JOHN NICHOL BIOGRAPHY
JOHN NICHOL BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
NICHOL, JOHN (1833-1894). —Poet and biographer, s. of John P.N., Prof. of Astronomy in Glasgow, ed. at Glasgow and Oxf., and held the chair of English Literature in Glasgow, 1862-1889. Among his writings are Hannibal (1873), a drama, Death of Themistocles and other Poems (1881), Fragments of Criticism , and American Literature ; also Lives of Bacon, Burns, Carlyle, and Byron.