Jonathan William Nicholas Nicholls (16 June 1956 – 13 March 2022) was the

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of the

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from October 2007. He retired from this post at the end of 2016, at which point Emma Rampton became Acting Registrary. Nicholls was educated at

Culford School Culford School, formerly the East Anglian School for Boys, is a co-educational Private schools in the United Kingdom, private boarding school, boarding and day school for pupils age 1–18 in the village of Culford, north of Bury St Edmunds in ...

, the

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(first class English degree, 1978), and Emmanuel College (PhD, English, 1984). He was a Herchel Smith Scholar at

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. His career began at the

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, where he was appointed registrar, moving to

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in 2004. He was a non-executive director of Graduate Prospects and a member of both the national Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff and the advisory board of the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Nicholls, who was a member of

Warwick District Council Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined wit ...

, died following a car accident on 13 March 2022.https://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/news/article/792/statement_from_the_chairman_of_warwick_district_council ‘’Warwick District Council’’, 15 March 2022

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