Born on November 5th, 1814, the son of the Rev Thomas Vere Richard Nicoll, Rector of Cherrington, Warwickshire, and a grandson of the Rev Richard Nicoll, DD, of Boddicott, Oxon, who married Vere Wickham, a niece of the sixth and last Viscount Saye and Sele. He was thus of Founder's kin at Winchester College, but though he had the right he was not sent to a free education there, but was privately educated, and received his medical training at University College, St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in Paris. In 1839 he was an undergraduate of the then University of London. After qualifying he entered the Army Medical Service, serving with the staff in the Bermudas. He afterwards entered the Grenadier Guards and served with them through the Crimean Campaign, receiving the Medal and Clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish Medal; and again with the same regiment as Surgeon Major in Canada 1861-1864. Retiring in 1866, he was elected Resident Medical Officer to the Charterhouse, and held this post at his death, when he was also a member of the Hunterian and Pathological Societies and of the British Medical Association, having been for nearly two years a Member of the Council of the Metropolitan Counties Branch. He died at the Charterhouse on May 14th, 1879, much beloved and mourned by his many friends and old brother-officers. Free from all self-assertion, those who knew him most intimately recognized in him one well versed in his profession, upright, honourable, and sincere - in short, a gentleman. He married in 1850 a daughter of Sir Alexander Morison, MD, and left two sons and two daughters. Colonel Johnston (*RAMC Roll*, No 4602) gives his appointments as Assistant Surgeon, Grenadier Guards, June 26th, 1840; Staff, June 9th, 1843; Grenadier Guards, February 7th, 1845; Battalion Surgeon, Grenadier Guards, December 29th, 1854; Surgeon Major in the Army on completion of twenty years' full-pay service, June 26th, 1860, under the Royal Warrant of October 1st, 1858, but continued in his regiment in the rank of Battalion Surgeon; retired on half pay, October 30th, 1866.