of Arches and judge of high court of admiralty). _b._ Lincoln’s
Inn Fields, London 21 Aug. 1797; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.C.L. 1823, D.C.L. 1825; barrister L.I. 1 July 1824;
advocate Doctors’ Commons 3 Nov. 1826; M.P. for Cardiff 1832–52;
one of junior lords of treasury 14 March to 18 April 1835; vicar
general of province of Canterbury Sept. 1838 to 1844; judge
advocate general 14 Sept. 1841 to 31 Jany. 1846; P.C. 14 Sept.
1841; chairman of Glamorganshire quarter sessions; member of
board of trade 21 Jany. 1846. _d._ Via Sistine, Rome 27 Jany.
1853. _bur._ in the English protestant burial ground at Rome 29
Jany. _G.M. xxxix_ 311 (1853); _I.L.N. xxii_ 134 (1853).
NICHOLL, JOHN (only son of John Nicholl, brewer, _d._ 1790).
_b._ Stratford Green, Essex 19 April 1790; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1843;
master of the Ironmongers’ Company 1859, compiled a history of
the company in seven folio volumes, the first six of which he
presented to the company 1840–4; printed for private circulation
Some account of the worshipful company of ironmongers 1851, 2
ed. 1866; collected in six folio volumes genealogical notes
made in the churches of Essex, and filled three folio volumes
with Essex pedigrees, and three others with pedigrees of the
various families of Nicholl, Nicholls, or Nichols; left in
manuscript collections for the history of Islington, and notes
on biblical criticism; privately printed his poems 1863. _d._ 8
Canonbury place, Islington 7 Feb. 1871. _bur._ in churchyard of
Theydon Garnon, Essex 13 Feb., portrait by Middleton placed in
court room of Ironmongers’ company 1851. _Nicholl’s Herald and
genealogist vii_ 83–5 (1873).
NICHOLLS, BENJAMIN. _b._ 1790; cotton manufacturer in Manchester
1816; built a mill in Chapel st. 1833; member of Manchester
town council Nov. 1845 to death; mayor 1853–5; alderman for St.
George’s ward 1855 to death; founded by his will the Nicholls
hospital. _d._ York house, Oxford st. Manchester 1 March 1877.
NICHOLLS, GEORGE. Ensign 66 foot 26 June 1799, captain 23 Oct.
1809 to 11 May 1826, when placed on h.p.; orderly officer to
Napoleon at St. Helena; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855. _d._ Rodney terrace,
Cheltenham 11 March 1857, aged 81.
NICHOLLS, SIR GEORGE (eld. child of Solomon Nicholls of St.
Keverne, Cornwall, _d._ 1793) _b._ St. Keverne 31 Dec. 1781;
ed. at Helston gr. sch.; midshipman on board the East India
company’s ship the Abergaveny 1796; captain of the Lady
Lushington 1809; captain of the Bengal, which was burnt at Point
de Galle 18 Jany. 1815, when he lost about £30,000, left the
service 1815; resided at Southwell, Notts. 1815, overseer of
the poor there 1821, reduced the amount of relief from £2,000
to £500 in two years by abolishing outdoor relief; resided at
Gloucester 1823, where he controlled the Gloucester and Berkeley
ship canal; superintendent of Birmingham branch of Bank of
England Nov. 1826 to Aug. 1834; established the Birmingham
savings’ bank; a director of Birmingham canal navigation to
death, chairman the last 12 years; one of the three poor law
comrs. 18 Aug. 1834 to 17 Dec. 1847; his two reports on the
Irish poor law 1836–7 were the foundation of the provision of
the Irish poor law act 1838, directed the working of the measure
in Ireland Sept. 1838 to Nov. 1842; permanent secretary of the
poor law board 18 Dec. 1847, retired 27 Jany. 1851; C.B. 27
April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851; author of Eight letters on the
management of our poor, By An Overseer 1823; The farmer 1844; A
history of the English poor law, 2 vols. 1854; A history of the
Scotch poor law 1856; A history of the Irish poor law 1856. _d._
17 Hyde park st. London 24 March 1865. _bur._ Willesden cemetery
30 March. _Examiner 1 April 1865 p._ 193.
NICHOLLS, HENRY GEORGE (only son of sir George Nicholls, K.C.B.
1781–1865). _b._ 1825; educ. at Trinity coll. Camb., B.A. 1845,
M.A. 1848; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Dean Forest 1847 to death;
author of The forest of Dean 1858; The personalities of the
forest of Dean 1863; Iron making in the olden times as instanced
in the ancient mines, forges and furnaces of the forest of Dean
1866. _d._ 26 Porchester terrace, London 1 Jany. 1867.
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.
1861. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 503–6; _Athenæum
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
1889. _Cornelia Nicholson’s A well spent life_, _memoir of C.
Nicholson_ (1890) _portrait_.
