George Gurney Nicol

George Gurney Mather Nicol (1856-1888) was a Sierra Leonean clergyman.

[3] George Gurney Mather Nicol was born into an elite Sierra Leone Creole family: he was a grandson of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, and the son of the mathematics teacher and clergyman George Croley Nicol.

[3][4] Born on 22 February 1856 at Freetown, he was educated in England, at Monkton Combe School and Sydney College, Bath.

Like his father, he taught mathematics at Fourah Bay College, and became a Colonial Chaplain.

[1] Ordained deacon in 1883, he became a curate at Church of the Holy Trinity, Freetown.