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Vivian Nickalls
Vivian Nickalls (1871-1947) was a British rower who won the Wingfield Sculls three times and the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1891.
==Biography==
Nickalls was born at Farningham, Kent, the son of Tom Nickalls and his wife Emily Quihampton. He was baptized on 7 April 1872. His father was a stockjobber on the London Stock Exchange with a particular expertise in investing in American railroads.〔(Elizabeth Watkins ''Olga in Kenya'' )〕 Nickalls was one of twelve children, of whom his brother Guy Nickalls was also a successful oarsman. Nickalls was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and rowed with hs brother in the 1891 Boat Race. He won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1891 and the Wingfield Sculls in 1892 and 1894 while at Oxford. He joined London Rowing Club and with his brother he won the Silver Goblets at Henley in 1894, 1895 and 1896.〔(Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1839-1939 )〕〔(English Heritage Henry Taunt )〕 and won the Wingfield Sculls again in 1895.
Nickalls married in 1898. His sister Florence married William Adolf Baillie Grohman an Anglo-Austrian author.
Nickalls went into his father's stockbroking business. The family had connections and property in the United States, and in 1914 Nickalls went to America to coach at the University of Pennsylvania. On arrival he was quoted as saying that he did not propose to use or teach the English stroke, declaring that he considered the way they row at Oxford and Cambridge and the English rowing system in general as "very bad." 〔(ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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