And tenfold talent, as I’m told, in Bow st.,
Where kindlier souls do congregate;
And though there are who deem that same a low street,
Yet I’m assured, for frolicsome debate
And genuine humour it’s surpassed by no street,
When the ‘Chief Baron’ enters and assumes
To rule o’er mimic Thesigers and Broughams.
NICHOLSON, Robert Lawrance (only son of Robert Lawrance Nicholson of Cambridge). Author of Lady Nell and other poems. d. Neuilly, near Paris 18 March 1880.
NICHOLSON, Thomas. b. Hunslet, near Leeds 1805; a wire worker in Manchester; a self taught French scholar; gave instruction in French at the Ancoats lyceum; wrote in magazines and newspapers; author of Visions of the muse, poems, and the Gallic lovers, a tale 1828; A peal for the people 1849; The warehouse boy of Manchester 1852; The thunderstorm 1857; The miser’s will, MS. 1863; some of his poems are in John Harland’s Lancashire Lyrics 1866, and others are in Gems of thought. d. Woodhouse, Lancashire Dec. 1863. R. W. Proctor’s Memorials of bygone Manchester (1880) 207–9.
NICHOLSON, Thomas. b. 12 March 1777; solicitor at Hertford 1803–24; town clerk of Hertford; under-sheriff for Herts. 1820–4; a barrister in Tasmania and comr. for investigating claims to grants of land. d. Hawkswell, near Bedale, Yorkshire 9 Sept. 1878. Solicitors’ Journal 21 Sept. 1878 p. 888.