His second wife was Edith Maud Cliff OBE from Leeds who was the Commandant of Gledhow Hall Military Hospital during the Great War.

[13] In the 1830s, Nussey's father had started a woollen manufacturing business with his two brothers, Obadiah – Mayor of Leeds in 1864[14] – and Joseph, and this grew into a large and successful enterprise.

Nussey held Liberal political views and was said to have remained faithful to the ideas and policies of William Ewart Gladstone all his life.

[6] He first stood for Parliament at the 1892 general election in the Maidstone division of Kent but in June 1893 there was a by-election in the Pontefract constituency in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[6] Nussey died at his home, Sutton Howgrave, Bedale[9] in the North Riding of Yorkshire on 12 October 1947 aged exactly 79 years.