Ernest Wilson Nicholson, FBA, MRIA (26 September 1938 – 22 December 2013) was a British scholar of the Old Testament and Church of England priest.
[1] He later transferred to a grammar school, Portadown College, following the advice of a priest during a Boys' Brigade holiday.
[1][6] He later trained for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge, an Anglican theological college, completing it in 1969.
[7] Nicholson began his academic career in 1962 when he returned to his alma mater Trinity College, Dublin as a lecturer in Hebrew and Semitics.
He was granted a chair as Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture and became a Fellow of Oriel College.
[8] A memorial service was held on 29 March 2014 at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford.
They had met while at the same school and, after she tutored him in Latin for his university entrance exam, they entered a relationship.