Philip Houlbrooke Nicklin (1786 – 2 March 1842)[1] was an American bookseller, publisher and writer. In 1829, Nicklin was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[2] In 1834, a trustee himself, he reported to the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania "concerning the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England".[3]

Nicklin studied at Nassau Hall graduating in 1804. He died suddenly in Philadelphia in 1842.[1]

Bibliography

  • Letters Descriptive of the Virginia Springs (1835) (as Peregrine Prolix)
  • A Pleasant Peregrination Through the Prettiest Parts of Pennsylvania (1836) (as Peregrine Prolix)
  • A Report Made to the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, etc... (1834)
  • Remarks on Literary Property incorporating work by Joseph Lowe

References

  1. 1 2 Simpson, Henry (1859). The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians, Now Deceased. Philadelphia: W. Brotherhead. p. 744.
  2. ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "A Report Made to the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, at ... (1834)". Retrieved 7 July 2014.

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