Nicholas, an English poet and political writer of the eighteenth century, was born at Marden in Kent, and entered at St John's College, Oxford; from which he was expelled for irregularity of conduct and libertine principles. Retaining great resentment against the university on this account, he abused its learning and discipline, and some of the most respectable characters in it, in a poem published in 1724, called Ocelus Britannicus, and in a book entitled Terra Filius. He published a Miscellany of Poems, sacred and profane; and The Convoication, a poem in five cantos, which was a satire on the Bishop of Bangor's antagonists. But he is best known for the share he had in the political paper called The Craftsman; though, after being the drudge of his party for nearly 20 years, he was utterly forgotten in the famous compromise of 1742. He died in that year of a broken heart, and was indebted to the charity of his booksellers for a grave.