Surname: Nicoll Forename(s): William Robertson b. 10 October 1851. d. 4 May 1923. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, editor, and Free Church minister. Born in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire. Educated at
the University of Aberdeen. Retired from the ministry in 1885 due to ill health. Editor
of The Expositor (from 1884), founder of the British Weekly (in 1886), and founding editor of the The Bookman (in 1891). Chief literary adviser to Hodder and Stoughton. Biographical information:
Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robertson_Nicoll> (21 March 2021).
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