About Richard Nichols
Lived 1938 – 2016 (aged 77). Richard Nichols was a politician.
Sir Richard Everard Nichols (26 April 1938 – 13 March 2016) was an English solicitor and the 670th Lord Mayor of London.
Nichols was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of Guy Everard Nichols and Patricia Mary Hurst. His father, clerk of the Salters' Company, died when he was 7 years old. With the assistance of the Salters' Company Richard was educated at Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, Sussex. He served in the Royal Engineers, 1956–58.
He served as Chancellor of the University of Ulster from 2002 to 2010.
He married Shelagh Loveband and had two sons and a daughter. Around 1990 he jointly with others bought a 300-acre (120 Ha) farm in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire on which the family lived.
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Lord Mayor of London
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Richard Nichols was born on 26 April 1938.
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Richard Nichols died on 13 March 2016.
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