NICHOLSON, EDWARD CHAMBERS (7 son of Robert Nicholson of Lincoln
and Maidenhead). _b._ Lincoln Jany. 1827; educ. Uxbridge;
with a druggist at Andover; with Lloyd Bullock in Conduit st.
London; one of first students of Royal college of chemistry Oct.
1845–50; F.C.S. 1848; with Frederick Abel assisted professor
von A. W. Hofman in his researches in organic chemistry 1845;
for Fothergill & Co. Aberdare investigated the chemistry of
iron making 1850; with Simpson and Maule started a chemical
manufactory at Walworth, London 1853; introduced improvements
in manufacture of pyrogallol, ether and collodion; built a
factory at Hackney Wick for production of aniline and coal-tar
colours which acquired great importance and became an important
industry; discovered the arsenic acid process of manufacturing
magenta 1860; produced chrysaniline yellow, the lower phenylated
products of rosaniline, etc.; retired from business. _d._ of
cancer Carlton house, Herne hill, Surrey 23 Oct. 1890. _The
Times 27 Oct. 1890 p._ 10; _Journal of Chemical Soc. i_ 464–5
(1891).
NICHOLSON, GEORGE. _b._ Wheelgate, Malton 31 Oct. 1787;
instructor in art to Fitzwilliam family at Castle Howard,
Malton; resided Woodhouse Moor, Leeds; painter in oil and water
colours, etcher in copper, engraver and lithographer; painted
Tobit and the angel; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 3 at B.I.,
and 3 at Suffolk street 1831–2; published six etchings of Roche
abbey, Yorkshire. Malton 1824; Plas Newydd 1824. _d._ Filey,
Yorkshire 7 June 1878. _bur._ Malton old church _W. Smith’s Old
Yorkshire ii_ 90–2 (1890).
NICHOLSON, HENRY JOSEPH BOONE (son of John Payler Nicholson,
rector of St. Albans, _d._ 1817). _b._ Lisson grove, Middlesex
April 1795; educ. Marlowe, Hemel Hempstead, and Magdalen hall,
Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1835, D.D. 1839; F.S.A. 14
April 1853; F.R.S.A.; domestic chaplain to earl of Mexborough;
domestic chaplain to duke of Clarence March 1826; R. of St.
Albans 1835 to death; rural dean of St. Albans 1846 to death;
hon. canon of Rochester 1861 to death; proctor for the diocese
in convocation Aug. 1865; member of Numismatic soc. 1861; had
a collection of local coins; author of Some account of relics
at Cologne, considered to be part of the body of St. Alban,
proto-martyr 1851; The abbey of St. Alban 1851, 2 ed. 1856. _d._
St. Albans 27 July 1866. _bur._ St. Albans abbey 3 Aug. _G.M.
ii_ 411 (1866); _Numismatic Chronicle vii_ 12 (1867).
NICHOLSON, JOHN (eld. son of Alexander Nicholson of Dublin,
physician, _d._ 1830). _b._ Dublin 11 Dec. 1821; ed. at
Dungannon college; ensign Bengal army 24 Feb. 1839; ensign 27
Bengal N.I. Dec. 1839, adjutant 31 May 1843; defended Ghuzni
against the Afghans Dec. 1841, surrendered and was imprisoned;
brevet major 7 June 1849 for his services in the second Sikh
war 1848–9; an administrative officer at Bunnoo 1851–6, where
he reduced to order the most ignorant and bloodthirsty people
in the Punjab; a brotherhood of fakeers in Hazara commenced the
worship of Nikkul Seyn (J. Nicholson) in 1848, this sect lasted
till 1858; deputy comr. at Peshaware 1856; commanded the Punjab
movable column with rank of brigadier general 22 June 1857;
defeated the rebels at Trimmu Ghaut 12 July; marched into the
camp at Delhi 14 Aug.; defeated the rebels near Delhi 25 Aug.;
commanded the main storming party in the assault of Delhi 14
Sept., when he was shot through the chest. _d._ Delhi 23 Sept.
1857. _bur._ in new burial ground in front of the Kashmir Gate.
_J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers i_ 417–91 (1867); _R. G.
Wilberforce’s An unrecorded chapter of the Indian_ _mutiny_
(1894), _dedicated ‘To the memory of John Nicholson,’ contains
a view of his grave_; _I.L.N. xxxi_ 426, 564 (1857) _portrait_;
_Reynold’s Miscellany xix_ 349 (1858) _portrait_; _J. J.
Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 329–31.
NICHOLSON, JOHN (son of a carrier between Dumfries and Galloway,
and brother of Wm. Nicholson, the Galloway poet 1782–1849). _b._
in parish of Tongland, Kirkcudbright 1777; a handloom weaver;
enlisted in the Scots Greys; publisher at Kirkcudbright to
death; proprietor of the Stewartey Times. _d._ Kirkcudbright 11
Sept. 1866, left a son a bookseller at Kirkcudbright. _M. M.
