Sir Richard Everard Nichols (26 April 1938 – 13 March 2016) was an English solicitor and the 670th

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. Nichols was born in

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, the son of Guy Everard Nichols and Patricia Mary Hurst. His father, clerk of the Salters' Company, died when he was 7 years old. With the assistance of the Salters' Company Richard was educated at

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, Sussex. He served in the

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, 1956–58. He joined a Watford-based firm of solicitors, becoming a senior partner in 1976. He joined the Salters' Company and became Master of the company for 1988–89. Encouraged by the Company he became a Common Councilman on the City of London council in 1983 and an Alderman in 1984. He was elected

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for 1994–95 and

for 1997–98. He was knighted on 4 November 1998. He served as Chancellor of the

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from 2002 to 2010. He married Shelagh Loveband and had two sons and a daughter. Around 1990 he jointly with others bought a 300-acre (120 Ha) farm in

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, Hertfordshire on which the family lived.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nichols, Richard 1938 births 2016 deaths People from Watford People educated at Christ's Hospital British solicitors Sheriffs of the City of London 20th-century lord mayors of London 20th-century English politicians Knights Bachelor Chancellors of Ulster University