Author: John Henry Nicholson
Born: 12 June 1838
Died: 30 June 1923
Bio: John Henry Nicholson was born at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, educated at Croft House academy, and emigrated to New South Wales, Australia in 1854. He went to Queensland in 1859 and opened a private school at Toowoomba in 1860, followed by a school at Warwick in 1863. He joined the Queensland education department in May 1865 as an assistant teacher.

Between 1867 and 1878 he published three little books of miscellaneous prose and satirical verse. In 1873 he wrote The Adventures of Halek, an allegorical history of a man's life on the earth, which was published in London in 1882. In 1894 he retired from teaching, and was appointed registrar of births, marriages and deaths at Nundah near Brisbane. A second edition of Halek was published in 1896 at Brisbane, and a third appeared in 1904. In the same year Almoni, described as a companion volume to Halek, was also published at Brisbane.

When Nicholson was approaching 70 years of age a woman who admired his work came to Australia from California and they married.