 1824; entered Edinb. univ. 1841, M.D. 1845; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1845; assistant surgeon in the army 25 Sept. 1846; assistant surgeon in rifle corps 27 June 1851; surgeon 9 foot 23 Oct. 1857 to 16 Dec. 1859; surgeon major at Cork 25 Sept. 1866, retired with hon. rank of deputy inspector general 18 Nov. 1871; served in the Kaffir wars 1853–4, the war in China 1860, and the Maori war in New Zealand 1864; edited for the New Shakspeare society the first folio and the first quarto of Henry the Fifth 1875, and the Parallel texts of Henry the Fifth 1877; reprinted Reginald Scot’s The discoverie of witchcraft 1886; edited The best plays of Ben Jonson, 2 vols. 1893; his edition of Donne’s Poems was completed for the Muses’ Library 1895. _d._ Surrenden lodge, Queen’s road, South Norwood, Surrey 14 Sept. 1892. NICHOLSON, CORNELIUS (his mother was postmistress of Ambleside 50 years). _b._ Ambleside 14 March 1804; with John Hudson a bookseller and printer Sept. 1825; established a paper manufactory at Burneside 1832, sold the business 1845; with Thomas Gough founded Kendal natural history and scientific soc. 1836 and was hon. sec; aided in forming Kentmere reservoir; a pioneer of railways in the North 1836 etc.; chief agent in forming Kendal gas and water co. 1846; mayor of Kendal 1845–6; lost his money by French revolution of 1848; managing director in London of Great Indian peninsular railway 1848–57; F.G.S. 1849; received freedom of city of London 10 Oct. 1856; chairman of Gas meter co. to 1877; resided at Muswell Hill from 1858, and at Ashleigh, Ventnor from Sept. 1879; visited Russia 1862 and 1863; author of The annals of Kendal 1835, 2 ed. 1861 with portrait; On the mental, moral, and social progress exhibited in the present half-expired century 1855; The Roman station, Alauna 1860; Lord Robert de Clifford, where was he buried 1862; History of the three royal charters of Kendal 1875; Scraps of history of the northern suburbs of London 1879; An account of Roman villa near Brading, Isle of Wight 1880. _d._ Ashleigh, Ventnor 5 July