John Bowyer Nichols

John Bowyer Nichols (15 July 1779 – 19 October 1863) was an English printer and antiquary.

Life Nichols was born at Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London, on 15 July 1779. He was the eldest son of John Nichols, by his second wife, Martha Green (1756–1788).

He died at Ealing on 19 October 1863, aged 84, and was buried at Kensal Green cemetery.

Other works

A brief Account of the Guildhall of the City of London, London, 1819. Account of the Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine, near the Tower, London, 1824,(based on the history of Andrew Ducarel, 1782, with additional plates). Historical Notices of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, London, 1836, (based on the publications of J. Britton and J. Rutter, with plates from the work of Rutter). Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, co. Wilts, with an Account of the Museum of British Antiquities, privately printed, London, 1840. "Notices of the Library at Stourhead" were contributed by Nichols to the Wiltshire and Natural History Magazine, 1855, vol. 2.

Nichols also edited:

Joseph Cradock's Memoirs, vols. iii. and iv. 1828; Anecdotes of William Hogarth, 1833, with forty-eight plates, a compilation from his father's ‘Biographical Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth’; John Thomas Smith, Cries of London, 1839; and History and Antiquities of the Abbey of St. Edmunds Bury by Richard Yates, second edition, London, 1843, 2 parts.