Harper’s Rambles in Galloway_ (1876) 64–6.
NICHOLSON, JOHN (1 son of rev. Mark Nicholson, president of
Codrington college, Barbadoes, _d._ 1838). _b._ Barbadoes 1809;
educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; studied oriental languages
under professor G. H. A. von Ewald in Germany; Ph.D. of univ.
of Tübingen 1840; settled at Penrith in 1840; spent his life
in studying Eastern languages; a member of the Oriental soc.
40 years; contributed to J. Kitto’s Cyclopædia of Biblical
literature 1843–5; translated G. H. A. von Ewald’s A grammar of
the Hebrew language of the Old Testament 1836; An account of
the establishment of the Fatemite dynasty in Africa by Ali ibn
Husain ibn Ali 1840. _d._ Penrith Dec. 1886. _The Times 9 Dec.
1886 p._ 7.
NICHOLSON, JOHN. _b._ 1829 or 1830; assistant librarian in
library of society of Lincoln’s Inn, London 1843, librarian
11 Dec. 1877 to death; author of Catalogue of the Mendham
collection, being a selection of books and pamphlets from the
library of the late rev. Joseph Mendham 1871 and Supplement
1874; Catalogue of the printed books in the library of the hon.
society of Lincoln’s Inn, Supplementary volume containing the
additions from 1859–90, 1890. _d._ suddenly of heart disease
at his residence 228 Peckham rye, London 24 July 1894. _bur._
Forest hill, cemet. 28 July.
NICHOLSON, JOSHUA (son of Joshua Nicholson). _b._ Luddenden
Foot, near Halifax 26 Oct. 1812; apprenticed to a draper at
Bradford; resided at Leek, Staffs. 1837 to death, and travelled
over the United Kingdom for the silk manufacturing firm of J. &
J. Brough & Co. of Leek many years, admitted by them as partner,
title of firm being changed to J. & J. Brough, Nicholson & Co.,
he became the head of the firm which he made the most important
house in the trade; president of North Staffordshire Liberal
association many years; built the Nicholson Institute at Leek,
completed 1884 at cost of £30,000, the library contains 8,000
volumes, and 350 students attend the schools of art, science and
technology. _d._ Stockwell house, Leek 24 Aug. 1885. _W. Smith’s
Old Yorkshire ii_ 118–9 (1890) _portrait_.
NICHOLSON, SIR LOTHIAN (3 son of George Thomas Nicholson of
Waverley abbey, Surrey). _b._ Ham Common, Surrey 19 Jany. 1827;
ed. at R.M. academy, Woolwich 1844–6; 2 lieut. R.E. 6 Aug.
1846, colonel 20 July 1866, colonel commandant 28 June 1890 to
death; served in Crimean war July 1855 to June 1856, and in
Indian mutiny 1857–8; granted distinguished service reward 3
March 1881; commanded the R.E. in the London district 1861–6,
and at Gibraltar 1866–8; assistant A G. of R.E. in Ireland
1868–70; commanded the R.E. at Shorncliffe 27 Jany. 1872 to
1 Oct. 1878; lieutenant governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1878 to 30
Sept. 1883; inspector general of fortifications and of the R.E.
8 July 1886 to 25 March 1891; general 5 May 1888; governor and
commander-in-chief of Gibraltar 26 March 1891 to death; C.B. 14
May 1859, K.C.B. 21 June 1887. _d._ The Convent, Gibraltar 27
June 1893. _I.L.N. 8 July 1893 p._ 30 _portrait_.
NICHOLSON, NANCY (only dau. of rev. John Jackson, vicar of Drax,
Yorkshire, _d._ 1810). _b._ Drax 3 May 1787; _m._ Oct. 1811 rev.
John Nicholson, formerly an assistant in Mr. Jackson’s school
at Drax, then vicar of Drax 1810 and master of the grammar
school, _d._ 1850; separated from her husband Nov. 1814; a
great termagant, very eccentric, dishonest and a miser; was
burnt in effigy at Asselby, near Howden, Yorkshire 1850; joined
the church of Rome 1850 and again left it on being asked for a
subscription. _d._ Asselby 6 Aug. 1854, leaving considerable
property to her relations. _Life of Nancy Nicholson_; _S. B.
Gould’s Yorkshire Oddities ii_ 25–95 (1874).
NICHOLSON, NATHANIEL ALEXANDER (2 son of John Armytage Nicholson
of Dublin). Matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 26 Oct. 1843 aged
16; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1858; acted in Frank Talfourd’s burlesque
Macbeth travestie at Oxford 17 June 1847; author of The science
of exchanges 1861, 4 ed. 1873; E pur si muove 1866; Observations
on coinage, seignorage, etc. 1868, 3 ed. 1869; Matter and motion
1870; A shilling’s worth of political economy 1871; resided at 2
Oakland villas, Rathgar, near Dublin. _d._ 15 Feb. 1874.