Background
Nuttall was born in Leicestershire, the son of Sir Keith Nuttall, 2nd Baronet (1901-1941), who ran the family engineering business, Edmund Nuttall, Sons & Co. Ltd, in the 1920s and 1930s. The business had been founded by Nuttall's great-grandfather James Nuttall in Manchester in 1865, and built into a nationwide business by Nuttall's grandfather, Sir Edmund Nuttall, 1st Baronet (1870–1923), who became a baronet in 1922.
Nuttall's father became a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Engineers in the Second World War. Wounded in the retreat to Dunkirk, Sir Keith died on 31 August 1941; his eight year old son, Nicholas, inherited the title, the family company, and the family seat at Lowesby Hall near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. His mother remarried, becoming Mrs Edward Kirkpatrick.
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