Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 10)

MURRAY, John (son of James Murray, sea-captain). b. Stranraer, Wigtownshire about 1786; lecturer on the philosophy of physics and of chemistry; lectured at the Surrey institution, Blackfriars road, London many years from 1816; F.L.S. 1819; F.S.A. 1822; F.G.S. 1823; F.H.S. 1824; author of Elements of chemical science 1815, 2 ed. 1818; A manual of experiments illustrative of chemical science, 5 ed. 1839; A treatise on atmospherical electricity 1830; The truth of revelation 1831 anon, 2 ed. 1840; Observations on flame and safety lamps 1833, and 23 other books. d. Broadstone house, near Stranraer 28 June 1851. bur. in Inch churchyard. Mining Journal 12 July 1851 p. 336.

MURRAY, John. b. 1798; succeeded David Laing the original Gretna Green blacksmith as keeper of the Sark toll-bar just over the Scotch border in Dumfriesshire, where he performed on an average 400 marriages a year up to 1856; keeper of the Sark Bar hotel. d. May 1861. P. O. Hutchinson’s Chronicles of Gretna Green ii 91 (1844); G.M. xi 96 (1861).

MURRAY, John (son of Andrew Murray, an advocate). b. Aberdeen 1843; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.B. and C.M. 1865, M.D. 1867; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1865; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1870; studied in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna; hospital reporter to The British Medical journal 1867, sub-editor to his decease; assist. physician and lecturer on pathology Middlesex hospital, became dean 1868; visited the ambulances around Sedan 1870; assist. physician Children’s hospital Great Ormond st. 1871. d. after an operation for tracheotomy 42 Harley st. London 15 Oct. 1873. bur. Aberdeen. British medical journal 18 Oct. 1873 p. 476; The Lancet 18 Oct. 1873 p. 577.

MURRAY, John. b. Kelso 12 Dec. 1804; engineer to river Wear comrs. at Sunderland 1831; moved the Wear lighthouse in one solid piece to another site, a distance of more than 150 yards Aug. 1841, the lighthouse was 69 feet high and 15 feet in diameter at the base, constructed docks along the sea shore with an outlet into the river at one end and into Hendon bay at the other 1848–56; practised in London 1848–70; M.I.C.E. 12 March 1833, member of council 1859–71; author of An address on the sanitary improvement of the metropolis 1852; The tides and currents in the Polar seas, with reasons for persevering in the search for sir J. Franklin 1854. d. 2 Feb. 1882. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxi 400–407 (1883); W. H. D. Adams’s Lighthouses (1870) 182–6 view of the Wear lighthouse.

MURRAY, John (eld. son of John Murray, publisher 1778–1843). b. London 16 April 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and univ. of Edinb. 1827; helped his father in the business 1830–43; publisher at 50 Albemarle st. 1843 to death; published many books by Borrow, Croker, Lyell, Lockhart, Hallam, sir F. Head, lord Stanhope, lord Campbell, and Grote, and the series known as Murray’s Handbooks; published the Quarterly Review 1843 to death; started Murray’s Mag. Jany. 1887 which ceased Dec. 1891; F.S.A. 2 March 1876; edited Unpublished letters of Laurence Sterne, Philobiblon Soc., Miscellanies vol. ii (1855–6) Tract xi; author of Hand-book for travellers in France 1843; Murray’s Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine 1852; Scepticism in geology and the reason for it. By Verifier 1877, 2 ed. 1878. d. 50 Albemarle st. London 2 April 1892. bur. in Wimbledon parish church 6 April, net personal estate sworn at £71,390. S. Smiles’s A publisher and his friends vol. 2 (1891) passim; Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 159–98; The Critic xx 17 (1860) portrait; Graphic 9 April 1892) p. 464 portrait; Saturday Review lxii 834.

MURRAY, Sir John Archibald (2 son of Alexander Murray, lord Henderland, Scottish judge 1736–95). b. Midlothian 1779; ed. at Edinburgh high school, Westminster school, and univ. of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1799; on staff of Edinburgh review, joint editor with Sydney Smith and 3 others of Edinburgh review 1802, to which he contributed many years; founder of the Friday club 1805; M.P. Leith Dec. 1832 to April 1839; recorder of the great roll and clerk of the pipe; lord advocate 1834 and 20 April 1835 to 1839; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Murray April 1839 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 April 1839; author of Letter to the lord advocate, on the procedure in the court of session and jury trials, by a member of court, Edinburgh 1850. d. 11 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 7 March 1859. H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 71–7; Memoirs of Francis Horner, 2 vols. 1853, this work is dedicated to Lord Murray and contains many letters to him; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 107–9 portrait; Law magazine and law review vii 182–7 (1859).

MURRAY, John Fisher (eld. son of sir James Murray, physician 1788–1871). b. Belfast 11 Feb. 1811; studied medicine; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine sketches of London life, afterwards reprinted separately, and a series of papers in 1840 entitled Some account of himself, by the Irish oyster eater; wrote for the Belfast Vindicator and the Nation 1845; author of The Chinese and the ministry 1840; The Viceroy, a romance, 3 vols. 1841; The Environs of London, western division, Edinb. 1842; The world of London, 2 vols. Edinb. 1843, second series, 2 vols. London 1845. d. Dublin 20 Oct. 1865. bur. Glasnevin cemet. C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland (1880) 14 et seq.

Note.—He also wrote The court doctor dissected 1839, second ed. entitled Lady Flora Hastings 1839. This refers to the conduct of Sir James Clark, M.D. in the case of Lady Flora Hastings, lady in waiting to the Queen, who was accused of being in a pregnant condition, when the appearance was caused by disease. There was much discussion, both in the newspapers and by pamphlets, on this case.

MURRAY, John O’Kane. b. Glenariffe, co. Antrim 12 Dec. 1847; went to U.S. of America June 1856; graduated at St. John’s college, Fordham, New York; practised medicine in Brooklyn, New York; worked from 12 to 16 hours a day for years; author of A popular history of the Catholic church in the United States 1876; The prose and poetry of Ireland 1877; The catholic heroes and heroines of America 1878; Little lives of the great saints 1879; The catholic pioneers of America 1881; Lessons in English literature 1883. d. Chicago 30 July 1885.

MURRAY, Mary Frances (dau. of Julio Henry Hughes of Adelphi theatre, London actor, his widow Fanny Hughes d. 12 April 1880). b. near Frankfort, Germany; first appeared on the stage 1851 at Guildford theatre as Sophia in The rendezvous; first appeared in London 23 Nov. 1853 at Lyceum as Emma Thornton in The bachelor of arts; played Ariel in The tempest at Sadler’s Wells 2 Oct. 1855; Esther in P. Simpson’s Daddy Hardacre 26 March 1857, Elvira in Brough’s burlesque Masaniello 2 July 1857, Violet in Oxenford’s Doubtful victory 19 April 1858, Alice in Oxenford’s Porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Grace Emery in Craven’s Chimney corner 21 Feb. 1861, Amelia Howard in Horace Wigan’s Taming a truant 19 March 1863, Emily St. Evremond in Tom Taylor’s The ticket-of-leave man 27 May 1863, all at the Olympic; played Marion Vernon in Taylor and Dubourg’s A sister’s penance at Adelphi 26 Nov. 1866; Mrs. Singleton Bliss in Byron’s Cyril’s success at opening of Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868; acted in Cheltnam’s drama Edendale and Gilbert’s extravaganza The pretty druidess at opening of Charing Cross theatre 19 June 1869; Marguerite in Burnand’s Very little Faust at same house 17 Aug. 1869; played Mrs. Merton in Byron’s Not such a fool as he looks 23 Oct. 1869, Chloe in Albury’s Oriana 15 Feb. 1873, both at Globe theatre; played Mrs. Magennis in Byron’s An American lady at opening of Criterion theatre 21 March 1874; Miss Tarragon in H. Aidé’s Nine days wonder 12 June 1875, Romona in W. Stephen’s Ethel’s revenge 9 Sept. 1876, Mrs. Meredith in C. F. Coghlan’s Brothers 4 Nov. 1876, Mrs. Primrose in W. G. Will’s Olivia 30 March 1878, all at Court theatre; played Miss Meryon in G. W. Godfrey’s Coralie 28 May 1881, Mrs. Preston in C. Scott’s The Cape mail 27 Oct. 1881, Miss Kilmore in B. C. Stephenson’s Impulse 9 Dec. 1882, all at St. James’s, and Mrs. Stonehay in A. W. Pinero’s The Profligate at opening of Garrick theatre 24 April 1889; m. Gaston Murray, who d. 8 Aug. 1889. d. 1 Trent road, Brixton, London 15 Jany. 1891. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 269; Illust. S. and D. news iii 513, 539 (1875) portrait.

MURRAY, Montagu. b. Edinburgh; educ. Glasgow; arrived at Port Nicholson with the New Zealand expedition co. as tailor to the emigrants 1840, when Wellington was founded; attached to the survey staff; proprietor of the Ship inn, Wellington; played Scotch characters in a bijou theatre; after the Wairoa massacres he removed to New South Wales 1843; tailor and actor in Sydney; a master tailor Little Collins st. Melbourne; organized and managed the Garrick club; opened the Queen’s theatre 1851; toured through New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia; the original in the song, dialogue, and dance of The deil among the tailors; always known as Wee Murray; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Sydney, last time in 1869; settled in business with his son Donald Murray at Hay, N.S.W. 1869. d. Hay June 1880. The Era 1 Aug. 1880 p. 6.

MURRAY, Nicholas (son of Nicholas Murray, farmer). b. Ballynaskea, Westmeath 25 Dec. 1802; landed in New York July 1818; a printer 1818–21; became a Protestant 1821; graduated at Williams college 1826, and at Princetown theological seminary 1829; pastor of Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey 1833 to death; D.D. Williams college 1843; moderator of the general assembly 1850; under the signature of Kirwan he wrote Letters to the rt. hon. J. Hughes, Roman catholic bishop of New York 1848 two series, 1851 three series, and new ed. 1875; Kirwan’s Letter to Dr. Côte on baptism 1849; Romanism at home, being letters to the hon. Roger B. Taney 1852, 6 ed. 1852; Kirwan on Bedini and Dr. Duff, an address 1854, several replies were made to these works; author of Notes, historical and biographical, concerning Elizabeth Town 1844; Men and things as I saw them in Europe 1853; Parish and other pencillings 1855; Preachers and preaching 1860. d. Elizabethtown, New Jersey 4 Feb. 1861. S. I. Prime’s Memoir of N. Murray (1863) portrait.

MURRAY, Patrick Aloysius. b. Clones, co. Monaghan 18 Nov. 1811; ed. at Maynooth 1829–35; R.C. curate Francis st. Dublin 1835; professor of belles lettres Maynooth 7 Sept. 1838–41, and professor of theology 27 Aug. 1841 to death, nearly 2,000 priests were his pupils; prefect of Dunboyne house 1879 to death; contributed to Dublin Review many years; author of The Irish annual miscellany 1850; Essays, chiefly theological 1851; Sponsa mater et Christi 1858, a poem; Tractatus de ecclesia Christi, 3 vols. 1860–6, the most complete work on the subject; Prose and verse 1867; Tractatus de gratia 1877. d. Maynooth college 15 Nov. 1882. bur. Maynooth 18 Nov. Irish Monthly xix 337–46 (1891); Freeman’s Journal 17 Nov. 1882 p. 5.

MURRAY, Peter (son of Patrick Murray, M.D., assistant judge of supreme court of Jamaica). b. Montego bay, Jamaica 30 March 1782; ed. at Scarborough, Kensington and univ. of St. Andrews 1794; entered univ. of Edinb. 31 Oct. 1799, M.D. 24 June 1802; assistant physician at Finsbury dispensary, London 1803; practised at High Harrogate May 1804–12; at Knaresborough 1812 to Oct. 1826, and at Scarborough from 1826 to death. d. Belle Vue, near Scarborough 27 Feb. 1864. bur. Scarborough cemet. 5 March. The beloved physician by Rev. R. Balgarnie (1864).

MURRAY, Richard. b. 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1807, D.B. and D.D. 1830; dean of Ardagh 10 Feb. 1829 to death; author of Practical remarks on book of Genesis 1827; Outlines of the history of the catholic church in Ireland 1840; Ireland and her church 1845; The church of St. John in Ireland 1849. d. Exmouth, Devon 2 Aug. 1854.

MURRAY, Robert Fuller (eld. child of John Murray of Roxbury in Massachusets, unitarian minister, who d. 1886). b. Roxbury 26 Dec. 1863; taken to England 1869; lived at Kelso 1869–71, at York 1871, then at Canterbury; ed. at Ilminster and Crewkerne gr. schools; entered at univ. of St. Andrews 1881 with a scholarship won as an external student of Manchester New college; wrote verse in the University paper afterwards called College Echoes; assisted professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn of St. Andrews, in literary and academic work 1886–9, left St. Andrews May 1889; wrote leader-notes for the Scottish leader May 1889 to about 6 Aug. 1889; wrote pieces of verse in Longman’s Magazine, Punch, and St. James’s Gazette; his book The Scarlet Gown, verses by a St. Andrews man, was published by his friend A. M. Holden 1891. d. Laurel bank, Ilminster, Somerset 17 Jany. 1894. Robert F. Murray, his poems, with a memoir by Andrew Lang (1894); Longman’s Mag. April 1894 pp. 644–50.

MURRAY, Sir Terence Aubrey (son of Terence Murray, captain 48 foot, a settler at Lake George, N.S.W.) b. Limerick 1810; went to New South Wales with his father 1827; gazetted a magistrate 1833, when he helped to repress bush ranging; member for Murray, King, and Georgiana in legislature of N.S.W. 1843–56; member for Argyle in the legislative assembly 1856–62; member for the Southern Boroughs 1856; secretary for lands and works 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, and 7 September 1857 to 12 January 1858; speaker of the legislative assembly 31 Jany. 1860; member of legislative council 1862 to death; president 14 Oct. 1862 to death; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. d. Sydney 22 June 1873. Australian men of mark i 159–64 (1889) portrait.

MURRAY, Thomas. b. parish of Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire 1792; entered univ. of Edinb. 1810; a licensed minister in the established church and a preacher for some time; wrote for sir David Brewster’s Cyclopædia; helped to found the Edinburgh Galloway Association 1843, secretary 1843 to death; secretary of Edinburgh School of Art 1844 to death; established at 21 George st. Edinb. the printing business of Murray and Gibb 1841, the firm became her majesty’s printers for Scotland, he retired about 1860; member of Edinb. town council 1854–60; author of The literary history of Galloway 1822; The life of Samuel Rutherford 1828; The life of Robert Leighton 1828; The life of John Wycliffe 1829; Biographical annals of the parish of Colinton 1863. d. Elm Bank, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 15 April 1872. Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 77.

