NICHOLLS, CHARLES HENRY SINDERBY (1814-88) was born in England and educated there. Having been ordained by Dr Langley (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury), he was for 12 years engaged in clerical and scholastic pursuits in Leeds under Dr Farquhar Hook, vicar of St Peter's. He was very successful as a teacher, but in 1852, owing to ill-health, he came to Lyttelton in the Stag. Shortly afterwards he settled in Wanganui, where he was for a time curate of Christ Church and had charge of the industrial school for Maori children in Victoria Avenue, which was afterwards merged in Wanganui Collegiate School. He was for 20 years engaged in Wanganui parish and as chaplain to the troops. About 1871 Nicholls moved to Upper Hutt, where he was curate of St John's for 10 years before retiring. He was a good preacher, and a sound English scholar. He died on 11 Jan 1888.

G. V. Kendrick, Parochial District of Upper Hutt, 1935; Woon (p); N.Z. Times, 26 Jan 1888.

Reference: Volume 2, page 65

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