John Henry Nicholson

John Henry Nicholson was born at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, educated at Croft House academy, and emigrated to New South Wales, Australia in 1854. He went to Queensland in 1859 and opened a private school at Toowoomba in 1860, followed by a school at Warwick in 1863. He joined the Queensland education department in May 1865 as an assistant teacher. Between 1867 and 1878 he published three little books of miscellaneous prose and satirical verse. In 1873 he wrote The …