Author:John Nichol

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John Nichol (1833–1894)

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Scottish man of letters, son of the astronomer J. P. Nichol (1804-1859), was educated at Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he had a brilliant career. Regius Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "J. N."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "J. N."

John Nichol

Works

• Fragments of Criticism (1860) (external scan)
• Hannibal: A Historical Drama (1873) (external scan)
• (ed.) The Poetical Works of Sydney Dobell (1875) (external scan)
• Tables of European literature and history, A.D. 200-1876 (1877) (external scan)
• English Composition (1879) (external scan)
• The death of Themistocles, and other poems (1881) (external scan)
• American Literature: An Historical Sketch, 1620-1880 (1882) (external scan)
• Francis Bacon: His Life and Philosophy (1888) (external scan)
• Carlyle (1892) (external scan)
• Byron (1899) (external scan)
• "Burns, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Contributions to the DNB

• Bell, Henry Glassford
• Dobell, Sydney Thompson

Contribution to EB1911

• "Burns, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Nichol

• "Obituary: Professor Nichol," in The Times (1894)
• "Nichol, John (1)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Nichol, John (1833-1894)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Nichol, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Nichol, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)