MURRAY, Thomas. b. Paisley 1801; founded firm of Thomas Murray and Son, booksellers and publishers 8 Argyll st. Glasgow, removed to 31 Buchanan st., retired some years before his death; member of Glasgow town council; with A. K. Murray published Murray’s Handbooks for Scotland, Glasgow 1852–6, eleven numbers; Murray’s Railway readings 1867 etc. d. 7 Royal crescent, Crosshill, Glasgow 13 Jany. 1884.

MURRAY, Thomas Boyles (son of Charles Murray, solicitor, d. 1847). b. 16 Dec. 1798; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch., Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1817, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; C. of Starcross, Devon; C. of St. Olave’s, Hart st. London; assistant secretary to soc. for promoting Christian knowledge 1835, joint secretary to 1860; P.C. of St. Dunstan in the East 28 Feb. 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. March 1843 to death; author of A notice of Ely chapel, Holborn 1840; An alphabet of emblems 1844; The children in St. Paul’s, the anniversary of the assembled charity schools 1851; Pitcairn, the island, the people, and the pastor 1853; Chronicles of a city church, St. Dunstan in the east 1859; A concordance to the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha 1859. d. 30 Brunswick sq. London 24 Sept. 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Gent. Mag. ix 556 (1860); I.L.N. xxvi 269 (1855) portrait.

MURRAY, Thomas Graham (3 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall, Perthshire 1782–1847). b. Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1816; educ. Edinb. academy and univ.; writer to the signet 22 Nov. 1838; senior partner in firm of Tods, Murray, and Jamieson, retired 1879; member of royal commission on the law of hypothec 1864, and on law courts of Scotland 1868; crown agent 1866–8; convener of endowment scheme of established church of Scotland 1887, under his supervision 100 churches were built; LL.D. of Edinb. univ. 1888; purchased Stenton estate, Perthshire 1860; member for Dunkeld of Perthshire county council; lieut. then capt. to writer to the Signet’s volunteer corps. d. 11 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 10 March 1891. bur. Dean cemetery 14 March, portrait by George Reid, R.S.A., exhibited at R.S.A. 1891. The Scotsman 11 March 1891 p. 7.

MURRAY, William. b. Portsea, Hants. 1796; admitted solicitor 1817; partner with Wm. Osbaldeston in city of London 1817–34, practised alone 1834–57; partner with his son C. F. Murray and F. L. Hutchens 1857–67, retired from practise 1867; member of council of Incorporated law society 26 June 1855, retired 1867; M.P. Newcastle under Lyme 1859–65. d. 7 Warrior terrace, St. Leonard’s 27 Oct. 1870. Solicitor’s Journal 5 Nov. 1870 p. 14.

MURRAY, William (son of Mrs. Murray who lived at 33 Harley st. London in 1861). Ensign 97 foot 9 March 1838, lieut. 29 May 1840; captain 10 hussars 3 Sept. 1847; captain 12 lancers 1 May 1857, sold out 4 Dec. 1857; served in Crimean war 1855; major in the army 26 Dec. 1856; resided at Elm lodge, Talbot road, Tottenham 1861; had a desperate fight with W. J. Roberts a money lender at Roberts’ chambers 16 Northumberland st. Strand 12 July 1861, Roberts died in Charing Cross hospital 19 July, the coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide 25 July; Roberts was in love with Murray’s mistress Anna Maria Moody and tried to kill Murray by shooting him. A.R. (1861) 119–26; J. Irving’s Annals of our time 2 ed. (1876) 606–7; Illust. Times 20 July 1861 p. 46, 27 July pp. 56–9 and 3 Aug. pp. 72–4, portrait of Miss A. M. Moody and view of 16 Northumberland st.

MURRAY, William David (only son of 4 Earl of Mansfield, b. 1806). b. Scone palace, Perthshire 12 July 1835; styled viscount Stormont 1840 to death; ensign grenadier guards 21 July 1854, sold out 27 Sept. 1856; served in Crimean war 1855; lieut. col. commandant of Perthshire militia 22 Dec. 1871 to death; commanded Tay brigade of volunteer infantry 4 Aug. 1888 to death; militia A.D.C. to the Queen 10 May 1892 to death; vice lieut. of Perthshire 1879 to death; a comr. of supply about 1880; member of the road board and of Perth district committee March 1881, chairman of the committee to 1892; chairman of the county road trustees. d. Scone palace, 12 Oct. 1893.

MURRAY, William Henderson. Apprentice to a shoemaker at Cupar-Fife; designer, engraver and afterwards reporter on the Fife Herald at Cupar; reporter to Falkirk Herald; connected with Edinburgh guardian; editor and manager of Daily Express, Edinb. 1856, then joint proprietor with Joseph Ebenezer Cupples, latterly sole proprietor, his name appears on the paper as printer until No. 1014, Sept. 23, 1858. d. at house of his father-in-law, Charles Duncan, painter Cupar 25 July 1858. The Fife Herald 29 July 1858, p. 2.

MURRAY, William Henry Wood (son of Charles Murray, actor and dramatist 1754–1821). b. Bath 26 Aug. 1790; played small parts at Covent Garden 1803–4; first appeared at T.R. Edinburgh as Count Cassel in Lover’s vows 20 Nov. 1809; manager of theatre royal in Shakspere sq. Edinburgh April 1815 to death; played Captain Thornton in Rob Roy Macgregor, produced 15 Feb. 1819, which ran 41 nights; played Wamba in his drama Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; made a great hit as Paul Pry Nov. 1825; produced his farce No, 10 Feb. 1827, and his drama Gilderoy 25 June 1827; lessee of T.R. Edinburgh 1830 to death, opened 17 Nov. 1830; lessee with F. H. Yates of Adelphi theatre, Edinb. 1830–1, sole lessee 1831 to death; last appeared in Edinb. at Adelphi as Sir Anthony Absolute 22 Oct. 1851; author of Mary, queen of Scots 4 July 1825; Gilderoy, a drama 25 June 1827; Dominique the deserter, a comic drama 16 Nov. 1831; Philippe or the secret marriage 15 July 1834; Cramond Brig or the Gudeman o’ Ballangeich 17 Jany. 1834; Diamond cut diamond, Adelphi theatre Aug. 1838; Romeo and Juliet, a burlesque; Oliver Twist, a drama 23 March 1840. d. St. Andrews 5 May 1852. bur. in the cathedral burying ground, portrait by sir Wm. Allan in Scottish national portrait gallery. B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 170–2 portrait; The Town ii 766, 778 (1839); J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh stage (1888) 260, 349, 422, 509 portrait; The Farewell addresses of W. H. Murray, with a biographical sketch (1851).

MURRAY, William Powell (7 son of Charles Murray of Petworth, Sussex). b. London 23 March 1817; educ. Westminster 1829, King’s scholar 1831, elected as head boy to Trin. coll. Camb. 1835, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1841; practised in the chancery courts; registrar of bankruptcy court, Manchester 26 March 1863, registrar in London 1863 to death. d. Newgrove, Upper Norwood 20 Aug. 1885. bur. Shirley churchyard, Surrey. Law Times 19 Sept. 1885 p. 347.

MURRAY-DUNLOP, Alexander Colquhoun Stirling (eld. son of Alexander Dunlop of Keppoch Dumbartonshire banker). b. Greenock 27 Dec. 1798; ed. at Greenock gr. sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1820; assessor to town of Greenock; fought a duel with James Colquhoun, eldest son of Sir James Colquhoun, 3 baronet, about 1825; framer of the “Claim of rights” for the Free church of Scotland and of the “Protest” made on occasion of the disruption 1843; legal adviser to Free church 1843 to death: contested Greenock March 1845 and July 1847; M.P. Greenock 1852–68; hon. LL.D. Princetown univ. U.S. of America; assumed additional surname of Murray on death of John Murray of Edinb. 1849, and names of Colquhoun Stirling on death of W. C. Stirling 1866; author of A treatise on the poor law. d. Corsach, Kirkcudbrightshire 1 Sept. 1870. Law Times 10 Sept. 1870 p. 357.

MURRIETA, Cristobal de. b. Spain 1789; a merchant at 5 Bloomfield st. Moorfields, City of London 1825; took his sons Mariano and Jose into partnership 1850, the business was principally with Spain and South America and was carried on at 7 Adam court, Old Broad st. from 1847, it was converted into a limited liability company 21 March 1891, which failed 30 July 1892; knight grand cross of Spanish order of Charles III. d. 11 Kensington palace gardens, London 17 Nov. 1868, personalty sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1869.

MURSELL, James (son of the succeeding). b. Leicester 22 July 1829; in office of sir Morton Peto, Westminster 1846; educ. Bristol coll. 1850; Baptist minister at Kettering 1852–70; at Hallfield chapel, Bradford 1870–2; at Berwick st. chapel, Newcastle 1872 to death; attended the opening of Mr. Wall’s Baptist chapel in Rome 1875; author of Our relations with India 1857; The principal historical associations of Northamptonshire 1861. d. Newcastle 28 May 1875. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful men (1884) 330–2; The Baptist handbook 1876 pp. 378–80.

MURSELL, James Philippo (son of William Mursell, ironmonger). b. High st. Lymington, Hants 7 Sept. 1799; educ. Newbury and at Bristol academy; Baptist minister at Wells, at Birmingham, at Leicester 1826, resigned 1875 when he was presented with £1,600; first chairman of Baptist union at Birmingham 1864; a founder of the voluntary church society at Leicester 1836 and of the Nonconformist newspaper 1841; took the name of Philippo, after his friend James Philippo, a missionary in Jamaica; author of Letters on education 1831; Reasons for not observing fasts, 2 ed. 1847; Robert Hall, his genius and writings 1854; A zealous ministry, its character and its worth 1857. d. Leicester 2 Nov. 1885. A. Mursell’s J. P. Mursell (1886) portrait; The Baptist handbook 1886 pp. 131–3.

MURTON, Frederic (son of Mr. Murton, commandant of marines, Chatham). b. Chatham 24 March 1817; articled to colonel George Landmann 1834, employed by him on Preston and Wyre railway 1837; resident engineer upon the Paris, Rouen, Havre, and Dieppe railway; engaged by Thomas Brassey on Paris, Lyons, Avignon and Marseilles railway, presented by his employer with £5,000; in practice in Paris; carried out a railway from Gladbach to Venlo; examined railway projects in Portugal and North America; M.I.C.E. 1 March 1864. d. 85 Addison road, Kensington, London 17 Jany. 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 326–8 (1889).

MUSGRAVE, Anthony. b. Antigua Nov. 1793; ed. at Edmonton and Edinb., M.D. June 1814; annual president of Edinb. medical society; partner with H. M. Daniell at Antigua 1815; partner with Robert Crichton 1824 to Crichton’s death 1827; member of house of assembly 1817; treasurer of Antigua 1824 to death; partner with Thomas Nicholson 1827 to death; wrote in the Medico Chirurgical transactions of London, a history of the yellow fever which broke out in Antigua June 1816; wrote articles in the medical papers. d. Antigua 24 Feb. 1852.

MUSGRAVE, Sir Anthony (son of the preceding). b. 1828; private secretary to R. J. Mackintosh, governor of Leeward Islands 1850–1; student at Inner Temple 1851; treasury accountant at Antigua 1852, colonial secretary 1854–60; administrator at Nevis Oct. 1860, and at St. Vincent April 1861; lieut. governor St. Vincent May 1862; governor of Newfoundland April 1864, and of British Columbia 8 Nov. 1869; lieutenant governor of Natal 25 May 1872; governor of South Australia 6 March 1873; governor and captain-general in Jamaica 8 June 1877; governor and commander-in-chief in Queensland 21 July 1883 to death; C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, G.C.M.G. 6 June 1885; author of Studies in political economy 1875. d. Government house, Brisbane 9 Oct. 1888.

MUSGRAVE, Charles (son of W. Peete Musgrave of Cambridge, woollen draper). b. 1792 or 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., tenth wrangler 1814; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1837; fellow of his college; V. of Whitkirk, Leeds 1821–36; select preacher at Camb. 1821–2; V. of Halifax, Yorkshire 30 March 1827 to death; prebendary of York cath. 16 Feb. 1833 to death; archdeacon of Craven 30 Dec. 1836 to death; author of Charges and sermons 1824–54. d. Halifax Vicarage 17 April 1875. The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) portrait 43; Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 111, 519.

MUSGRAVE, Frank. b. 1834; conductor at Strand theatre, London 1861 to about 1876, where he arranged music for H. J. Byron’s burlesque Esmeralda 28 Sept. 1861; composed the music for Burnand’s Windsor Castle, produced 5 June 1865, the first opera-burlesque in this country, also for his burlesque L’Africaine, produced 18 Nov. 1865; composer of The pantomime polka 1861; Le chevalier et sa belle, a song 1866; The excursion train galop 1862; A selection from The Messiah and The Creation arranged for the violin 1862; The smile and the tear, a ballad 1866; Boosey’s Burlesque series, music arranged by F. Musgrave 1861; Boosey’s Christy minstrel’s melodies arranged by F. Musgrave 1862; Boosey’s 24 popular dances arranged as duets 1862; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces of music 1861–84. d. Cambridge house, Bethnal green, London 11 May 1888. bur. Highgate cemetery 17 May.

MUSGRAVE, George Musgrave (eld. son of George Musgrave of Shillington manor, Beds. 1769–1861). b. St. Marylebone, London 1 July 1798; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of All Souls, Marylebone 1824–6; C. of Marylebone 1826–9; R. of Bexwell, Norfolk 1835–8; V. of Borden, Kent 1838–54; travelled in France and Italy; founded 2 theological prizes at Clergy orphan school, St. Thomas’s Mount, Canterbury, and three at Clergy orphan school, St. John’s Wood, London; author of Translations from Tasso and Petrarch 1822; The book of the Psalms in English blank verse 1833; The crow keeper or thoughts in the fields 1847; The parson, pen, and pencil, 3 vols. 1848; A pilgrimage into Dauphiné, 2 vols. 1857; Continental excursions, cautions for the first tour By Viator Verax, M.A. 1863, 5 ed. 1866; Ten days in a French parsonage, 2 vols. 1864; Nooks and corners in Old France, 2 vols. 1867; The Odyssey of Homer, rendered into English blank verse, 2 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1869; A ramble into Brittany, 2 vols. 1870. d. 13 Grosvenor place, Bath 26 Dec. 1883.

MUSGRAVE, Sir Richard, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Christopher Frederick Musgrave, 2 Bart. 1758–1826). b. 6 Jany. 1790; succeeded Sept. 1826; M.P. co. Waterford 1835–7. d. Whiting bay, co. Waterford 7 July 1859.

MUSGRAVE, Sir Richard Courtenay 11 Baronet (2 son of sir G. Musgrave, 10 baronet 1799–1872). b. Eden hall, Penrith, Cumberland 21 Aug. 1838; ensign 71 foot 17 Nov. 1857, sold out 21 Oct. 1859; succeeded 29 Dec. 1872; lord lieut. of Westmoreland 27 Sept 1876 to death; contested East Cumberland 16 Feb. 1874, and 28 April 1876; M.P. East Cumberland April 1880 to death; colonel of royal Westmoreland militia 1 Feb. 1879 to death. d. 17 Cavendish sq. London 13 Feb. 1881.

