Christine Nicholls

Christine Stephanie Nicholls, née Metcalfe, (born 23 January 1943)[1] is an author and former editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.

She moved around Kenya as her father took a series of teaching posts until he was employed permanently at Mombasa Primary School in 1954.

At this time Nicholls was a boarder at The Kenya High School in Nairobi, which she attended from 1953 to 1958.

[3] In 1961 Nicholls went to Lady Margaret Hall, in Oxford University where she received her MA.

[3] Nicholls joined Oxford University Press in 1977 as Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.