Bowyer Nichols

English poet and artist

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

Early life

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.^[1]

He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford.^[2]

Career

Nichols, a poet and artist, became a trustee of the Wallace Collection.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

On 4 August 1892, Nichols married Catherine Louisa Bouverie-Pusey, a daughter of Captain Edward Bouverie-Pusey (grandson of Hon. Philip Bouverie-Pusey and Lady Lucy Sherard) and Esther Elliot Hales (a daughter of Rev. Richard Cox Hales). Nichols had two sons and two daughters:^[2]

Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (1893–1944), a poet and dramatist who married Norah Denny in 1922.^[3]^[4]
Philip Bouverie Bowyer Nichols (1894–1962), a civil servant who married Phyllis Mary Spender-Clay, eldest daughter of Herbert Spender-Clay, MP and the former Pauline Astor (daughter of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor).^[5] Phyllis' younger sister, Rachel, married Sir David Bowes-Lyon, brother of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.^[6]
Irene Nichols, who married Sir George Gater in 1926.
Anne Sadelbia Mary Nichols, who married Henry Strauss, 1st Baron Conesford, in 1927.

Nichols died at Lawford Hall, Manningtree, Essex, aged 79, and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Lawford.^[2]

Works

Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems (1883), with H. C. Beeching and J. W. Mackail
Love's Looking Glass (1892), with Beeching and Mackail^[7]

References

^ Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. p. 455. ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Obituary: Mr. Bowyer Nichols – Artist and Man of Letters". The Times. 3 June 1939. p. 17.
^ Jenny Stringer; John Sutherland (1996). The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English. Oxford University Press. p. 492. ISBN 978-0-19-212271-1.
^ Pearson, John. Facades (1980), p.117
^ TIMES, Wireless to THE NEW YORK (16 February 1937). "H. H. SPENDER - CLAY, M. P. 26 YEARS, DEADD; Husband of Former Pauline Astor, Daughter of the First Viscount". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
^ "Sir Philip Nichols, Diplomat In Prague and The Hague". The New York Times. 8 December 1962. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
^ Beeching, Henry Charles; Mackail, John William; Nichols, Bowyer (1891). Love's Looking Glass: A Volume of Poems. Percival. Retrieved 17 November 2023.