MUSGRAVE, Thomas (son of W. Peete Musgrave, tailor and woollen draper). b. Slaughter house lane, Cambridge 30 March 1788; ed. at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire; pensioner Trin. coll. Camb. 1804, scholar 1807, junior fellow 1812, senior fellow 1832–7, senior bursar 1825–37; 14 wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, D.D. 1837; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic 1821–37; senior proctor 1831; V. of Over, Cambridge 1823; R. of St. Mary the Great 1825–33; V. of Bottisham 1837; dean of Bristol 27 March 1837; bishop of Hereford 5 Aug. 1837, consecrated at Lambeth 1 Oct 1837, revived the office of rural dean; archbishop of York 15 Nov. 1847 to death, enthroned in York minster 15 Jany. 1848; author of Charges and Sermons 1831–54. d. 41 Belgrave sq. London 4 May 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet., portrait in dining room at Bishopthorpe.

MUSGRAVE, Thomas Moore. b. 1775; private sec. to lord Pelham, sec. of state for home department 1802; of Alien department in sec. of state’s office 1803–6, and again in 1816; sec. to the secretary to the government of Ireland 1806, when he retired on a pension; mail agent at Lisbon July 1816; agent for the mail packets at Falmouth; comptroller of the twopenny post office, London to 1833; postmaster at Bath 1833 to death; a writer in the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, and in Ackerman’s Forget-me-not; author of A candid appeal to public confidence 1803; Considerations on the re-establishment of an effective balance of power, 2 ed. 1813; Ignez de Castro, a tragedy from the Portuguese of A. Ferriera 1825; The Lusiad by L. de Camoens, a translation 1826. d. Bath 4 Sept. 1854. Bath Chronicle 14 Sept. 1854 p. 3.

MUSGRAVE, William. Barrister I.T. 23 June 1814; puisne judge supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 7 July 1843 to death. d. Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope 6 Oct. 1854.

MUSGRAVE, William Peete. b. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; C. of Trumpington, Cambs. 1837–40; V. of Eaton-Bishop, Herefordshire 1841–54; resident canon and preb. of Hereford cath. 1 Feb. 1844 to death; R. of Etton, Yorkshire, and rural dean of Beverley 1854–78; warden of St. Katherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1877 to death; precentor of Hereford cath. 1878 to death; author of What preach we?; The Christian soldier, and various single sermons. d. Residence house, Hereford 11 April 1892. F. T. Havergal’s Fasti Herefordenses (1869) p. 66.

MUSGROVE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (only son of John Musgrove of London, merchant 1763–1820). b. 21 Jany. 1793; auctioneer and house agent at 5 Austin Friars, London 1824; alderman of Broad st. Ward, London 1842, resigned 17 Sept. 1872; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1843–4; lord mayor of London 1850–1; knighted on occasion of queen opening royal exchange 28 Oct. 1844; baronet 2 Aug. 1851, after queen’s visit to the city. d. Rusthall house, Speldhurst, Kent 5 Oct. 1881. I.L.N. xvii 357 (1850) portrait.

MUSHET, Robert (2 son of Richard Mushet). b. Dalkeith 1811; second clerk and probationer melter in the royal mint, London 1832, senior clerk and melter 1851 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author of The Trinities of the ancients 1837; The book of symbols 1844, 2 ed. 1847; The coin book, Philadelphia 1873. d. Haywards Heath, Sussex 4 Sept. 1871.

MUSHET, Robert Forester (youngest son of David Mushet metallurgist 1772–1847). b. Coleford, Forest of Dean 8 April 1811; assisted his father in his researches at Coleford; experimented with the alloy of iron and manganese known as Spiegeleisen from 1848; took out three patents for improving the quality of iron 16 Sept. 1856; claimed to have perfected the Bessemer process of refining iron by blowing air through it when in a molten condition; the Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel institute was awarded to him 1876; took out about 20 patents for manufacture of alloys of iron and steel with titanium tungsten and chromium 1859–61; invented ‘special steel’ about 1870; author of The Bessemer-Mushet process 1883. d. 10 Sydenham villas, Cheltenham 19 Jany. 1891. Jeans’s Creators of the age of steel (1884) 60–5; Journal of iron and steel institute (1876) 1–4; Engineering Review 20 July 1893 p. 7 portrait.

MUSPRATT, James (son of Evan Muspratt, an Englishman, d. 1810). b. Dublin 12 Aug. 1793; apprenticed to a wholesale chemist in Dublin 1807; midshipman on board the Impétueux 1812, but deserted about 1814; a manufacturer of prussiate of potash in Dublin 1818; set up alkali works at Liverpool 1823; joined J. C. Gamble and built new works at St. Helens 1828, left Gamble and set up another manufactory at Newton 1830; opened new works in Widnes and Flint; retired from business 1857; was the chief founder of the alkali manufacture in the United Kingdom. d. Seaforth hall, near Liverpool 4 May 1886. bur. in Walton parish churchyard. J. F. Allen’s Memoir of James Muspratt, with portrait.

MUSPRATT, James Sheridan (1 son of the preceding). b. Dublin 8 March 1821; studied chemistry at Andersonian univ. Glasgow 1836, and at Univ. coll. London 1838; lost some thousands in a trading partnership in America 1842; worked in the laboratory of Liebig at Giessen 1843–5; Ph.Doc. Giessen 1845, a title never before granted to so young a man; F.C.S. 1843; founded the Liverpool college of chemistry 1848; succeeded to a share in his father’s business 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1844; F.R.S. Dublin; translated Plattner’s Treatise on the blowpipe 1845, 3 ed. 1854; discovered a proto-chloride of iron spring at Harrogate 1868, since known as Dr. Muspratt’s chalybeate; author of Outlines of qualitative analysis 1849; Chemistry, theoretical, practical, and analytical, 2 vols. 1853–61; m. 22 March 1843 Susan Cushman, American actress, d. 10 May 1859. He d. The Hollies, West Derby, Liverpool 3 Feb. 1871. Biography of Sheridan Muspratt, by a London barrister-at-law (1852) portrait; J. S. Muspratt’s Chemistry, 2 vols. (1853–61) 2 portraits; W. White’s Biography of S. Muspratt (1869) portrait.

MUSSY, Henri Guéneau de. b. Paris 1814; physician, came to England with Louis Philippe in 1848; physician to the Orleans family throughout his life; F.R.C.P. of England 25 Nov. 1859; resided at Claremont 1848–72; made investigations in Ireland about the famine fever of 1847; entertained at a banquet by the president and college of physicians of England; representative of the French académie de médecine at tercentenary of univ. of Edinb. 16–18 April 1884, when he was created LL.D.; wrote De l’apoplexie pulmonaire in Ecole de Medicine, collection des thèses 1844, vol. viii. d. St. Raphael in the Riviera Sept. 1892. bur. Pére Lachaise cemet. Paris 3 Oct. The Times 4 Oct. 1892 pp. 3, 7.

Note.—He was one of the few foreigners elected to the full fellowship of the royal college of physicians, his coat-of-arms is represented in one of the stained glass windows of the college in Trafalgar square.

MUSTERS, George Chaworth (son of John George Musters of Wiverton hall, Notts., d. 1842). b. Naples 13 Feb. 1841; entered the navy 1854; served in the Algiers, 74 guns, in the Black Sea, received English and Turkish Crimean medals 1856; lieut. of the Stromboli on coast of South America Dec. 1861 to June 1866; retired commander 10 June 1871; started sheep-farming at Montevideo 1866; lived with the Patagonian aboriginies, who treated him as a king 1869–70; received a gold watch from Royal Geog. soc. 1872; travelled with his wife in Bolivia and adjacent countries Feb. 1874 to Sept. 1876; appointed consul for the Mozambique 23 Sept. 1878; author of At home with the Patagonians, a year’s wanderings on untrodden ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro 1871, 2 ed. 1873. d. London 25 Jany. 1879. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. i 397–8 (1879).

MUSTOXIDI, Sir Andrea. b. Corfu 1785; created doctor at Padua 1807; historiographer to the French government under ministry of duke de Feltre in the Ionian Islands 1807; member of legislative assembly of Ionian Islands 1817, then president; president of municipality of Corfu; minister of public instruction in the Ionian Islands, and chancellor of the univ. of Corfu 1823; historiographer of the Ionian Islands 1811, sir Thomas Maitland deprived him of the title 1820; K.C.M.G. 1857; author of many editions of the classical authors and of works on Greece, published at Corfu, Malta, Milan, Padua, and Venice 1811–48. d. Corfu 17 July 1860. G.M. Nov. 1860 p. 554; Didot’s Nouvelle Biog. Générale xxxvi 73 (1863); Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire xi 732 (1874).

MUSURUS, Constantine (son of Paul Musurus). b. Constantinople 18 Feb. 1807; a Greek christian; sec. to Stefanaki Beg Vogorides, afterwards prince of Samos 1832, whose daughter Anne he married in 1839, she was b. 1819 and d. in London 19 July 1867; Turkish minister at Athens 1840, and at Vienna 1848; minister in London April 1851, raised to the rank of ambassador 30 Jany. 1856 with the title of Pasha, on the Sultan’s visit to London July 1867; retired 7 Dec. 1885; resided 1 Bryanston sq. London. d. Constantinople 12 Feb. 1891. The Graphic 21 Feb. 1891 p. 209 portrait; I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1891 p. 235 portrait; Pictorial World 21 Feb. 1891 p. 241 portrait.

MUTRIE, Annie Feray (sister of the succeeding). b. Ardwick, Manchester 6 March 1826; exhibited 46 flower pictures at R.A. and 6 at B.I. 1851–80, her pictures praised by John Ruskin in his Notes on the Royal academy 1855; removed to London 1854; sent pictures to Manchester exhibition of 1857, and to the International exhibition of 1862. d. 26 Lower Rock gardens, Brighton 28 Sept. 1893. bur. Brompton cemet. The Times 10 Oct. 1893 p. 9.

MUTRIE, Martha Darley (elder dau. of Robert Mutrie, who settled at Manchester in the cotton trade). b. Ardwick, Manchester 26 Aug. 1824; exhibited flower pictures at Royal Manchester Institution during some years; resided in London 1854 to death; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 1 at B.I. 1853–78; a Group of Camellias by her is in the South Kensington museum. d. 36 Palace gardens’ terrace, Kensington 30 Dec. 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. Athenæum 9 Jany. 1886 p. 75.

MUTTLEBURY, George. b. 1775; ensign 55 foot Jany. 1795, captain 21 Feb. 1798; captain 69 foot 5 Dec. 1802, lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1816; lieut. col. 69 foot again 3 July 1817, retired 3 Oct. 1826; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1854.

MYBURGH, Philip Albert (5 son of François Gerard Myburgh of Cape of Good Hope civil service, d. 21 Jany. 1868). b. 24 Feb. 1841; educ. South African college; matric. univ. of London 1858, B.A. 1860; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862, bencher Jany. 1886 to death; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882; her majesty’s standing counsel in supreme court, China and Japan; practised in the admiralty court, London. d. 31 Queen’s gate gardens, London 4 July 1892.

MYCROFT, William. b. Brimington, near Chesterfield 1 Feb. 1841; a miner at Brimington; professional cricketer; engaged at Birkenhead 1871, at Derby by the South Derbyshire club 1872–3; first played at Lord’s in All England v. the United South 22–3 May 1876, when he put out 9 of the latter and hit W. G. Grace for three 4’s in one over; a fast left hand bowler; in the Players v. Gentlemen at Lord’s and at Prince’s 1877; engaged by lord Sheffield to help Alfred Shaw in training Sussex players; on ground staff at Lord’s 1876–93. d. Derby 19 June 1894. Marylebone Club cricket scores xiii 823 (1880).

MYERS, Arthur Thomas (eld. son of rev. Frederick Myers of Keswick, Cumberland). b. 1841; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, M.D. 1881; L.S.A. 1879; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1882; house physician St. George’s hospital 1879–80, medical registrar 1880–4; physician Belgrave hospital for children 1887 to death; contributed to Clinical society transactions. d. from effects of a dose of some narcotic at 2 Manchester sq. London 10 Jany. 1894.

MYERS, Frederick (son of Thomas Myers 1774–1834, professor of mathematics at royal military academy, Woolwich.) b. Blackheath 20 Sept. 1811; scholar of Clare hall, Camb. 1829, Crosse scholar 1833, fellow 1833; B.A. 1833; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1836; C. of Ancaster, Lincs. 1835; P.C. of St. John’s, Keswick 1838 to death; author of Catholic Thoughts, privately printed, in 4 books 1834–48, published 1873 in the series of Present-day papers, edited by Bishop Ewing, issued again in 1883; Four sermons preached before the university of Cambridge, Keswick 1846; Six lectures on great men 1848. d. Clifton 20 July 1851. bur. Keswick churchyard 26 July. The life of Wm. Whewell, By Mrs. Stair Douglas (1881) passim.

MYERS, James Washington. b. Providence, Rhode island, U.S. of America 1823; an equestrian apprentice to Aaron Turner and Sons 1832; the first person who did a double somersault over horses; proprietor of a circus and menagerie 1844, travelled in United States 7 years, sold his establishment to James Nixon and P. T. Barnum 1851; came to England and performed before the queen at Windsor Castle 1851; travelled with Howes and Cushing’s circus 17 months; circus proprietor performing in the English provinces and on the Continent; had a very large establishment in Paris; his circus was at Crystal palace, Sydenham, summer of 1876; opened at the Agricultural hall, Islington 12 Jany. 1879; sold his circus, horses, lions, and elephants for about £5,000 at North Woolwich gardens 18 Oct. 1882; travelled with Hengler’s circus to death. d. Bristol 1 Dec. 1892. Era 21 Oct. 1882 p. 7, cols. 3–4; Graphic xxvi 501 (1882); Illust. Sp. and Dr. news xviii 145 (1882).

MYERS, William. Apprenticed to a land surveyor; acted under Mr. Thornhill at Bilston, then at Birmingham; played under Charles Kean’s management; acted Buckingham in Richard iii, and Appius Claudius in Virginius; played Quasimodo in Notre Dame in Jersey and was complimented by Victor Hugo; acted with W. C. Macready; last appeared as the Baillie in Rob Roy at Jersey; was the successor to T. P. Cooke in the character of William in Black-eyed Susan; correspondent of The Era in Guernsey. d. Guernsey 31 Dec. 1891, left a daughter Katherine Myers, professionally known as Kate Maynard.

