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John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols (13 November 1859 – 2 June 1939), known as Bowyer Nichols, was an English poet and artist.

Early life

Nichols was the son of Francis Morgan Nichols, an editor and writer, and was paternally descended from the printer and writer

John Bowyer Nichols John Bowyer Nichols (15 July 1779 – 19 October 1863) was an English printer and antiquary. Life Nichols was born at Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London, on 15 July 1779. He was the eldest son of John Nichols, by his second wife, Martha G ...

, author of ''Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century''. He was educated at

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and

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Career

Nichols, a poet and artist, became a trustee of the

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Personal life

On 4 August 1892, Nichols married Catherine Louisa Bouverie-Pusey, a daughter of Captain Edward Bouverie-Pusey (grandson of Hon. Philip Bouverie-Pusey and Lady Lucy Sherard) and Esther Elliot Hales (a daughter of Rev. Richard Cox Hales). Nichols had two sons and two daughters: * Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (1893–1944), Great War poet and dramatist who married Norah Denny in 1922.Pearson, John. ''Facades'' (1980), p.117 * Philip Bouverie Bowyer Nichols (1894–1962), a civil servant who married Phyllis Mary Spender-Clay, eldest daughter of

Herbert Spender-Clay Herbert Henry Spender-Clay, (4 June 1875 – 15 February 1937), was an English soldier and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1910 to 1937. Early ...

, MP and the former Pauline Astor (daughter of

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). Phyllis' younger sister, Rachel, married Sir

David Bowes-Lyon Sir David Bowes-Lyon KCVO (2 May 1902 – 13 September 1961) was a British aristocrat who was the younger brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and uncle to Queen Elizabeth II. Early life Bowes-Lyon was born on 2 May 1902. He was the t ...

, brother of

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. * Irene Nichols, who married Sir

George Gater Brigadier-General Sir George Henry Gater (26 December 1886 – 14 January 1963) was a senior British Army officer and civil servant. Early life Gater was born in Southampton, the son of William Henry Gater, a solicitor, and his wife, Ada Mary ...

in 1926. * Anne Sadelbia Mary Nichols, who married

Henry Strauss, 1st Baron Conesford Henry George Strauss, 1st Baron Conesford, QC (24 June 1892 – 28 August 1974) was a British lawyer and a Conservative politician. Background and education He was born at 19 Pembridge Gardens, Kensington, London, on 24 June 1892. He was the o ...

, in 1927. Nichols died at Lawford Hall,

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, Essex, aged 79, and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Lawford.

Works

*''Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems'' (1883), with H. C. Beeching and

J. W. Mackail John William Mackail (26 August 1859 – 13 December 1945) was a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system. He is most often remembered as a scholar of Virgil and as the official biographer of the so ...

*''Love's Looking Glass'' (1892), with Beeching and Mackail

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nichols, Bowyer 1859 births 1939 deaths English male poets People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford