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John Gough Nichols
John Gough Nichols (1806–1873) was an English printer and antiquary, the third generation in a family publishing business with strong connection to learned antiquarianism.
Life.
The eldest son of John Bowyer Nichols, he was born at his father's house in Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London, on 22 May 1806. Richard Gough was his godfather. He went to a school kept by a Miss Roper at Islington, where, in 1811, Benjamin Disraeli, his senior by eighteen months,
a trustee of many City of London institutions, and in 1804 he was master of the Stationers' Company.
Heirs and successors.
John Bowyer Nichols continued his father's various undertakings, and wrote, with other works, "A Brief Account of the Guildhall of the City of London" (1819).
John Gough Nichols (1806–73), John Bowyer Nichols' eldest son, was also a printer and a distinguished antiquary. He edited the "Gentleman's Magazine" from 1851 to 1856 and "The