MYERS, William. b. Norwich 5 March 1836; at Shrewsbury walked 300 miles in 6 days 1853; jumped 500 hurdles, 10 yards apart, in 30 minutes at Huntingdon 30 Dec. 1856; won a gold cup over 500 hurdles at Aldershot 1858; won a silver cup in a distance of 34 miles at Brompton; walked Bailey of Oxford st. London for £10 a side at Brompton; won a 3 mile handicap at Holloway grounds; beat W. Priestly for the championship £25 a side on Good Friday 1861; beat T. Beeston 7 miles £25 a side at Chalk farm, Primrose hill, London. Illust. sporting news (1862) 45 portrait.

MYLES, James. b. parish of Liff, Scotland 1819; worked as a mason several years; a public speaker on the people’s rights; bookseller in the Overgate, Dundee to death; published A Feast of literary crumbs, By Foo Foozle and friends; author of Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy, reprinted from Northern Warder newspaper; Rambles in Forfarshire, or sketches in town and country 1850, mostly reprinted from Dundee Courier; issued prospectus of a periodical entitled Myles’s Forfarshire telegraph and monthly advertiser, shortly before his death. d. Dundee 26 Feb. 1851. W. Norries’ Dundee Celebrities (1873) 132–3.

MYLES, Percy Watkins (son of rev. T. P. Myles, rector of Kilmore, co. Cork). b. Kilmore Feb. 1849; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1872; C. of St. John, Wednesbury, Staffs. 1871–4; Senior C. of Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea 1874–8; C. of Hillingdon, Middlesex 1878–82; C. of St. George, Old Brentford 1882–4; C. of St. Stephen, Ealing 1884 to death; agent of Additional curates aid soc.; F.L.S.; his lecture before Rudy institute, Paris on Contemporary English literature Jany. 1890, printed as a pamphlet March 1890; a writer in The Academy; edited for the Selbourne Society, its monthly magazine Nature notes 1890 to death. d. 1 Argyll road, Castle Hill, Ealing 7 Oct. 1891. Academy 10 Oct. 1891 p. 335.

MYLNE, Robert William (son of the succeeding). b. 14 June 1817; assisted his father for about 20 years; engineer to Limerick water company some years; obtained a supply of water from a sunk fort in the sea off Portsmouth; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1861 to death; F.R.I.B.A. 1849–89; F.G.S. 1848, member of council 1854–68; F.S.A. 8 Feb. 1849; author of On the supply of water from Artesian wells in the London basin 1840; Account of the ancient basilica of San Clemente at Rome 1845; Sections of the London strata with a block plan of the metropolis 1850; Topographical map of London and its environs 1851 and 1855; Map of the geology and contours of London and its environs 1856; Map of London shewing the districts supplied by the waterworks 1856. d. Home lodge, Great Amwell, Herts. 2 July 1890. Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xx–xxi (1891); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 317 (1890).

MYLNE, William Chadwell (2 son of Robert Mylne, architect and engineer 1734–1811). b. London 6 April 1781; assistant engineer to the New River company 1804, engineer 1811–61; designed and executed water works for Lichfield 1821, and for Stamford 1836; laid out 50 acres of land for building purposes near Islington, and designed St. Mark’s ch. Myddelton sq. 1826–8; constructed many settling reservoirs at Stoke Newington 1828; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1811–61; F.R.A.S. 1821; F.R.S. 16 March 1826; F.R.I.B.A. 1834; M.I.C.E. 1842, member of council 1844–8; treasurer to Smeatonian society of engineers 41 years. d. Amwell, Herts. 25 Dec. 1863. R. S. Mylne’s Master masons to the crown of Scotland (1893) 284–98 portrait; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx 448–51 (1870).

MYNN, Alfred (4 son of Wm. Mynn, farmer). b. Twisdon lodge, Goudhurst, Kent 19 Jany. 1807; a hop merchant with his brother at 12 Counter st. Borough, London 1833; played with lord Sondes’ club at Leeds court from 1825; first appeared at Lord’s in Gentlemen v. Players 27 Aug. 1832; served with the Gentlemen 20 times; played for county of Kent regularly till 1854; in 1836 he scored 283 runs in 4 consecutive innings, besides being twice not out; on an average he made about 30 runs in an hour; member of All England eleven 1846–54; a second Kent and England match was played in his honor at Lord’s 1847, when he got most runs, most wickets, and also hit the winning ball; the champion single wicket player of England, and beat, twice each, Thomas Hills in 1832, James Dearman in 1838, and N. Felix in 1846, all of whom had challenged him; a fast and ripping round armed bowler; resided at Harrietsham from 1825, removed to Thurnham and then to London. d. Merrick sq. Borough, London 1 Nov. 1861. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 3–11 and 74–6; Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii 200–1 (1862); R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 28–32, 203, 3 portraits; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 29 portrait; Illust. sporting news (1862) 137 portrait.

MYNN, Walter Parker (brother of preceding). b. 24 Nov. 1805; member of the Kent eleven, a steady bat, generally going in first; played at Lord’s first time in Sixteen gentlemen v. Eleven players 8 July 1833; long stop to his younger brother, A. Mynn’s tremendous bowling, and was much hurt about his hands in consequence; height upwards of six feet. d. 19 South Grove, Peckham, London 17 Oct. 1878. bur. Forest Hill. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 221 (1862).

MYTTON, Richard Herbert (only son of rev. Richard Mytton of Garth, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, d. 21 Feb. 1828). b. 2 Dec. 1808; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; judge of the Sudder, or high court of appeal at Calcutta, retired 1853; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1856; chairman of quarter sessions. d. Garth 12 May 1869.

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NADEN, Constance Caroline Woodhill (only child of Thomas Naden, architect). b. 15 Francis road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 24 Jany. 1858; lived with Mrs. Woodhill at Edgbaston till 1 June 1887, from whom she inherited a handsome fortune; a disciple of Robert Lewins, M.D. from 1876, the doctrine he taught is called hylo-idealism, and is monistic positivism; studied physics, chemistry, botany, flower painting, German, French, Latin, and Greek under private tutors, and at the Midland institute, and at Mason’s coll. Birmingham 1879–1887; lectured at Mason’s coll. 1889; edited the Mason college magazine; a member of the Aristotelian society; travelled in the East 1887–8; purchased 114 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London Nov. 1888; endeavoured to form a Spencer society 1819; wrote scientific papers with the signatures of C. N., Constance Arden, and C. A.; author of Songs and sonnets of spring time 1881; A modern apostle, the elixir of life, and other poems 1887; Further reliques of C. Naden, ed. by George M. McCrie 1891; Selections from the works of C. C. W. Naden 1893. d. from an internal complaint 114 Park st. London 23 Dec. 1889. bur. in Old cemet. Warstone lane, Birmingham; Dr. Lewin founded a Naden gold medal at Mason college, and gave her bust in marble to the library 1890. Induction and deduction by C. C. W. Naden (1890) memoir pp. vii–xvii portrait; W. R. Hughes’ C. Naden (1890) portrait; Mason coll. mag. Feb. 1890 pp. 47–55; Midland Institute mag. Feb. 1890 p. 223, March p. 240; Edgbastonia Feb. 1890 pp. 17–23 portrait; A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century, viii 571–8 (1893); E. C. Brewer’s Constance Naden and hydro-idealism (1891); Contemporary review April 1891 pp. 508–22; The Speaker No. 2 Jany. 11 1890 p. 35, by W. E. Gladstone, where he praises her Pantheistic song of immortality.

NAFTEL, Maud (only dau. of the succeeding). b. 1 June 1856; studied at Slade school of art in London, and in Paris under Carolus Duran; exhibited 8 drawings at the Dudley gallery 1877–82, and at the Dudley Gallery art soc. 2 drawings 1883–5; was noted for her paintings of flowers; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours March 1887, where she exhibited 16 drawings; exhibited 2 flower pieces at R.A. 1875–8; author of Flowers and how to paint them 1886. d. 76 Elm park road, Chelsea 18 Feb. 1890. J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii 352, 428–9 (1891).

NAFTEL, Paul Jacob (son of Paul Naftel of Guernsey). b. Guernsey 10 Sept. 1817; professor of drawing at Elizabeth college, Guernsey; associate of the Old Society of Painters in water-colours 11 Feb. 1856, member 13 June 1859, exhibited 550 works; a landscape drawing-master in water-colours, London 1870 to death; resided at 4 St. Stephen’s sq. Westminster 1870–83, and then at 76 Elm park road; designed the illustrations for Ansted and Latham’s The Channel Islands 1862. d. 1 Walpole gardens, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 13 Sept. 1891. J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii 352–4 (1891).

Note.—His wife exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., and 9 at Suffolk st. 1857–79.

NAGHTEN, Arthur Robert (son of Thomas Naghten of Crofton house, Titchfield, Hants). b. 23 April 1829; educ. Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1853; M.P. Winchester 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; captain Hampshire artillery 3 Aug. 1859, major 1872–5; a director of Southampton dock co. d. Blightmont, Southampton 7 Aug. 1881.

NAGLE, James. b. co. Cork; sessional crown prosecutor in East Riding of co. Cork 1836–53; master of the crown office in Ireland, queen’s coroner and attorney and clerk of the crown 1853 to death. d. 90 Pembroke road, Dublin 11 Sept. 1875. Irish Law Times ix 470, 535 (1875).

NAIRN, William Edward (1 son of Wm. Nairn, major 46 foot). b. Lynecombe, Somerset 1812; matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 21 Jany. 1830; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1830–4; B.A. 1833; went with sir John Franklin to Van Diemen’s Land 1837; secretary to board of education 1839; clerk to the executive and legislative councils 1841; assistant colonial secretary 1842; deputy controller general of convicts 1843, controller general 1855; sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land 1855; member for Meander of legislative council 1856–69; president of the council Sept. 1859 to Aug. 1868. d. Hobart Town 9 July 1869.

NAIRNE, Charles Murray. b. Perth 15 April 1808; graduated at Univ. of St. Andrews 1830, and afterwards at Edinburgh; assistant to Dr. Thomas Chalmers at Glasgow; taught at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, New York 1847; established a private school in New York; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and literature in Columbia college 1857–81, emeritus professor 1881 to death; received degree of L.H.D. from the regents of New York 1865; author of Two lectures of the annual psychological course in Columbia college, New York 1866, and of many pamphlets. d. Warrenton, Virginia 28 May 1882.

NAIRNE, Robert. Educ. Edinb. and at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1832, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838; physician to St. George’s hospital 1839, then senior physician and lecturer on medicine; a comr. in lunacy April 1857 to July 1883, hon. comr. 1883 to death. d. Mossley, Beckenham 5 Nov. 1886. The Lancet 13 Nov. 1886 p. 955, 20 Nov. p. 1005.

NAISH, John (2 son of Carrol Naish of Ballycullen, co. Limerick). b. 1841; ed. at Jesuit school of Clongowes Wood in Kildare, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar in science 1861, B.A. 1863; won the studentship given by inns of court, London; called to Irish bar 1865; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880; bencher of King’s Inns 1883; law adviser to Dublin castle 1880–3; solicitor general for Ireland 9 Jany. 1883, attorney general 19 Dec. 1884 to 21 May 1885; contested Mallow 25 June 1883; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1885; lord chancellor of Ireland 21 May to 1 July 1885, being the second Roman Catholic chancellor since the reformation; lord justice of appeal Aug. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and June 1886 to death; lord chancellor again Feb. to July 1886. d. Ems 17 Aug. 1890. bur. at Ems. Our judges, By Rhadamanthus (1890) 45–9 portrait; Irish law times xxiv 446–7 (1890); Law Journal 23 Aug. 1890 p. 514.

NAISH, William (son of Francis Naish, silversmith). b. High st. Bath 9 March 1785; haberdasher at 37 Gracechurch st. London 1823–34; published many tracts and pamphlets in favour of the anti-slavery movement which he sold at his shop 1829–30; resided sometime at Maidstone; author of The negroe’s remembrancer, 13 numbers; The negroe’s friend, 26 numbers; Reasons for using East Indian sugar 1828; The negro slave, a tale 1830; Sketches from the history of Pennsylvania 1845; The fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah 1853, and of a number of 4 page Quaker tracts. d. Bath 4 March 1860. bur. Friends burial ground at Widcombe Hill near Bath. J. Smith’s Catalogue ii 210–14 (1867).

Note.—His son Arthur John Naish, b. 1816, founded with Paul Bevan the valuable Bevan-Naish library of Friend’s books, now deposited in the library, Dr. Johnson passage, Birmingham, he d. 1889.

NALLY, Patrick W. b. co. Mayo 1857; tried Dec. 1883 and again in 1884 at Cork, and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for being concerned in the Crossmolins conspiracy to murder case; detained in Mountjoy prison, Dublin from 1882–6, in Downpatrick gaol and 1886, again at Mountjoy; preparation had been made for a Nally testimonial on his expected release from prison on 27 Nov. 1891. d. Mountjoy prison, Dublin 9 Nov. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 14 Nov., when a large number of people attended. The Freeman’s Journal 10 Nov. 1891 p. 5, 16 Nov. p. 5.

NAPIER OF MAGDALA, Robert Cornelis Napier, 1 Baron (son of Charles Frederick Napier, major R.A. d. 1812). b. Colombo, Ceylon 6 Dec. 1810; ed. at Addiscombe 1824–6; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826; laid out the new settlement of Dargiling 1838–42; served at battles of Ferozeshah 21 Dec. 1845, and Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; served in the second Sikh war 1848–9; civil engineer to board of administration of the Punjab 1849–56 where he carried out important public works; officiating chief engineer of Bengal 1857; military secretary and chief of the adjutant general’s department in Oudh, and at relief of Lucknow 1857, severely wounded at second relief of Lucknow 17 Nov. 1857, commanded a brigade of engineers at siege of Lucknow 21 March 1858; commanded the Central India force May 1858, defeated Tantia Topee in June, commanded the Gwalior division 29 June, captured the rebel leaders Man Singh and Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; commanded the second division in the expedition to China Jany. 1860, took the Peiho forts 21 Aug. 1860; military member of council of governor general of India Jany. 1861 to Jany. 1865; commander-in-chief of the Bombay army Jany 1865; commanded the expedition to Abyssinia which landed at Zoulah 2 Jany. 1868, defeated the troops of King Theodore 10 April and stormed Magdala 13 April; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 27 July 1858, G.C.B. 27 April 1868; G.C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; created baron Napier of Magdala in Abyssinia and of Caryngton in the county palatine of Cheshire 14 July 1868; received freedom of cities of London 21 July 1868 and of Edinburgh 15 Sept. 1868; hon. colonel of 3rd London rifle corps 22 July 1868 to death; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1869; commander-in-chief in India Jany. 1870 to 10 April 1876; col. commandant of the R.E. 1 April 1874 to death; general 1 April 1874; governor of Gibraltar 30 June 1876 to 1 Jany. 1883; field marshal 1 Jany. 1883; constable of Tower of London 6 Jany. 1887 to death. d. 63 Eaton sq. London 14 Jany. 1890. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 21 Jany. equestrian statue by Boehm erected in Calcutta 1876, a replica of which was unveiled in Waterloo place, London 8 July 1891. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age (1870) 308–71; T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 228–35; C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition (1869) 140 et seq.; E. H. Nolan’s Indian mutiny iii 71 portrait; I.L.N. li 349, 350 (1867) portrait, 18 July 1891 p. 67 view of statue; Graphic xvii 293 (1878) portrait.

