British sculptor
William Grinsell Nicholl (London 1796–1871) was a British 19th-century architectural and monumental sculptor.
Life.
He was born in Marylebone, London in 1796. In 1822 he attended the Royal Academy Schools.
He exhibited in the Royal Academy from 1822 to 1861 and was highly respected. His studio was on Grafton Street East - off Tottenham Court Road, London
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography incorrectly states that in about 1849 he adopted his maternal grandchild, Elisabeth Nicholl who aged eleven had become an orphan. In time it was claimed that she had spititual powers.
Nicholl had 7 known children, the first born in 1821 and the last in 1843. Only the first two children (both female) married. In 1850 the family (except the first daughter) lived in Sydney, NSW, where he opened a sculpture gallery that proved to be unsuccessful and the family returned to London in 1854.
Elizabeth White lived with Nicholl in the 1861 census at 57 Teddington Low Road, Teddington, Middlesex using her correct birth surname of White and describing herself as Nicholl's married daughter. Nicholl's wife and unmarried children were living in Camden, London. On 19 October 1865 an Elizabeth Clara White born 22 January 1838 underwent an adult baptism at St Giles in the Fields, London, giving her parents names as William Grinsell &amp; Elizabeth and the family name Nicholl. 
Elizabeth White married, using her correct name, a wealthy man called Guppy and witnessed the will of William Grinsell Nicholl one week before he died in the family home in Churchfield Road, Acton, west London on 8 December 1871.
Family.
He married Emma Elizabeth Nicholson in Paddington, London, on 17 April 1821. Between 1851 and 1854 they lived with most of their children in Sydney, Australia. Nicholl's second daughter, Charlotte Anne (1824-1905), married John Russell an iron founder, 17 February 1855 in St James Church, Sydney and their son John Peter Russell, the Australian impressionist painter, was born in 1858.
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