|
See also:NICHOLS, See also:JOHN (1745–1826) , See also:English printer and author, was See also:born at See also:Islington on the 2nd of See also:February 1745. He edited the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine from 1788 till his See also:death, and in the pages of that periodical, and in his numerous volumes of Anecdotes and Illustrations, he made invaluable contributions to the See also:personal See also:history of English men of letters in the 18th See also:century. He was apprenticed in 1757 to " the learned printer," See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Bowyer, whom he eventually succeeded. On the death of his friend and See also:master in 1777 he published a brief memoir, which afterwards See also:grew into the Anecdotes of William Bowyer and his See also:Literary See also:Friends (1782). As his materials accumulated he compiled a sort of anecdotical literary history of the century, based on a large collection of important letters. The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century (1812–1815), into which the See also:original See also:work was See also:expanded, forms only a small See also:part of Nichols's See also:production. It was followed by the Illustrations of the Literary History of the 18th Century, consisting of See also:Authentic See also:Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons, which was begun in 1817 and completed by his son John Bowyer Nichols (1779–1863) in 1858.
The Anecdotes and the Illustrations are mines of valuable in- See also:hero, and many tales are told of his stern See also:justice, his tireless activity and his commanding See also:personality. In the course of five years he reduced the most turbulent See also:district on the frontier to such a See also:state of quietude that no See also:crime was committed or even attempted during his last See also:year of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, a See also:condition of things never known before or since. On one occasion, being attacked by a See also:ghazi, he snatched the See also:musket from the See also:hand of a sentry and shot the See also:man dead; on another occasion he put a See also:price on the See also:head of a notorious outlaw, and finding every one afraid to See also:earn it, rode single-handed to the man's See also:village, met him in the See also:street and cut him down. But besides being a severe ruler, See also:Nicholson was eminently just. A criminal had no See also:chance of escaping him, so able and determined was his investigation; and a corrupt See also:official could not See also:long evade his vigilance; but he was deliberate in his punishments, and gave offenders a chance to redeem their See also:character. He would go personally to the See also:scene of a crime or a legal dispute and decide the question on the spot. Every man in his district, whether See also:mountain tribesman or policeman, See also:felt that he was controlled by a master hand, and the natives said of him that " the See also:tramp of his See also:war-See also:horse could be heard from See also:Attock to the Khyber." See also:Lord See also:Roberts says of him in See also:Forty-One Years in See also:India: " Nicholson impressed me more profoundly than any man I had ever met before, or have ever met since. I have never seen any one like him. He was the beau ideal of a soldier and a gentleman." It is little wonder that the natives worshipped him as a See also:god under the See also:title of Nikalsain. Nicholson, however, had a fiery See also:temper and a contempt for red tape, which made him a somewhat intractable subordinate. He had a serious See also:quarrel with See also:Sir See also:Neville See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
Chamberlain, and was continually falling out with Sir John See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence, who succeeded his See also:brother See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry as ruler of the See also:Punjab.
It was when the See also:Mutiny See also:broke out in May 1857 that Nicholson was able to show the See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal that was in him, and he did more than any other single man to keep the Punjab loyal and to bring about the fall of See also:Delhi. When the See also:news of the rising at See also:Meerut arrived, Nicholson was with See also:Edwardes at See also:Peshawar, and they took immediate steps to disarm the doubtful regiments in that See also:cantonment. Together they opposed Sir John Lawrence's proposal to abandon Peshawar, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to concentrate all their strength on the See also:siege of Delhi. In See also:June Nicholson was appointed to the command of a movable See also:column, with which he again disarmed two doubtful regiments at See also:Phillaur. In See also:July he made a forced See also:march of 41 M. in a single See also:day in the terrific See also:heat of the Punjab summer, in order to intercept the mutineers from See also:Sialkot, who were marching upon Delhi. He caught them on the See also:banks of the See also:Ravi near See also:Gurdaspur, and utterly destroyed them, thus successfully achieving what hardly any other man would have attempted. In See also:August he had pacified the Punjab and was See also:free to reinforce See also:General See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson on the See also:Ridge before Delhi. An officer who served in the siege gives the following word picture of him as he appeared at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time:
" He was a man See also:cast in a See also:giant See also:mould, with massive See also:chest and powerful limbs, and an expression ardent and commanding, with a dash of roughness; features of stern beauty, a long See also:black See also:- BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
- BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)
beard, and a deep sonorous See also:voice. There was something of immense strength, See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent and See also:resolution in his whole See also:frame and manner, and a See also:power of ruling men on high occasions which no one could See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape noticing. His imperial See also:air, which never See also:left him, and which would have been thought arrogant in one of less imposing mien, sometimes gave offence to the more unbending of his countrymen, but made him almost worshipped by the pliant Asiatics."
Before Nicholson's arrival the counsels of the commanders before Delhi, like those at Meerut, suffered from irresolution and timidity. As General Wilson's See also:health declined, his caution became excessive, and Nicholson was specially sent by Sir John Lawrence to put more spirit into the attack. His first exploit after his arrival was the victory of Najafgarh, which he won over the rebels who were attempting to intercept the See also:British siege See also:train from Ferozepore. After marching through a flooded See also:country scarcely practicable for his guns, Nicholson, with a force of 2500 troops, defeated 6000 disciplined sepoys after an See also:hour's fighting, and thenceforth put an end to all attempts of the enemy to get in the See also:rear of the British position on the Ridge. Nicholson grew fiercely impatient of General Wilson's
formation on the authors, printers and booksellers of the time.
Nichols's other See also:works include: A Collection of Royal and See also:Noble See also:Wills (r7Sc); Select Collection of See also:Miscellaneous Poems (1782), with subsequent additions, in which he was helped by See also:Joseph See also:Warton and by Bishops See also:Percy and See also:Lowth; Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica (178o-179o); with See also:Richard See also:Gough, The Progresses and Public Processions of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth (1788); and the important History and Antiquities of the See also:Town and See also:County of See also:Leicester (1705-.1815). Nichols was a See also:fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a trustee of many See also:city institutions, and in 1804 he was master of the Stationers' See also:Company. He died on the 26th of See also:November 1826. JOHN BOWYER NICHOLS continued his See also:father's various undertakings, and wrote, with other works, A Brief See also:Account of the See also:Guildhall of the City of See also:London (1819). His eldest son, JOHN Gouox NrcHoLs (1806-1873), was also a printer and a distinguished See also:antiquary, who edited the Gentleman's Magazine from 1851 to 1856, and the See also:Herald and Genealogist from 1863 to 1874, and was one of the founders of the See also:Camden Society.
A full Memoir of John Nichols by See also:Alexander See also:Chalmers is contained in the Illustrations, and a bibliography in the Anecdotes (vol. vi.) is supplemented in the later work. See also R. C. Nichols, Memoirs of J. G. Nichols (1874).
End of Article: NICHOLS, JOHN (1745–1826)
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!