Note.—He is depicted under the name of general Sutton in the novel called Chronicles of Dustypore, a tale of modern Anglo-Indian society. By the author of Wheat and Tares (H. S. Cunningham). 2 vols. 1875.

NAPIER, Alexander (6 son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). b. Edinburgh 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1847; V. of Holkham, Norfolk 1847 to death; chaplain and librarian to earl of Leicester; R. of Egmere with Waterden 1847 to death; edited Isaac Barrow’s Theological Works, 9 vols. Camb. 1859; Life of Samuel Johnson, by J. Boswell, 5 vols. 1884, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1884; translated and edited J. A. W. Neander’s The epistle to the Philippians and the general epistle of James 1851; Karl Elze’s Lord Byron 1872; Julius Payer’s New lands within the Arctic circle, 2 vols. 1876; A. T. F. Michaelis’ The Holkham bust of Thucydides 1878; his wife Robina Napier translated Memoirs of prince Metternich 1773–1815, edited by prince Richard Metternich, 5 vols. 1880–4; he d. Holkham vicarage 24 Aug. 1887. Quarterly Review Oct. 1869 pp. 353–81.

NAPIER, Sir Charles (eld. son of Charles Napier of Merchiston hall, Stirlingshire, captain in the navy 1731–1807). b. Merchiston hall 6 March 1786; entered navy 1 Nov. 1799, captain 22 May 1809; lost his fortune in an attempt to promote iron steamers on the Seine 1819–27; vice-admiral, major general of the Portuguese navy and commander-in-chief of the fleet in the cause of Donna Maria and Dom Pedro 8 June to 15 Oct. 1833; defeated the squadron of Dom Miguel off Cape St. Vincent 3 July 1833; promoted to rank of admiral and created viscount Cape St. Vincent in peerage of Portugal July 1833; granted grand cross of order of the Tower and Sword and created count Cape St. Vincent by Dom Pedro; captain H.M.S. Powerful, 84 guns, 1 Jany. 1839; commanded a squadron off Syria June 1840, took Beyrout from the Egyptians 10 Oct. 1840, and Acre 3 Nov.; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 Dec. 1840, received orders of Maria Theresa of Austria, of St. George of Russia, of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and the first class of the Medjidie; presented with freedom of city of London 23 Sept. 1841; captain on h.p. 1841; naval A.D.C. to the queen 30 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the channel fleet May 1847 to April 1849; V.A. 28 May 1853; commanded the fleet in the Baltic sea 25 Feb. 1854 to 19 Feb. 1855, where he blockaded all the Russian ports; admiral 6 March 1858; contested Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1832 and Greenwich 1837; M.P. Marylebone 1841–7; M.P. Southwark 1855–60; author of An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel, 2 vols. 1836; The life of sir C. Napier, chiefly by himself, 3 ed. 1841 portrait; The war in Syria, 2 vols, 1842; The history of the Baltic campaign 1857. d. Merchiston hall, Horndean, Hants. 6 Nov. 1860. bur. at Catherington; portrait by T. M. Joy in painted hall at Greenwich, and another portrait by John Simpson in National portrait gallery, Edinburgh. E. D. H. E. Napier’s Life of sir C. Napier, 2 vols. (1862) portrait; Men of the time (1857) 558–64; G.M. x 209–16 (1861); E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i 310 (1855) portrait; Sporting Review xxxii 205–7 (1854) portrait; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 93–101, 121 portrait; I.L.N. ii 175 (1843) portrait, xxiv 207, 208 (1854) portrait.

NAPIER, Sir Charles James (eld. son of colonel the hon. George Napier 1751–1804). b. Whitehall, London 10 Aug. 1782; ensign 33 foot 31 Jany. 1794; lieut. 89 foot 8 May 1794; captain in the staff corps 22 Dec. 1803; major 50 foot 6 Nov. 1806 to 27 June 1811; served in Spain, was wounded five times at battle of Corunna 16 Jany. 1809, a prisoner at Corunna Jany. 1809 to Jany. 1810; lieut. col. 102 foot 27 June 1811 to 2 Sept. 1813; commanded a brigade against U.S. of America May 1813 for some months; lieut. col. 50 foot 2 Sept. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1814; served as a volunteer against Napoleon 1815; inspecting field officer in the Ionian Islands 30 July 1818, placed on h.p. 1 March 1832; resident of Cephalonia March 1822 to 1830; commanded troops in northern district, India April 1839, and at Poona 12 Dec. 1841; commanded the Sinde and Beloochistan division 24 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1846; won the battle of Meanee with 2,700 men against more than 20,000 men 17 Feb. 1843; defeated Shir Muhammad, the Lion of Mirpur, at Haidarabad 24 March 1843; Sinde finally annexed 24 May 1844; col. of 22 foot 21 Nov. 1843 to death; captured Bega Khan Dumki, the leading hill chief 9 March 1845; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-in-chief in India 7 March 1849 to 6 Dec. 1850; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 4 July 1843; author of Memoir on the roads of Cephalonia 1825; The colonies, treating of their value generally, of the Ionian islands in particular 1833; Remarks on military law and flogging 1837; A letter on the baggage of the Indian army 1849; A letter on the defence of England by volunteers and militia 1852. d. Oaklands, near Portsmouth 29 Aug. 1853. bur. in ground attached to garrison chapel at Landport; bronze statue by G. G. Adams in Trafalgar sq. London, unveiled 26 Nov. 1856. W. F. P. Napier’s Life of sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols. (1857) 4 portraits; W. N. Bruce’s Life of general sir C. Napier (1885) portrait; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 316–21; E. H. Nolan’s Illust. history of British empire in India ii 669 (1860) portrait; G.M. xl 410–6 (1853); Men of the time (1853) 330–3; I.L.N. ii 255 (1843) portrait, xiv 145, 146 (1849) 2 portraits, xxiii 191, 192, 229, 230, 431 (1853) portrait.

Note.—He was the first general who recorded in his despatches the names of private soldiers who had distinguished themselves side by side with officers. A portrait of him photographed by W. E. Kilburn on 24 March 1849, has been engraved in line by Joseph Skelton. He was called in the army “Old Fagin” from his strong likeness to the Jew in Oliver Twist.

NAPIER, David. b. 1790; founded with his cousin Robert Napier, the firm of Napier and Sons, shipbuilders and marine engineers, Govan, Glasgow; introduced coasting steamers for the post office service 1818; established regular steam communication between Greenock and Belfast, and in 1822 between Liverpool, Greenock, and Glasgow; constructed machinery for the United Kingdom 1826, the largest vessel then designed; invented the steeple engine; tried the application of the surface condenser in marine engines; proposed a plan for removal of the Glasgow sewage by means of barges. d. 8 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 23 Nov. 1869. Glasgow daily herald 27 Nov. 1869 pp. 4, 5; Engineering 3 Dec. 1869 p. 365.

NAPIER, Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers (elder son of Edward Elers, lieutenant R.N., d. 1814). b. 1808; took additional name of Napier from his mother’s second husband, admiral sir Charles Napier; ensign 46 foot 11 Aug. 1825, major 11 Oct. 1839, retired on h.p. 14 Oct. 1842; served in India 1830–3; obtained release of Syrian troops detained by Mahomet Ali, and conducted them to Beyrout, May to Sept. 1841; commanded bodies of irregulars during the Kaffir war 1846–7; colonel of 61 foot 3 Oct. 1864, and of 46 foot 22 Feb. 1870 to death; L.G. 3 Oct. 1864; author of Scenes and sports in foreign lands, 2 vols. 1840; Excursions along the shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols. 1842; Reminiscenses of Syria, 2 vols. 1843; Wild sports in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 2 vols. 1844; Excursions in Southern Africa, 2 vols. 1849; The life of admiral sir Charles Napier, 2 vols. 1862. d. Westhill, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 19 June 1870. Colburn’s United service mag. Aug. 1870 pp. 484–92.

NAPIER, George (son of George Napier, solicitor). b. 1802; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1823; advocate depute 1830–4 and 1835–40; sheriff of Peebleshire 1840 to death. d. Coates hall, Haymarket terrace, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1883.

NAPIER, Sir George Thomas (brother of sir Charles James Napier 1782–1853). b. Whitehall, London 30 June 1784; cornet 24 light dragoons 25 Jany. 1800; lieut. 52 foot 25 Dec. 1802, major 27 June 1811; served in Sicily, Sweden, and Portugal, and in the Peninsular campaigns 1809–11; lost his right arm at assault on Ciudad Rodrigo 19 Jany. 1812; deputy adjutant general of the York district 1812; lieut. col. 71 foot 24 March 1814; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814; lieut. col. 44 foot 22 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. 19 April 1821; governor and commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 4 Oct. 1837 to 12 Dec. 1843, where he enforced the abolition of slavery, and abolished inland taxation; declined command of Sardinian army 1849; col. of 1 West India regiment 29 Feb. 1844 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; author of Passages in the early military life of general sir G. T. Napier, edited by W. C. E. Napier 1884, 2 ed. 1886. d. Geneva 8 Sept. 1855, his body was brought to England July 1881 and bur. in family vault at Cosham near Portsmouth. Passages in the early military life of Sir G. T. Napier (1886) portrait.

NAPIER, George Thomas Conolly (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1815; ensign 52 foot 7 Sept. 1832; lieut. Cape mounted riflemen 23 Feb. 1839, lieut. col. 17 May 1850 to 28 Jany. 1853, when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the queen 20 June 1854 to Dec. 1861; deputy quartermaster general North America 1 July 1859 to 6 Dec. 1861; M.G. on the staff in Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 1 Jany. 1867; col. 96 foot 14 June 1869 to 10 May 1872; col. 22 foot 10 May 1872 to death; L.G. 30 April 1871; C.B. 31 May 1853. d. Morpeth terrace, Victoria st. Westminster 5 May 1873.

NAPIER, Henry Alfred (youngest son of 8 baron Napier 1758–1823). b. 20 June 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; R. of Swyncombe, near Henley 13 Oct. 1826 to death; author of Historical notices of the parishes of Swyncombe and Ewelme, Oxfordshire 1858, 4to. 63/-, published by himself at Oxford. d. Swyncombe rectory 20 Nov. 1871. I.L.N. lix 531 (1871).

NAPIER, Henry Edward (brother of sir George Thomas Napier 1784–1855). b. 5 March 1789; entered navy 20 Sept. 1806; served in the East Indies 1808–11; lieutenant 4 May 1810; commanded the Goree, 18 guns, 7 June 1814, and afterwards the Rifleman, 18 guns, in the Bay of Fundy; placed on h.p. Aug. 1815, captain on h.p. 31 Dec. 1830; F.R.S. 18 May 1820; author of Florentine history, from the earliest authentic records to the accession of Ferdinand the third, 6 vols. 1846–7. d. 62 Cadogan place, London 13 Oct. 1853.

NAPIER, James. b. Partick, Glasgow June 1810; apprenticed to a dyer; studied at Glasgow univ.; lived in London and Swansea several years; returned to Glasgow about 1849–50, where he became closely associated with Anderson’s college and the technical school founded by James Young; author of A manual of electro-metallurgy 1851, 5 ed. 1876; A manual of the art of dyeing, Glasgow 1853; A manual of dyeing receipts 1855, 3 ed. 1875; The ancient workers in metal, from references in the Old Testament 1856; Stonehaven and its historical associations, 2 ed. 1870; Notes relating to Partick 1873; Manufacturing arts in ancient times 1874; Folk lore or superstitious beliefs in the West of Scotland 1879; illustrated J. Mac Arthur’s The antiquities of Arran 1861, 2 ed. 1873. d. Bothwell, Lanarkshire 1 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, James Robert (son of Robert Napier of Shandon 1791–1876). b. Camlachie 12 Sept. 1821; educ. Glasgow high sch. and univ.; managed his father’s ship building at Govan 1841; invented plan of working outside plating of ships in alternate in and out strakes; a partner in firm of R. Napier and sons 1853–7; a shipbuilder on his own account a few years; engaged in West Scotland fishery co.; invented the graphic method of correcting deviations of a ship’s compass known as Napier’s Diagram 1851; invented Napier’s Glass coffee apparatus; took out many patents; a founder of Institution of engineers in Scotland, president 1863; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; M.I.N.A.; wrote 17 scientific papers; contributed to Macquorn Rankine’s Shipbuilding, theoretical and practical 1866; edited Francis Napier’s Australian notes. d. 22 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 13 Dec. 1879. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men (1886) 115, 118, 237–40, 243, 270 portrait; Nature xxi 206.

NAPIER, Sir Joseph, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Wm. Napier of Belfast, merchant, d. 1830). b. Belfast 26 Dec. 1804; ed. at Belfast academical institution; entered Trin. coll. Dublin Nov. 1820; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, LL.B. and LL.D. 1851; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; revived the Old College historical society, president 1854 to death; student at Gray’s Inn 1828; called to Irish bar 1831; the only lawyer in Dublin who had pupils; delivered lectures on the common law, and established a law institute in Dublin; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844; much employed in appeals before the house of lords; contested univ. of Dublin 9 Aug. 1847; M.P. univ. of Dublin 1848–58; introduced and carried through the house of commons the ecclesiastical code, afterwards known as Napier’s ecclesiastical code; bencher of King’s Inns 1852; attorney general of Ireland March to Dec. 1852; P.C. Ireland 1852; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854; lord chancellor of Ireland 10 March 1858 to June 1859; created baronet 26 March 1867; the special champion of the Irish church; vice-chancellor of Dublin univ. 1867 to Dec. 1879; one of the 26 members of the ritual commission June 1867; P.C. 11 Nov. 1868; member of judicial committee of privy council 11 Nov. 1868 to Jany. 1881; chief comr. of the great seal Ireland 11 March 1874 to 1 January 1875; edited with John C. Alcock Reports of cases argued in the courts of King’s Bench and exchequer chamber in Ireland 1831–3, Dublin 1834; author of A manual of precedents of forms and declarations on bills of exchange and promissory notes 1831; Digest of the civil bill and manor courts statutes, Dublin 1836, 2 ed. 1843; Essay on the communion service of the church of England or Rome, which shall govern Ireland 1851, 2 ed. 1851; and many Addresses and Speeches 1854–73. d. St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 9 Dec. 1882. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin, memorial tablets in mortuary chapel of the cemetery and in St. Patrick’s cathedral. A. C. Ewald’s Life of Sir Joseph Napier (1887) portrait; O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 293–307; Sir Joseph Napier’s Lectures, essays, and letters (1888) portrait; I.L.N. xiv 405 (1849) portrait, xxxiii 394 (1858) portrait; Graphic xxvii 60 (1883) portrait.

