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.