Richard Nichols (solicitor)

Sir Richard Everard Nichols (26 April 1938 – 13 March 2016) was an English solicitor and the 670th Lord Mayor of London.

With the assistance of the Salters' Company Richard was educated at Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, Sussex.

[2] He joined a Watford-based firm of solicitors, becoming a senior partner in 1976.

[2] Encouraged by the Company he became a Common Councilman on the City of London council in 1983 and an Alderman in 1984.

Around 1990 he jointly with others bought a 300-acre (120 Ha) farm in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire on which the family lived.