NAPIER, Macvey (son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). b. 1807 or 1808; edited Selections from the correspondence of the late Macvey Napier 1879. d. 7 Pembroke villas, Richmond, Surrey 8 July 1893.

NAPIER, Mark (only son of Francis Napier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). b. 24 July 1798; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; advocate at Scottish bar 1820; sheriff depute of Dumfriesshire 4 Nov. 1844 to death, and of Galloway to death; author of Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston 1834; History of the partition of the Lennox 1835; Montrose and the covenanters, 2 vols. 1838; Commentaries on the law of prescription in Scotland 1839, 2 ed. 1854; Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, 2 vols. 1856. d. 6 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1879. Journal of jurisprudence xxiii 652 (1880).

NAPIER, Peter. b. Dumbarton 1793; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1847; assistant presbyterian minister at Port Glasgow 1815; minister of St. George’s in the Fields, Glasgow 1824; minister of Blackfriars ch. Glasgow 1845 to death; author of A course of lectures on infidelity 1842; Grace exhibited, grace communicated 1845. d. Glasgow 12 March 1865. H. Scott’s Fasti ii, part 1 p. 35 (1868); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 315–22.

NAPIER, Robert (son of James Napier, blacksmith and millwright). b. Dumbarton 18 June 1791; apprenticed to his father 1807–12; blacksmith in Greyfriars’ Wynd, Glasgow 1815; ironfounder and engineer at the Camlachie works in Gallowgate 1821, constructed his first marine engine 1823 for the Leven; took extensive works, the Vulcan foundry in Washington st. 1828, and the Lancefield foundry on Anderston quay 1835, the works were sold 14 March 1877; engined all the paddle-wheel ships of the Cunard company 1840–55; took his sons into partnership 1853; opened a shipbuilding yard at Govan 1841, built his first ship the Vanguard 1843; began constructing iron ships 1850; built the Persia of 3,300 tons for the Cunard co. 1854; a juror at Paris exhibition 1855, received gold medal and legion of honour; built more than 300 vessels for the government and great companies 1856 to death; built men-of-war for the French, Turkish, Danish, and Dutch governments; M.I.C.E. 31 March 1840; M.I.M.E. 1856, president 1863–5. d. West Shandons, Glasgow 23 June 1876. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men (1886) 241–4 portrait; Engineering (1867) 594–7 portrait, (1876) 554–5; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlv 246–51 (1876) with list of all the vessels engined or built by him; Practical Mag. iii 1 (1874) portrait; Graphic xiv 44 (1876) portrait.

NAPIER, Robert D. (son of David Napier 1790–1869). b. Glasgow 1821; engineer with his father and his brother, Frank Napier, at Glasgow to 1837, then with them as engineers Millwall, London from 1837, where they built numerous steamships; went to New South Wales; dredged Sydney harbour; invented the self-holding brake; returned to Glasgow 1870, partner with his brother John D. Napier as Napier Brothers; manufactured self-holding brakes for ships’ windlasses, etc.; contributed to The Engineer and to Trans. of Institution of Engineers, Glasgow; author of On the velocity of steam and other gases 1866. d. Glasgow 8 May 1885. The Engineer 15 May 1885 p. 387.

NAPIER, Sir Robert John Milliken, 9 Baronet (eld. son of sir William John Milliken Napier, 8 baronet 1788–1852). b. Milliken house, near Johnstone, Renfrewshire 7 Nov. 1818; ensign 79 foot 7 Aug. 1835, captain 12 April 1844, sold out 9 June 1846; succeeded his father 4 Feb. 1852; deputy lieut. of Renfrewshire 1845, and convener 1859–65; lieut. col. commandant of Renfrewshire militia 31 March 1854, hon. col. 19 Jany. 1878 to death. d. 32 Moray place, Edinb. 4 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, Sir Thomas Erskine (brother of sir Charles Napier 1786–1860). b. 10 May 1790; ensign 52 foot 3 July 1805; captain in the Chasseurs Britanniques 27 Oct. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814, when the corps was disbanded; served in Sicily and Spain 1812–3; A.D.C. to sir John Hope in the Peninsula 1813, lost his left arm at battle of the Nive 11 Dec. 1813; assistant adjutant general in Ireland to 1843, deputy adjutant general 1843–6; governor of Edinburgh castle and commander of the troops in Scotland May 1852 to 20 June 1854; colonel of 16 foot 28 Jany 1854 and of 71 foot 16 May 1857 to death; general 20 Sept. 1861; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849. d. Polton house, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 5 July 1863.

NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick (brother of sir George Thomas Napier 1784–1855). b. Celbridge, co. Kildare 17 Dec. 1785; ensign royal Irish artillery 14 June 1800; ensign 62 foot 1800, lieut. 1801, placed on h.p. 1802; captain 43 foot 11 Aug. 1804, major 14 May 1812, placed on h.p. 17 June 1819; served at siege of Copenhagen 1807, in Spain 1808–9, and in Portugal 1809–13; granted £150 per annum for his distinguished services 29 May 1841; lieutenant-governor of Guernsey Feb. 1842 to Dec. 1847; colonel of 27 foot 5 Feb. 1848, and of 22 foot 19 Sept. 1853 to death; general 17 Oct. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France, from the year 1807 to the year 1814, 6 vols. 1828–40, 5 ed. 6 vols. 1851, upwards of 15 works appeared in reference to these volumes; The conquest of Scinde, 2 vols. 1845; The life and opinions of general sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1857. d. Scinde house, King’s road, Clapham park, London 10 Feb. 1860. bur. Norwood; statue by G. G. Adams in north transept of St. Paul’s cathedral. H. A. Bruce’s Life of sir W. F. P. Napier, 2 vols. (1864) 2 portraits; H. Martineau’s Biog. Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 199–212; I.L.N. xxxvi 172, 186 (1860) portrait.

NAPLETON, John Charles (9 son of rev. Timothy Napleton, R. of Powderham, Devon, d. 1816). b. 1811; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf., Bible clerk 1830–2; B.A. 1833; P.C. of Hatfield, Herefordshire 1844–58, and P.C. of Grendon Bishop 1849–58; P.C. of All Saints’, Lambeth 1858 to death; author of Daily services in the cottage 1848, new ed. 1877; The present condition of the working classes 1855; A letter to C. H. Spurgeon, touching his sermon on baptismal regeneration 1864. d. Bayswater, London 13 April 1867.

NAPOLEON III, Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (3 son of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1778–1847, king of Holland). b. Rue Cérutti, now Rue Lafitte, Paris 20 April 1808; became heir to the French empire 22 July 1832; arrived in London from America 10 July 1837; went to Arenenberg to attend his mother’s death bed 5 Oct. 1837; resided in London at Fenton’s hotel, 63 St. James’s st. from 24 Oct. 1838, at Waterloo place, at Carlton ter. to Dec. 1839, and at Carlton gardens to Aug. 1840; one of the ten knight visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839, tilted on foot with Charles Lamb in the ball room on 29 Aug.; attended on Wimbledon common 3 March 1840 to fight a duel with count Leon, a reputed son of Napoleon I, the police interfered and carried the parties to Bow st. where they were bound over to keep the peace; went from Margate to Boulogne and attempted to seize the government of France 6 Aug. 1840, condemned to perpetual imprisonment 6 Oct. 1840, sent to Ham, North France 10 Oct., escaped to England 25 May 1846; living at the Brunswick hotel, 52 Jermyn st. 27 May 1846; resided in Bath 1846; leased 3a King st. St. James, now 10 King st., from 1 Feb. 1847 at £300 a year, his furniture, etc. sold by auction 22 May 1849; charged Charles Pollard of Essex st. London with stealing two bills of exchange of £1,000 each, prisoner acquitted on technical grounds 3 July 1847; a special constable in London on day of Chartists’ procession 10 April 1848; author of Des Idées Napoleoniennes, London 1839, and of Canal of Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific, London 1846; president of the French republic 20 Dec. 1848; emperor of the French 2 Dec. 1852; m. 29 Jany. 1853 Eugénie Marie de Guzman, countess of Téba, b. 5 May 1826; with the empress visited the queen at Windsor and Buckingham palace 16–21 April 1855; K.G. 18 April 1855; entertained by city of London 19 April 1855; with the empress visited the queen at Osborne 6–9 Aug. 1857; hon. M.I.C.E. 23 May 1869; declared war against Prussia 15 July 1870, taken prisoner at Sedan 2 Sept., deposed at Paris 4 Sept., confined at Wilhelmshöhe near Cassel 5 Sept., released and landed at Dover 20 March 1871, resided at Camden place, Chislehurst, Kent to his death 9 Jany 1873. bur. St. Mary’s ch. Chislehurst 15 Jany., the remains removed to a mausoleum built by the empress at Farnborough, Surrey 9 Jany. 1888. Blanchard Jerrold’s Life of Napoleon III, 4 vols. (1874–82) seven portraits; Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit (1852); Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 94 portrait: Passing Events 18 Jany. 1873 portrait and other plates; I.L.N. 6 June 1846 pp. 364–5 portrait, 23 Dec. 1848 p. 385 portrait, 21 April to 5 May 1855 pp. 371 et seq. portraits, 15 Aug. 1857 p. 154, 25 March 1871 p. 283, 18 and 25 Jany. 1873 p. 65 et seq. portraits; J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament (1843) plates xviii, xx, and xxi; P. Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire xi 819–33 (1874).

Note.—His real father was Charles Henri Verhuel a well-known Dutch admiral, his mother was Hortense de Beauharnais, dau. of the empress Josephine, by her first marriage. He is depicted under the name of Porphyro in the novel entitled Rumour, By the author of Charles Auchester, Counterparts, &c., &c. [Miss Elizabeth S. Sheppard] 3 vols. 1858. He was known in France under the sobriquets of Badinguet, Boustrapa, The Man of December, and The Man of Sedan.

NARRIEN, John (son of a stonemason). b. Chertsey, Surrey 1782; a very skilful optician at 70 St. James’s st. London 1811–7; taught at R.M. college at Sandhurst 1814; mathematical professor in the senior department 1820–58, presented with many testimonials, and his portrait in 1841, retired on account of failure of his sight Feb. 1858; F.R.A.S.; F.R.S. 18 June 1840: author of An historical account of the origin and progress of astronomy 1833; Elements of geometry 1842; Practical astronomy and geodesy 1845; Analytical geometry 1846; with G. Tappen, Explanatory remarks on a method of building groined arches in brickwork 1808 and 1819. d. 16 Clarendon road, Kensington 30 March 1860. Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. vi 240 (1845), xviii 100 (1858), xxi 102 (1861); G.M. Aug. 1860 pp. 193–4; The Linesman, By Elers Napier ii 348, 369 (1856).

NASH, Charles. b. Bristol; a draper’s assistant; a commercial clerk in London; trained at the British and foreign school soc. Southwark; master of the Day ragged sch. Pye st. Westminster 1848–50; opened a reformatory institution for boys 28 St. Ann st. Westminster 1849, of which he became governor and corresponding secretary, when it was named The London colonial training institution and ragged dormitory 9 Great Smith st. Westminster; sec. to Hospital for diseases of the skin 25 New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 1853–7. I.L.N. xxiv 76 (1854) portrait; Samuel Marten’s A place of repentance, the London colonial training institution (1852) 1 et seq.

NASH, Charles Barnes (son of Rowland Nash 1784–1859). b. 1815; extensively engaged in the affairs of public companies from 1836; honoured with a leading article in The Times 1 Nov. 1844 p. 4; strongly advocated the narrow gauge interest 1846; devoted much time and money to expositions of affairs and battles of shareholders in various courts meetings &c. to 1852; persecuted by railway officials in the law courts and house of lords; edited History of the war in Afghanistan 1843; author of Railway and land taxation 1844; Railway carrying 1846; The railway robberies 1846; Railway robberies, the summing up in Waream v. Prance 1847; Railways and shareholders by An Endinbro’ Reviewer 1849; Chancery time tables 1853; Appeals in criminal cases 1860; Merchant shipping laws and remedies 1860; Public companies tracts, No. 8 Railway management Hare versus the London and North Western, by A Journalist 1861; with Rowland Nash Nash’s marriage and divorce law, 2 ed. 1859. d. 23 Valmar road, Denmark Hill, Surrey 21 Nov. 1892. Law Times 17 Dec. 1892 p. 164.

NASH, Frederick (son of a builder). b. Lambeth, London 28 March 1782; studied at the R.A.; architectural draftsman to society of antiquaries 1807; associate of society of painters in water-colours 1810, member 1811, seceded 1812, re-elected 1824; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. 63 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1799–1852; published a series of views of the collegiate chapel of St. George at Windsor 1805; pronounced by Turner to be the finest architectural painter of his day; resided at Brighton 1834 to death; four of his pictures are in South Kensington museum. d. 4 Montpellier road, Brighton 5 Dec. 1856. Art Journal (1857) 61.

NASH, Harry. Printer and stationer at Bournemouth 1873; connected with the Bournemouth Observer; proprietor and manager of theatre royal, Bournemouth 1881 to death; conducted the provincial tours of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels and of Mr. George Grossmith. d. Bournemouth 22 Oct. 1894 aged 41.

NASH, Joseph. Entered Bengal army 1812; ensign 7 Bengal N.I. 1 Nov. 1814 to 1816; ensign 22 N.I. 1816; lieut. 25 Dec. 1817; captain 43 N.I. 24 Jany. 1829; major 26 Sept. 1841 to 11 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. 72 N.I. 11 Nov. 1847 to 1852 of 18 N.I. 1852–5 and of 47 N.I. 1855–6; commandant at Delhi 7 Nov. 1854 to 27 Feb. 1856; col. of 46 N.I. 15 July 1857 to death; L.G. 23 March 1869; C.B. 27 June 1846. d. Dehra, Meerut 1 Jany. 1870.

NASH, Joseph (son of rev. Okey Nash who kept the Manor house school at Croydon). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 17 Dec. 1809; pupil of Augustus Pugin the architect; associate of society of painters in water-colours 1834, member 1842; published Architecture of the middle ages 1838; The mansions of England in the olden time 4 series 1839–49; lithographed Sir D. Wilkie’s Sketches in Turkey 1843, Sir D. Wilkie’s Sketches in Spain 1846, and Views of Windsor Castle 1848; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1831–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1878; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; E. Macdermott’s The merrie days of England 1859; Old English ballads 1864; with L. Haghe and others painted Dickinson’s comprehensive picture of the great exhibition of 1851 executed for prince Albert 1854. d. Hereford road, Bayswater, London 19 Dec. 1878. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists II 120–32 (1880); I.L.N. lxxiv 21 (1879) portrait.

NASH, Rowland (son of James Nash, architect d. 1842 aged 95). b. 1784; served in the Volunteers 1799; assistant registrar and solicitor at the bishop’s registry, diocese of Lincoln, some years; lost heavily in lottery speculations; edited the Star newspaper in London; a colonial and parliamentary agent in London; author of Nash’s Marriage and divorce law 1859. d. 45 Amwell st. Clerkenwell, London 10 Sept. 1859. Law Times 1 Oct. 1859 pp. 22–3.

