Leslie Nichols (1907-date of death unknown), was a

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

player from

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Badminton career

Nichols was born in Islington in 1907. He was a three times winner of the

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. He won the doubles with his younger brother

Ralph Nichols Ralph Cyril Fulford Nichols (12 August 1910 – 27 May 2001) was an English male international badminton player. Badminton career Nichols won 9 All England Open Badminton Championships titles between 1932 and 1939, 5 of them in men's singles, ...

, for three consecutive years from 1936 until 1938.

Family

Nichols and his brother lived at 1 Willow Bridge Road, Canonbury in 1911.

References

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