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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Nicola Karina Christina Horlick, (born Nicola Christina Karina Gayford, 28 December 1960, Nottingham) is a female British investment fund manager. Her mother, Suzanna Czyzewska, was a Polish Jewish refugee who had fled the Nazis, and became a qualified architect, after Nicola and her brother were born. Her father was a Liberal candidate in the 1970s for Wirral. She grew up on the Wirral next to the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake. She attended the independent Kingsmead School (a prep school) in Hoylake from the ages of six to thirteen. She was one of three girls amongst 300 boys. She has said about the boys there, they were always sending me drippy love letters. She then boarded at the independent Cheltenham Ladies' College in 1973. She stayed for two years then went to Birkenhead High School (a direct-grant grammar school) with Penny Hughes, who became head of Coca-Cola UK at the age of 33. She also spent some time at the Phillips Exeter Academy. She gained nine O levels, four A levels and an S level.