Early Life
Max Nicholson, as he was known to all, was born in Kilternan, Ireland to English parents. His family moved to England in 1910, settling in Staines. He became interested in natural history after a visit to the natural history museum and later took to birdwatching, beginning to maintain a list of birds seen from 1913.
He was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria and then Hertford College, Oxford from 1926, winning scholarships to both. At Oxford he read history, and visited Greenland and British Guiana as a founder member of the University's Exploration Club. At Oxford he organized bird counts and censuses on the University's farm at Sanford.
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