James Nichols (1785–1861): Master printer and theological writer. Born in County Durham and brought up in Yorkshire, his early career was as a provincial printer. He moved to London in 1820. A keen promoter of Methodism, he published the proceedings of the first Methodist missionary meeting in Leeds (1813), printed the Arminian or Methodist Magazine (1831–1861), and edited Samuel Wesley’s Poems (1842, 1862). He was also interested in English and European religious history, and in 1824 he published Calvinism and Arminianism Compared in Their Principles and Tendency. He sent a copy to Southey, who expressed his admiration for Nichols’s scholarship.