Bowyer Nichols

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

Bowyer Nichols, J. W. Mackail, and H. C. Beeching, by Frederick Hollyer, c. 1882.

Nichols was the son of Francis Morgan Nichols, an editor and writer, and was paternally descended from the printer and writer John Bowyer Nichols, author of Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century. He was educated at Winchester and Balliol[1] and became a trustee of the Wallace Collection. He had two sons, Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist, and Philip Nichols, a civil servant, and two daughters, Irene, who married Sir George Gater, and Anne, married to Henry Strauss, 1st Baron Conesford.[1]

Nichols died at Lawford Hall, Manningtree, Essex, aged 79, and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Lawford.[1]

The gravestone of John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Lawford