NASMITH, David (1 son of David Nasmith of London). b. 1829; matric. univ. of London 1849; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1865; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1888; had an extensive practice in the common law courts; F.S.S.; hon. LL.D. of St. Andrew’s univ.; translated J. L. E. Ortolan’s The history of Roman law 1871; author of The chronometrical chart of the history of England 1863; The institutes of English public law 1873; The institutes of English private law 1875; The institutes of English adjective law 1879; Outline of history from Romulus to Justinian 1890; Makers of modern thought, 2 vols. 1892; he also published a series called The practical linguist, French and German, 7 vols. 1870–3; resided 37 Norland sq. London. d. Evelyn house, Herne Bay, Kent 10 July 1894.

NASMYTH, Charles (eld. son of Robert Nasmyth, F.R.C.S Edinb.) b. Edinburgh Sept. 1825; ed. at Addiscombe 1843–5; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 12 Dec. 1845, 1 lieut. 4 Feb. 1850; Times correspondent in Omar Pasha’s camp at Shumla; reached Silistria 28 March 1854, before it was invested by the Russians, Nasmyth and captain J. A. Butler conducted the defence for the Turks, and continually headed sorties against the besiegers, the Russians compelled to raise the siege 22 June 1854; freedom of city of Edinburgh conferred on him 2 March 1855; appointed captain unattached and brevet major in British army 15 Sept. 1854 for his services at Silistria; present at battle of the Alma and siege of Sevastapol; assistant adjutant general of Kilkenny district 1855; brigade major at the Curragh camp 1856–7; brigade major of second infantry brigade, Dublin 1857–8; brigade major at Sydney, N.S.W. 1858–9; major of 4 foot 25 May 1860, but sold out same day. d. Pau, France 2 June 1861. I.L.N. xxxix 36 (1861) portrait.

NASMYTH, James Hall (son of Alexander Nasmyth, artist 1758–1840). b. 47 York place, Edinburgh 19 Aug. 1808; ed. at Edinb. high school 1817, and at school of arts 1821; assistant to Henry Maudslay, engineer at Lambeth, London May 1829, and to his partner, Joshua Field Feb. to Aug. 1831; invented a flexible shaft for driving small drills 1829, and the nut-shaping machine 1830; engineer in Dale st. Manchester 1834; built the Bridgewater foundry at Patricroft, near Manchester 1836; partner with Holbrook Gaskell 1836–52; made many improvements in machine tools; invented the steam hammer 1839, which he patented 9 June 1842; erected the first steam hammer in this country at Patricroft 1843; applied steam hammer to pile driving 1845; proposed the use of chilled cast-iron shot 1862; retired from business 1856, lived at Penshurst, Kent 1856 to death; contributed Remarks on tools and machines to T. Baker’s Elements of mechanism 1858, 2 ed. 1867; author with James Carpenter of The Moon, considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite 1874, 3 ed. 1885. d. Bailey’s hotel, Gloucester road, South Kensington 7 May 1890. James Nasmyth, an autobiography, edited by S. Smiles (1883) portrait.

NASON, John. b. 19 Sept. 1827; ensign 49 foot 9 May 1846, captain 29 Oct. 1854; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, lieut. col. 3 March 1866, placed on h.p. 13 June 1870; lieut. col. brigade depôt 1 April 1873, placed on h.p. 1 April 1878; A.A.G. Northern district 1 Oct. 1870 to 31 March 1873; A.A. and Q.M.G. Northern district 8 May 1880 to 20 Dec. 1881; M.G. 10 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 April 1885. d. Comrie, Perthshire 23 April 1891.

NATHAN, Baron (brother of the succeeding). b. 1793; teacher of dancing at 10 Kennington Cross, London 1844 to death; master of the ceremonies and managing director at Rosherville gardens, near Gravesend, many years, where on his benefit night he used to dance a hornpipe blindfolded in the midst of a number of eggs, placed on various parts of the stage, without once touching an egg, this was known as the egg hornpipe; there are many portraits of him in the early vols. of Punch. d. 10 Kennington Cross, London 6 Dec. 1856.

NATHAN, Isaac (son of jewish parents). b. Canterbury 1792; educ. Cambridge; articled to Dominico Corri of London, Italian composer; made his début on the stage as Henry Bertram in Bishop’s opera Guy Mannering at Covent Garden 12 March 1816, but his voice was not strong enough for the stage; dramatist and musical composer; musical historian to George IV and instructor in music to princess Charlotte of Wales; went to Sydney N.S.W. 1841, where he frequently lectured on music; author of An essay on the history of music 1823; Musurgia vocalis; an essay on the history of music 1836 vol. 1 no more published; Fugitive pieces and reminiscences of Lord Byron 1829; Memoirs of Madame Malibran de Beriot 1836, 3 ed. 1836; The Southern Euphrosyne and Australian miscellany, Sydney 1846; Lectures on music 1846; composer of A selection of ancient and modern Hebrew melodies, poetry by lord Bryon, music by J. Braham and I. Nathan 1815; God save the Regent, a national song 1818; Sweethearts and wives, an operatic comedy Haymarket 7 July 1823 ran 50 nights; The Alcaid, a comic opera Haymarket 10 Aug. 1824; The illustrious stranger, an operatic farce Drury Lane 4 Oct. 1827; Merry freaks, an operatic drama Sydney 1851; resided at Byron lodge, Randwick, Sydney. killed descending from a tramcar in Pitt st. Sydney 15 Jany. 1864. bur. Camperdown cemet. 17 Jany. Notes and Queries viii 494, ix 71, 137, 178, 197, 355 (1883–4); Georgian Era iv 280 (1834).

NATHAN, Moses Nathan. b. 1805; Jewish rabbi at Denmark court synagogue, London then at Liverpool 1829; one of the first to give instruction to Jews in the English language; the first to preach for the benefit of a christian institution, the Liverpool dispensary 1833; minister in Jamaica, St. Thomas and New Orleans; author of Prepare to meet thy God 0 Israel, a sermon, Jamaica 1843; A defence of ancient rabbinical interpretation of the law of Deut. xxiii, 3, an answer to J. M. De Solla, Kingston, Jam. 5621 (1861). d. Bath 13 May 1883. bur. Ball’s Pond cemet. Jewish World 18 May 1883 p. 2.

NAYLOR, Henry. First appeared on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 26 Dec. 1847 as the Henchman in Harlequin King gold; pantaloon in the Christmas pantomimes at Sadler’s Wells theatre Dec. 1852 to Dec. 1857; prompter at Vaudeville theatre, played the Butler in Our Boys there 4 Feb. 1879. d. 6 Feb. 1879 aged 60.

NAYLOR, James. b. Glasgow 1817; connected with Fox, Henderson & Co. London and Birmingham; established the Britannia engineering works, Birkenhead 1852; inventor of the floating graving dock; inventor and builder of the largest steam cranes in the world; a leading contractor to the admiralty nearly 40 years. d. 12 Sept. 1894.

NAYLOR, Sidney. b. Kensington, London 24 July 1841; pianist, conductor, and composer; organist successively at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, St. Michael’s, Bassishaw, and St. Mary’s, Newington; had remarkable facility in transposition of music; one of the best accompanists to vocalists in his day; accompanist to Sims Reeves from 1870, and at London ballad concerts many years; partner with Carl Rosa in his second opera season 1874; composed a Te Deum, The Well of St. Keyne, a ballad 1880, and other songs; m. 16 Dec. 1868 Blanche Cole, soprano singer, they separated, she d. 30 Aug. 1888; he d. London 4 March 1893. bur. West Brompton cemet. Illust. sp. and dr. news 11 March 1893 p. 24 portrait.

NAYLOR, Thomas Hacke (son of Thomas Hargrave Naylor of Carisbrook, Isle of Wight). b. 4 Dec. 1809; educ. at Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1841; went Norfolk circuit; recorder of Sudbury and judge of court of pleas of that borough Aug. 1866 to death; mayor of Cambridge 1872–3, and 1877–8; author of Cases in election law decided in Cambridge borough scrutiny 1857. d. The Hill house, Chesterton, Cambs. 3 March 1882. Law Journal lxxii 376 (1882).

NAYLOR, William. b. 8 May 1782; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Retford 1802–3, Gainsborough 1803–5, Edinburgh 1805–7, Liverpool 1820–3, London 1829–35 and 1850–3, Manchester 1847–50; author of The visions of sapience, reply to a malignant attack on Methodism by J. Douglas, Leeds 1815; Miscellaneous musings, poems 1835; Hymns for personal, domestic, and social worship, Manchester 1850; Selections from a minister’s manuscripts, Wednesbury 1854, and 24 other books, chiefly sermons. d. 1868.

NEALE, Edward St. John (son of Daniel Neale of Supreme court, Madras). Joined the Liberating army of Portugal 20 Sept. 1832, engaged in attack on St. Sebastian May 1836; member of order of St. Ferdinand; accompanied sir G. L. Hodges to Servia May 1837; in charge of consulate at Belgrade; British vice-consul at Alexandria 1841; consul at Varna in Bulgaria 1847; consul for the Morea 1858; consul at Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro 1858; secretary of legation in China 3 Jany. 1860, in Japan 25 Jany. 1862, and at Athens 21 April 1865; chargé d’affaires and consul general at Guayaquil, Equador 14 Aug. 1865 to death; C.B. 27 Nov. 1863. d. the British legation house, Quito 11 Dec. 1866. I.L.N. xliv 208 (1864) portrait; F.O. List Jany. 1867 pp. 133, 180.

NEALE, Edward Vansittart (only son of Edward Vansittart, rector of Taplow, Bucks., who took surname of Neale 1805, and d. 21 Jany. 1850). b. Bath 2 April 1810; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; barrister L.I. 5 May 1837; joined the Christian Socialists 1850; founded the first London co-operative stores at Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq.; established the Central co-operative agency 1851; spent £40,000 in his efforts to promote co-operation; helped to found the Cobden Mills 1866, and the Agricultural and Horticultural association 1867; promoted the annual co-operative congress from 1869; a member of London section of the Central board 1872–5, general secretary to the board 1875, resigned 11 Sept. 1891; author of Feasts and fasts, an essay on the laws relating to Sundays and other holidays and days of fasting 1845; The co-operator’s handbook 1861; The analogy of thought and nature investigated 1863; The mythical element in christianity 1872 and many addresses and lectures. d. Bentinck st. Manchester sq. London 16 Sept. 1892. bur. Bisham churchyard. A Vansittart Neale scholarship founded at Oriel college, and a memorial tablet with marble bust portrait unveiled in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral 3 March 1894. Life of F. D. Maurice ii 75, 157, 220, 232 (1884); Holyoake’s History of co-operation i 139, ii 55, 58, 59, 393, 435 (1875–7); Holyoake’s Co-operative movement to-day (1891) 25, 29, 47, 51, 95, 103, 127; Beatrice Potter’s Co-operative movement in Great Britain (1891) 122 et seq.; Economic Review Jany. 1893 pp. 38–94, April 1893 pp. 174, 189.

NEALE, Erskine (son of Adam Neale, army physician, d. 1832). b. 12 March 1804; ed. at Westminster and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; lecturer of St. Hilda church, Jarrow 24 June 1828; V. of Adlingfleet, Yorkshire 19 Oct. 1835–44; R. of Kirton, Suffolk 1844–54; V. of Exning with Lanwade, Suffolk 1854 to death; an expert in handwriting, a witness at the trial of Ryves v. the attorney general June 1866; author of The living and the dead, By A Country Curate 1827, second series 1829; Whychcotte of St. John’s, 2 vols. 1833; The life-book of a labourer, By A Working Clergyman 1839, 2 ed. 1850; The bishop’s daughter 1842, 2 ed. 1853; Experiences of a gaol chaplain, 3 vols. 1847; The closing scene, or Christianity and infidelity contrasted in the last hours of remarkable persons 1848, second series 1848; The life of Edward, duke of Kent 1850, 2 ed. 1850. d. Exning vicarage 23 Nov. 1883. Notes and Queries xii 465 (1885), i 31, 115, 156 (1886).

NEALE, John Mason (only son of rev. Cornelius Neale, fellow of St. John’s coll. Camb., d. 1823). b. 40 Lamb’s Conduit st. Holborn, London 24 Jany. 1818; ed. Blackheath sch. and at Sherborne; won a scholarship at Trin. coll. Camb. 12 April 1839; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1845; D.D. Trin. coll. Hartford, U.S. of America 1861; Seatonian prizeman 1845 and 9 times afterwards; a founder of the Cambridge Camden society 1839; fellow and tutor of Downing coll. 1840; declined the provostship of St. Ninians, Perth 1850; warden of Sackville college, East Grinstead 1846 to death; rebuilt Sackville college chapel 1850, adding ornaments which were denounced by Dr. Gilbert, bishop of Chichester, who inhibited him from officiating in his diocese, a suit was instituted and Neale was defeated, the inhibition was removed Nov. 1863; founded St. Margaret’s sisterhood at Rotherfield 1854, transferred to East Grinstead 1856; was unequalled as a translator of ancient Latin and Greek hymns, knew 20 languages; wrote one-eighth of the hymns in Hymns ancient and modern, including Jerusalem the golden; leader writer on Morning Chronicle 1851–3; edited and translated The rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix on the celestial country 1859, 3 ed. 1866; A commentary on the psalms 1860, 3 ed. 1874; The history of pews 1841, 3 ed. 1843; Agnes de Tracy, a tale 1843; English history for children 1845, 3 ed. 1849; Herbert Tresham, a tale 1843, 2 ed. 1870; A history of the holy eastern church, 5 vols. 1850–73; Handbook for travellers in Portugal 1855, 4 ed. 1887; Hymns of the eastern church 1862, 5 ed. 1888; Selections from the writings of J. M. N. 1864, 2 ed. 1887; Hymns chiefly mediæval 1865, 2 ed. 1867; Sermons preached in Sackville college, 4 vols. 1871–82; and upwards of 100 other works 1841–66; composer of An Eastern carol 1849. d. Sackville college, East Grinstead 6 Aug. 1866. bur. East Grinstead 10 Aug. St. Margaret’s Mag. 20 July 1887 pp. 12–20, 21 Jany. 1888 pp. 54–69, 20 July pp. 123–51; Huntington’s Random recollections (1893) 198–223; Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 785–90; G.M. ii 407–10 (1866); Notes and Queries, 6th series ii 102–4, 193 (1880).

