Arthur Wyllie Nicol was born in Surrey, England in 1912 and studied at the Architectural Association School in London where he was a Henry Jarvis Student in 1937. He was one of the founding members of the Architects' Co-operative Partnership (ACP) [in 1951 renamed the Architects' Co-Partnership (ACP)], an architectural co-operative formed in London in the summer of 1939 by eleven diploma graduates of the Architectural Association.
His address was given as 10 High Point, North Hill, London in 1939; and Noahs House, Spade Oak Reach, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire in 1940. He died in Egham, Surrey on 8 March 1940.
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