Tom Nickalls

Tom Nickalls (1828–1899) was a stockjobber on the stock exchange and one of the founding members of London Rowing Club.

As a boy he was sent to America to work for an uncle who had a livery stables on DEarborn Street in Chicago, where he gained first-hand knowledge of the surrounding terrain and an understanding of which routes would be of strategic importance for developing railways – information which proved invaluable when he returned to England work as a jobber on the London Stock Exchange.

A keen sportsman and for many years a Master of the Surrey Stag Hounds,[4][5] Tom Nickalls had a hunting lodge at Skalstugan in Sweden.

In 1893, he sent four pairs of Norwegian skis [6] as a present to his daughter Florence and son in law William Adolf Baillie Grohman who lived in the Austrian Tyrol – one of the earliest recorded uses of skis in Austria.

Tom Nickalls died on 10 May 1899 in Surrey, United Kingdom.