Arthur Bell Nicholls

Arthur Bell Nicholls
Portrait of Nicholls in 1854
Born(1819-01-06)6 January 1819
Died2 December 1906(1906-12-02) (aged 87)
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College Dublin (1844)
OccupationCurate
Spouses
(m. 1854; died 1855)
Mary Anna Bell
(m. 1864)

Arthur Bell Nicholls (6 January 1819 – 2 December 1906) was the husband of the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. Between 1845 and 1861 Nicholls was one of Patrick Brontë's curates and was married to his eldest surviving child, Charlotte, for the last nine months of her life. He cared for Patrick Brontë after Charlotte Brontë's death and spent the rest of his life in the shadow of her reputation.[1] He returned to his native Ireland, remarried and left the ministry.

  1. ^ Alan H. Adamson (2008) Mr Charlotte Brontë: The Life of Arthur Bell Nicholls McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN 0-7735-3365-6