Career
He had little success in any of these matches. Nichols also played for Norfolk and Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Championship, playing into his fifties for Norfolk. In 1927 he returned an analysis of 12.2–6–14–7 for Norfolk against Leicestershire Second XI. He stood in one match as an umpire: that between Minor Counties and the South Africans at Lakenham in 1924.
Nichols was born in Acle, Norfolk.
He died at the age of 73 in Thorpe, also in Norfolk.
