Mary De la Beche Nicholl
Mary De la Beche "Minnie" Nicholl FES was a lepidopterist and mountaineer.
Family
Nicholl was born in Swansea in 1839. She was the daughter of Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn and Elizabeth. She had an older brother Henry who became a barrister. and two younger sisters, Amy Dillwyn a novelist and industrialist, and Sarah, known as Essie who became an actress after a divorce.Her uncle was John Dillwyn-Llewelyn of Penllergare who, along with his wife, Emma Thomasina Talbot, his sister Mary Dillwyn and his daughter Theresa Story Maskelyne were pioneers of early photography. Her paternal grandfather was the naturalist Lewis Weston Dillwyn and her maternal grandfather was geologist Sir Henry De La Beche. The Dillwyn family were originally Quakers and her great-grandfather was William Dillwyn, the anti-slavery campaigner from Pennsylvania who returned to campaign in Britain.
She married John Cole Nicholl on Swansea in 1860, and had six children. She died in Bridgend, Wales, in 1922.