Shirley Hall Nichols (September 26, 1884 - February 25, 1964) was a missionary bishop of The Episcopal Church in Japan from 1926 until 1940, and later of Salina between 1943 and 1955.
He was educated in the public schools of Montclair, New Jersey, and then attended Harvard University from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1905.
[1] Nichols was ordained deacon on May 18, 1911 by Bishop Edwin Stevens Lines of Newark at St James' Church in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
[2] He immediately left as a missionary in Japan where he was assigned to teach at St Paul's University in Tokyo.
He was then ordained priest on June 2, 1912 by the Bishop of North Tokyo John McKim.