The park was established in 1969, having been set up by Clive Nicol, who wrote about his experiences in From the Roof of Africa (1971, ISBN 0 340 14755 5).
Peter Nicol | Nicol David | Helen Nicol | Nicol Williamson | Donald Nicol | Steve Nicol | James Dyce Nicol | Walter Nicol | Peter Nicol Russell | Jimmie Nicol | James Nicol Grieve | Daniel Nicol Dunlop | C. W. Nicol | Allan Nicol |
The Library also has a large collection of medieval Arabic coins from as early as AD 696, which were published by Stanley Lane-Poole, Bernhardt Moritz and recently by Norman D. Nicol, Jere L. Bacharach and Rifa'at al-Nabarawy (1982).