John Gambril Nicholson

John Gambril Nicholson

John Gambril Francis Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931) was an English school teacher and Uranian poet. He was also an amateur photographer. He was the quintessential Uranian, forming the center of that semi-underground world, and frequently writing introductions for and receiving dedications from his peers.

He had a love relationship with the teenage William Alexander (Alec) Melling, who was the dedicatee of Nicholsen's collection of Uranian poems, "A Chaplet of Southernwood."Nicholson was a member of the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society for homosexuals founded in 1897 by George Ives, which was named after the location of the battle where the Sacred Band of Thebes was finally annihilated in 338 BC. Other members included Charles Kains Jackson, Samuel Elsworth Cottam and Montague Summers.

Works

*"Love in Earnest: Sonnets, Ballades, and Lyrics" (1892)
*"A Chaplet of Southernwood" (1896)
*"A Garland of Ladslove" (1911)
*"Opals and Pebbles" (1928)
*"Romance of a Choir Boy", referenced in List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors

Further information

D'Arch Smith, Timothy (1970). "Love in Earnest". London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.


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