Samuel Nicholson (merchant)

Samuel Nicholson (1738–1827) was a London wholesale haberdasher, known as a Unitarian and associate of radicals.

[5] Nicholas Roe has suggested that Wordsworth's further engagement with radical English reformers may trace back to his connection with Nicholson.

[11] Keay places Wordsworth's own radical beliefs in the context of a period 1793–5 and contact with the views and milieu of the Society of Constitutional Information, to which Johnson also belonged: the Norman Yoke, and the Tory Bolingbroke's arguments on capital and corruption.

[12] Nicholson, in any case, is credited with Wordsworth's introduction into the London group of radical dissenters, including William Godwin.

[1] Their eldest daughter Caroline married in 1804 Thomas Hockin Kingdon, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

[24][25] Later in life Nicholson was owner of Waverley Abbey, which he bought from John Poulett Thomson.

[30][31] Laura Maria, the younger daughter, married in 1848 John Bonham Carter.