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JOHN NICHOL (1833-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 648 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:NICHOL (1833-1894)  , Scottish See also:man of letters, son of the astronomer J . P . See also:Nichol (1804-1859), was See also:born on the 8th of See also:September 1833, and educated at See also:Glasgow and Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he had a brilliant career . After taking his first-class in See also:classics, he remained at Oxford as a See also:coach . With See also:Albert See also:Venn See also:Dicey, See also:Thomas See also:Hill See also:Green, See also:Swinburne and others, he formed the Old Mortality Society for discussions on See also:literary matters . In 1862 he was made See also:professor of See also:English literature at Glasgow . He had already made a reputation as an acute critic and a successful lecturer, and his See also:influence at Glasgow was very marked . He visited the See also:United States in 1865, and in 1882 he wrote the See also:article on See also:American literature for the ninth edition of the Encyclopcedia Britannica—an article which is a See also:good example of his pungent (sometimes unduly pungent) See also:style . He See also:left Glasgow for See also:London in 1889, and died on the 11th of See also:October 1894 . Among his best See also:works were his See also:drama See also:Hannibal (1873),, The See also:Death of See also:Themistocles, and other Poems (1881), his See also:Byron in the " English Men of Letters " See also:series (188o), his See also:Robert See also:Burns (1882) and See also:Carlyle (1892) . A Memoir by Professor See also:Knight was published in 1896 .

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