Jonathan Nicholls

Jonathan William Nicholas Nicholls (16 June 1956 – 15 March 2022) was the Registrary of the University of Cambridge from October 2007.[1][2] He retired from this post at the end of 2016, at which point Emma Rampton became Acting Registrary.[3]

Nicholls was educated at Culford School, the University of Bristol (first class English degree, 1978), and Emmanuel College (PhD, English, 1984). He was a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard. His career began at the University of Warwick, where he was appointed registrar, moving to Birmingham University in 2004.[4] He was a non-executive director of Graduate Prospects and a member of both the national Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff and the advisory board of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

Nicholls, who was a member of Warwick District Council, died following a car accident on 15 March 2022.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ New Registrary for Cambridge
  2. ^ ‘NICHOLLS, Jonathan William Nicholas’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 12 April 2013
  3. ^ Office of Registrary, University of Cambridge
  4. ^ Cambridge News, 5 July 2007[permanent dead link‍]
  5. ^ https://usdaynews.com/celebrities/celebrity-death/jonathan-nicholls-car-accident/ [bare URL]
  6. ^ https://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/news/article/792/statement_from_the_chairman_of_warwick_district_council ‘’Warwick District Council’’, 15 March 2022


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