NICOLS ON

Alexander (son of Malcolm Nicols on of Husabost in Skye). b. Husabost 27 Sept. 1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb., B.A. 1850, hon. M.A. 1859, LL.D. 1880; one of the sub-editors of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; editor of Edinburgh Guardian 1855; edited the Daily Expre for one year; contributed to the Scotsman; called to Scottish bar 1860; reported law cases for the Scottish Jurist ten years, edited it latterly; a istant comr. of education 1865 when he produced a blue book on the Western and Northern Highlands; sheriff substitute of Kirk cud bright 1872; comr. to inquire into condition of the crofters 1883; sheriff substitute of Greenock 1885–9; author of The lay of the Beanmòhr, a song of the Sudreyar 1867; edited D. Macintosh’s A collection of Gaelic proverbs 1881, 2 ed. 1882; Memoirs of Adam Black, M.P. 1885, 2 ed. 1885; he revised the Gaelic Scriptures for the soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. d. Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1893. bur. Warriston cemet. Verses by A. Nicols on with memoir by W. Smith (1893) portrait ; Scottish law review ix 38–40; D. H. Edwards’s Modern Scottish poets , 3rd series (1880) 417–9.