[2] He was educated at Harrow School, from 1851 to 1855, and then at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he arrived in October 1855 and graduated Bachelor of Arts on 29 January 1859.
[4] At the time of the 1901 United Kingdom census, he was living at Eltham, Kent, now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, with two servants, a housekeeper and a housemaid, and stated his occupation as barrister.
He had suffered from a horror of being buried alive, and not long before his death he had asked one of the Executors of his will, J. W. Williams, to arrange for a surgeon to probe his heart and make sure he was dead.
[11] The university used the Fund to establish a new Quick Professorship of Biology, with a focus on the field of protozoology, and with George Nuttall being appointed as the first professor in 1906.
The full benefit of the bequest was delayed until some life-interests had expired, and at first Nuttall found temporary rooms in the new Cambridge Medical School building, where he established a Quick Laboratory.