Margaret Nichols Shurcliff

Margaret Homer Nichols Shurcliff

• American

Margaret, the youngest daughter of Dr Arthur and Elizabeth Nichols, became the spirited woman who won important tennis tournaments, studied and taught carpentry, and learned to ring hand bells and church tower bells with her father. She married Arthur Ashael Shurcliff, a noted landscape architect, at King's Chapel in Boston in 1905 and had six children. She, too, possessed the social conscience of the upper-class women of her generation and continued to teach carpentry skills to inner city children and to lobby for peace and women's suffrage. - Nichols House Museum, Boston

Lineage

• Father Dr Arthur Howard Nichols
• Mother Elizabeth Homer Nichols

• Sister: Rose Standish Nichols