John Gambril (Francis) Nicholson (1866–1931) was an English school teacher, poet, and amateur photographer. He was one of the Uranians, a clandestine group of British men who wrote poetry idealizing the beauty and love of adolescent boys. As a school master at various boarding schools in England and Wales, Nicholson formed "passionate friendships" with some of his students, and dedicated much of his poetry to favoured students.
A widely reproduced photograph of Nicholson (right) with Alec Melling, a student to whom he dedicated his second poetry collection, A Chaplet of Southernwood (1896).
Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric.
Rolfe as a seminarian, c. 1889-90
Rolfe's grave on the island of San Michele, Venice
Tito Biondi at Lake Nemi (photograph by Rolfe, ca. 1890–92)