John Nichols, 'With anger foaming and vengeance full, why belloweth John Nichols like a bull ?' John Bowyer Nichols (1779- 1863) was the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine. Image taken from A Benevolent Epistle to Sylvanus Urban, alias J. Nichols, not forgetting W. Hayley. A satire in verse. To which is added, an elegy to Apollo; also Sir J. Banks and the Boiled Fleas, an ode. By Peter Pindar Esquire. Originally published in London, 1790.