Jonathan Nicholls
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Jonathan William Nicholas Nicholls (16 June 1956 – 13 March 2022) was the Registrary of the University of Cambridge from October 2007.[1][2] He retired from this post at the end of 2016, at which point Emma Rampton became Acting Registrary.[3]
Nicholls was educated at Culford School, the University of Bristol (first class English degree, 1978), and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (PhD, English, 1984). He was a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard. His career began at the University of Warwick, where he was appointed registrar, moving to Birmingham University in 2004.[4] He was a non-executive director of Graduate Prospects and a member of both the national Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff and the advisory board of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.
Nicholls, who was a Labour member of Warwick District Council, died following a car accident on 13 March 2022.[5][6]
