Nicola Horlick

Nicola Karina Christina Horlick (born Nicola Karina Christina Gayford; 28 December 1960) is a British investment fund manager.

Horlick was born into a Cheshire family and spend most of her youth in the Wirral.

Horlick's parents lived in Puddington Old Hall, a listed building which dates from Tudor times. Horlick's father, Michael Gayford, was a Liberal candidate in the 1970s for Wirral. One of her grandmothers was a Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis in Poland on a motorbike. Horlick's mother, Suzanna Czyzewska, was born in Warsaw in 1939. Czyzewska's parents fled to Russia when the Nazis invaded Poland, and when liberated, they fought with the British in the Middle East. After the war, they lived in Kenya, where Czyzewska was brought up. She moved to the UK when she was 19 and married Horlick's father when she was 21. After having two children, Nicola and then her brother Christopher, Czyzewska went to the Liverpool University School of Architecture and qualified as an architect.

Nicola Horlick attended the independent Kingsmead School in Hoylake, Wirral between the ages of six and twelve. She was one of four girls amongst 300 boys initially. She then boarded at the independent Cheltenham Ladies' College in 1973. She stayed for two years then went to Birkenhead High School GDST. She also spent some time at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, USA, on an English-Speaking Union exchange scholarship. She gained nine O levels, four A levels and an S level. She gained a place at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1979 to study law, and graduated in 1982.

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