Education
Kit Nicholson was educated at Gresham"s School, Holt, from 1917 to 1922, and then read architecture at Saint John"s College, Cambridge.
Kit Nicholson was educated at Gresham"s School, Holt, from 1917 to 1922, and then read architecture at Saint John"s College, Cambridge.
Kit Nicholson was the fourth child of the artists William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde. After graduation, Nicholson taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture, where one of his pupils was Hugh Casson. They later went into partnership together in an architectural firm.
Through his major projects of the 1930s, Nicholson contributed to the development of Modernism in Great Britain.
In 1931 Nicholson married Elsie Queen Myers, best known as the fabric designer EQ Nicholson. In the late 1940s, he designed aeroplane livery, and radio and television sets.
A gliding enthusiast, Nicholson died at age 44 on 28 July 1948 in a gliding accident in Italy.