Bowyer Nichols
John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols, 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.
Career
Nichols, a poet and artist, became a trustee of the Wallace Collection.Personal life
On 4 August 1892, Nichols married Catherine Louisa Bouverie-Pusey, a daughter of Captain Edward Bouverie-Pusey and Esther Elliot Hales. Nichols had two sons and two daughters:- Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, Great War poet and dramatist who married Norah Denny in 1922.
- Philip Bouverie Bowyer Nichols, a civil servant who married Phyllis Mary Spender-Clay, eldest daughter of Herbert Spender-Clay, MP and the former Pauline 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.
Works
- Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems, with H. C. Beeching and J. W. Mackail
- Love's Looking Glass, with Beeching and Mackail