John Nicholl F.S.A. (1790–1871) was an English antiquary.

Life

Nicholl was born at Stratford Green, Essex.[1] His father, a brewer, died a few months later. In 1822 he married Elizabeth Sarah Rahn, whose family had arrived in England from France following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.[1] They had three sons (Edward Hadham, John and Conrad Rahn) and two daughters (Elizabeth and Mary Augusta).[2] He died at his home in Islington and was buried at Theydon Garnon, Essex.[1]

Nicholl extended an interest in his own family's genealogy to that of the wider Essex gentry and worked on the archives of the Ironmongers Company (of which he was a member). In 1842 and 1843 he traveled in Europe, compiling architectural and landscape sketches and collecting further genealogical material. In 1843 he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[1] He compiled a History of the Ironmongers Company,[2] which he served as master in 1859.[1] He also wrote poetry, a collection of which he had privately printed.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Goodwin, Gordon; Erben, Michael (revised) (2004). "Nicholl, John (1790–1871)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20106. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 Nicholl, John (1866). Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers (2nd ed.). p. 506.
  3. ↑ Nicholl, John (1863). Poems. pp. 3–8.
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