Gerald Nicolls

Gerald Edward Nicolls was Archdeacon of Lahore from 1909 to 1912.
He was born in Allahabad into a military family and educated at Wellington [College, Berkshire] and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1885; and priest in 1886. The following year he married Eleanor, 2nd daughter of Colonel J. B. Hardy, RA: they had four sons and one daughter. He served the Anglican [Bishop of Lahore|Diocese of Lahore] at Peshawar, Karachi and Shimla before his time as Archdeacon. Afterwards he was Vicar of Skirbeck from 1912 to 1915, Winterbourne Down from 1915 to 1923; Bedminster from 1923 to 1927; and Bishopsworth from 1927 until his death on 28 February 1937.