Historical information

Robert Uriah Nicholls was born in Devonshire, England, and arrived in Victoria in 1853 on the Banker's Daughter, and Ballarat in 1854. He ran R.U. Nicholls &​ Co., nurserymen in Doveton Street North, Ballarat. He was a member of the Ballarat Horticultural Society for 51 years, and was President of the Old Colonists' Association in 1907.

Robert Nicholls died in 1910, and is buried at the Ballaarat New Cemetery.

Physical description

Portrait of R.U. Nicholls, President of the Old Colonists' Association in 1907