John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols

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

He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford. 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). Phyllis' younger sister, Rachel, married Sir David Bowes-Lyon, brother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. 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.

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