NEALE, William Henry (3 son of rev. James Neale, P.C. of Allerton Mauleverer, near York, d. 1828). bapt. at Little Hampton, Sussex 12 May 1785; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Pemb. coll. Camb., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; master of Beverley gr. sch. 8 Feb. 1808, resigned Dec. 1815; chaplain of the county bridewell in Gosport, Hampshire Nov. 1823–50; F.S.A. 5 March 1840; a poor brother of the Charterhouse 1853 to death; author of The Mohammedan system of theology, or a survey of Islamism contrasted with Christianity 1828; The different dispensations of the true religion considered 1843; The prophecies of Hosea translated, 2 ed. 1850. d. the Charterhouse, London 20 Jany. 1855.

NEALE, William Johnstoun Nelson (brother of Erskine Neale 1804–83). b. 1812; entered navy 1824, served at Navarino 1827; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1836; recorder of Walsall Aug. 1859 to death; high bailiff of Birmingham county court many years; author of Cavendish or the patrician at sea, 3 vols. 1831 anon., 4 ed. 1861; The port admiral, a tale of the war, 3 vols. 1833, 2 ed. 1861; The Lauread, a literary, political, and naval satire, Book the first 1833; Will-Watch, from the autobiography of a British officer, 3 vols. 1834; The Priors of Prague, 3 vols. 1836; The naval surgeon, 3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1861; Paul Periwinkle, or the pressgang 1841; The scapegrace at sea, or soldiers afloat and sailors ashore, 3 vols. 2 ed. 1863; History of the mutiny at Spithead and the Nore 1842 anon; author with Basil Montagu of the law of parliamentary elections, 2 parts 1839–40. d. Cheltenham 27 March 1893. Reynold’s Newspaper 9 April 1893 p. 6.

NEAT, William. b. Castle st. Bristol 11 March 1791; was nearly 6 feet in height and weighed when trained 13 stone 7 pounds; fought Tom Oliver for 100 guineas a side at Rickmansworth 10 July 1818, when Neat won after 28 rounds lasting 91 minutes; took a benefit at the Fives Court, London 23 Feb. 1819; was to have fought Tom Spring 6 Oct. 1819, but having broken his arm the match was off; fought Thomas Hickman, the Gasman, for 100 guineas a side at Hungerford Downs, near Newbury 11 Dec. 1821, when Neat won in 18 rounds lasting 23½ minutes, 25,000 persons were present and £150,000 changed owners after the battle; fought Tom Spring near Andover 20 May 1823 for £200 a side, when Spring won in 8 rounds lasting 37 minutes; a butcher in Bristol to his death. d. Bristol 23 March 1858. The Fancy, By An Operator i 441–6 (1826) portrait; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii 15–22, 104–17 (1880) portrait.

NEATE, Charles. b. London 28 March 1784; appeared as pianist at Covent Garden 1800; member of Royal society of Musicians 2 March 1806; an original member of Philharmonic Society 1813, became a director, performed often at the concerts; intimate with Beethoven at Vienna 1815; a pianist and teacher of music in London 1818; introduced to English audiences Beethoven’s pianoforte concertos in C minor and E flat, and Weber’s Concertstück; retired about 1856; author of An essay on fingering, with observations on pianoforte playing 1855; composer of A grand sonata 1808; Three select movements for two pianos 1823; Fantasia for the piano and violoncello 1825; Forty seven preludes for the piano 1827; A hundred impromptus or short preludes 1830; Victoria’s sceptre o’er the waves, a song 1848. d. Brighton 30 March 1877, probably the oldest musician in Europe. Concordia (1875) 395, 428.

NEATE, Charles (5 child of Thomas Neate, R. of Alvescot, Oxfordshire). b. Adstock, Bucks 13 June 1806; ed. at Collège Bourbon in Paris and Lincoln coll. Oxf., scholar 1826–8; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; fellow of Oriel coll. 1828 to death; lecturer on law and history 1856; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1832; offering frequent suggestions when engaged in a case as junior to sir Richard Bethell, the latter said loudly Hold your tongue you fool, on the rising of the court he assaulted Bethell and ruined his own chance at the bar; secretary to sir F. T. Baring, chancellor of the exchequer 1839–41; Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 1857–62; M.P. city of Oxford March 1857, but unseated for bribery June 1857; M.P. Oxford 1863–8; clerk of the market, Oxford to death; resided at Oxford 1868 to death; author of the following pamphlets and lectures, Considerations on the punishment of death; Arguments against reform 1831 anon.; Dialogue des morts, Guizot et Louis Blanc 1848 anon.; Two lectures on the currency 1859; Two lectures on the history and conditions of landed property 1860; Two lectures on trades unions 1862; Specimens of composition in prose and verse 1874. d. Norham manor, Northumberland 7 Feb. 1879. bur. at Alvescot, Oxf. 13 Feb. portrait in common room of Oriel coll. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1891) 212, 484; T. Mozley’s Reminiscenses of Oriel college ii 99–105 (1882); T. A. Nash’s Life of lord Westbury i 76 (1888).

NEAVE, Sir Richard Digby, 3 Baronet (eld. son of sir Thomas Neave, 2 Bart. 1761–1848). b. 9 Dec. 1793; ed. at St. Mary’s Hall, Oxf., B.A. 1815; m. 7 Aug. 1828 Mary Arundell, youngest dau. of James Everard, 9th lord Arundell of Wardour, she d. 30 Aug. 1849; succeeded 11 April 1848; F.R.G.S.; author of Four days in Connemara 1852. d. 10 Eccleston sq. London 10 March 1868. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria (1845) 51–54. portrait of Lady Neave.

NEAVES, Charles, Lord Neaves (son of Charles Neave of Forfar, solicitor, who changed his name to Neaves). b. Edinburgh 14 Oct. 1800; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ., LL.D. 1860; advocate 1822; advocate depute 1841–5; sheriff of Orkney and Shetland March 1845–52; solicitor general for Scotland 24 May 1852 to Jany. 1853; judge of court of session, with courtesy title of lord Neaves 13 May 1854; a lord of justiciary 7 May 1858 to death; lord rector of St. Andrew’s univ. 1872 and 1873; presided at the Leyden centenary celebration 1875; contributed prose and verse to Blackwood’s Mag. 40 years; author of Songs and verses, social and scientific, By An old contributor to Maga. 1868, 3 ed. 1875; On fiction as a means of popular teaching 1869; The Greek anthology 1870; A glance at some of the principles of comparative philology 1870; A lecturer on cheap and accessible pleasures 1872. d. 7 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1876. J. Campbell Smith’s Writings by the way (1885) 468–81; I.L.N. lxx 4 (1877) portrait.

NECKER DE SAUSSURE, Louis Albert (son of James Necker, professor of botany). b. Geneva 10 April 1786; educ. Edinb. univ. 1806; professor of geology and mineralogy at Geneva 1810, honorary professor 1817; had extensive natural history collections; came to Edinburgh for his health 1831 etc.; F.R.S. Edinb.; resided at Portree, Isle of Skye from 1839 to death; author of Voyage en Écosse et aux isles Hébrides, Geneva, 3 vols. 1821; Le règne minéral, Paris, 2 vols. 1835; Études géologiques dans les Alpes, Paris 1841, volume one only. d. Portree 20 Nov. 1861. Proc. Royal soc. of Edinb. v 53–76 (1866).

NEEBE, Rev. Frederick., D.D.; author of German grammar and exercises 1847; Children’s mirror, 100 stories in German and English 1873. d. 8 Bath st. Brighton 11 May 1880.

NEED, Sir Arthur (son of lieut. general Samuel Need of Fountain Dale, Notts., d. 1839). b. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury; cornet 16 lancers 13 Oct. 1839, lieut. 17 June 1842; lieut. 14 hussars 30 March 1847, captain 1 June 1854, placed on h.p. 2 Dec. 1862; lieut. col. in the army 14 Jany. 1862; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9, in Persian expedition 1857, and with Central India field force 1857–8; lieutenant of Her Majesty’s body guard of yeomen of the guard 11 Feb. 1870 to death; knighted at Buckingham palace 25 Feb. 1881. d. Blidworth, Notts. 28 July 1888.

NEEDHAM, Edward Moore. b. Birmingham 1819; a booking clerk to the Midland railway co. 1840; superintendent Midland railway co. 1860 to death. d. Duffield, near Derby 23 Jany. 1890.

NEEDHAM, Francis Jack (eld. child of 2 earl of Kilmorey 1787–1880). b. 2 Feb. 1815; styled viscount Newry and Morne 30 Nov. 1832 to death; M.P. Newry 8 July 1841 to death. d. 10 Grosvenor crescent, Eaton sq. London 6 May 1851. bur. Shavington hall chapel, near Market Drayton.

NEELD, Sir John, 1 Baronet (brother of the succeeding). b. Fulham, Middlesex 20 July 1805; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; M.P. Cricklade 1835–59; contested Cricklade 30 April 1859; M.P. Chippenham 1865–8; gentleman of the privy chamber to the queen 1843–57; cr. a baronet 20 April 1859; sheriff of Wiltshire 1872. d. Grittleton house, Chippenham 3 Sept. 1891.

NEELD, Joseph (eld. child of Joseph Neeld of Fulham, Middlesex 1754–1828). b. 13 Jany. 1789; ed. at Harrow, a governor of the school 1828–36, founded in 1840 two scholarships of £30 a year for 3 years, and in 1851 gave a gold medal to be given annually to the best proficient in mathematics; M.P. Gatton 8 March to 24 July 1830; M.P. Chippenham 30 July 1830 to death; came into possession of about £900,000 on death of his maternal great uncle, Phillip Rundell of Ludgate st. London, goldsmith, who d. 17 Feb. 1827 aged 81; purchased estate of Grittleton, Wilts from colonel Houlton 1828; F.L.S. 1829; F.S.A. 31 Jany. 1828; M.R.G.S. d. 6 Grosvenor sq. London 24 March 1856. bur. 31 March under north aisle of church of Leigh Delamere, near Chippenham, which was rebuilt at his sole expense 1846. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 243–48 (1854).

NEGRETTI, Enrico Angelo Ludovico. b. Como, Italy 1817; came to London 1829; glass-blower and thermometer maker at 19 Leather lane, Holborn 1843, removed to 9 Hatton garden 1848; partner with J. W. Zambra 1850; they gained many prize medals at Great exhibition of 1851; meteorological instrument makers to the queen, Greenwich observatory and British meteorological society 1851; took out a patent for thermometers and barometers 1852; the firm became known all over the world; they removed to 107 Holborn hill 1858, and to Holborn circus 1869; friend of Garibaldi, who was his guest in 1854; chief of the Italian Garibaldi reception committee in London 1864; naturalised as a British subject 11 April 1862; obtained the respite of Serafino Pelizzioni, who was sentenced to be executed 22 Feb. 1865 for murdering Michael Harrington Dec. 1864, Pelizzioni was liberated March 1865, the murder having been really committed by Gregorio Mogni; author of A treatise on meteorological instruments 1864. d. Cricklewood house, Cricklewood, Middlesex 24 Sept. 1879. M. Williams’s Leaves of a life i 113–24 (1890).

NEILD, John Camden (younger son of James Neild, silversmith and philanthropist 1744–1814). b. 4 St. James’s st. London 3 May 1780; ed. at Eton 1793–7, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1808; succeeded to a fortune of £250,000 on his father’s death 1814; became a confirmed miser; attempted to cut his throat at North Marston, Bucks. 1827; left by his will nearly the whole of his property, estimated at half-a-million, to queen Victoria for her sole use and benefit, two caveats were entered against the will but were subsequently withdrawn. d. 5 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 30 Aug. 1852. bur. in chancel of North Marston church 9 Sept., the queen restored this chancel in 1855 and erected a stained-glass window and reredos to Neild’s memory. H. Tattam’s Short memoir of J. C. Neild (1852); Timbs’s English eccentrics (1875) 99–103; Chambers’s Book of days ii 285–8 (1864); G.M. xxxviii 429–31, 492 (1852), xxxix 570 (1853); I.L.N. xxi 222, 350 (1852); xxvii 379, 380 (1855).

NEILL, James George Smith (eld. son of colonel Wm. Smith Neill of Burnweill, Ayrshire 1784–1850). b. near Ayr 27 May 1810; ed. at Ayr and Glasgow univ.; ensign 1 Madras European regiment 5 Dec. 1826, adjutant 7 March 1834, major 25 March 1850; deputy assistant A.G. in the Ceded districts 23 March 1841–50; deputy assistant to Madras troops in the Burmese war 1852–3; second in command of Anglo-Turkish contingent in the Russian war 1855–6, went to Constantinople April 1855; commanded his regiment 28 April 1857 to death; brigadier general in command of the Haidarabad contingent June 1857 to death; was gazetted A.D.C. to the queen, with rank of colonel in the army 16 Oct. 1857; commanded at Cawnpore July 1857; commanded the right wing in the advance to Lucknow 19 Sept. shot dead outside Lucknow 25 Sept. 1857. bur. Lucknow 26 Sept., colossal statue by Noble erected in Wellington sq. Ayr. J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 321–8; J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers ii 353–416 (1867); E. H. Nolan’s British empire in India ii 724 (1860) portrait; R. M. Martin’s Indian empire ii 292 et seq. (1860) view of his death; W. Forbes-Mitchell’s Reminiscenses of the great mutiny (1893) appendix A; I.L.N. xxxi 577, 578 (1858) portrait.

Note.—He wrote the history of his regiment under the title of Historical record of the Madras European regiment 1843. His widow Isabella Neill was raised 26 Nov. 1857 to the same rank as if her husband had survived to be created K.C.B., for which honour he was named in the London Gazette Nov. 1857, she was granted a pension of £500 a year by the East India Co. 1857 and d. 1875. His fourth son Andrew Harry Spencer Neill b. 30 Aug. 1844, ensign Madras infantry 20 Aug. 1861, commanded second regiment of Central India horse 5 Nov. 1880 to death, major Bengal staff corps 20 Aug. 1881 to death, was shot dead on parade by an insane trooper of his regiment 14 March 1887 at Agar, Central India.

NEILL, Patrick. b. Edinburgh 25 Oct. 1776; head of the large printing firm of Neill and Co.; secretary of the Wernerian natural history society 1808; secretary of the Caledonian horticultural society 1809–49; laid out the West Princes st. gardens, Edinb. 1820; the rosaceous genus Neillia is called after him; F.L.S. 1813; F.R.S. Edinb.; LL.D. Edinb. univ.; author of A Tour through some of the islands of Orkney and Shetland 1806; An account of the basalts of Saxony, from the French of J. F. D’Aubuisson 1814; and of the article Gardening in the 7th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which was published under title of The fruit, flower, and kitchen garden 1840, 5 ed. 1854. d. Canonmills cottage, near Edinburgh 3 Sept. 1851. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii 191–2 (1855); Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 115 portrait.

NEILL, Robert (son of John Neill, captain). b. Irvine, Ayrshire 1822; ed. at Dr. Browne’s school, Greenock, and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1846; partner with his uncle James Dunlop 1846–9, when the latter died; practised by himself 1849–56, and with his brother Stewart Neill 1856 to death; provost of Greenock 1871–2; published Forms of proceedings in maritime causes before the sheriff court in Scotland 1878. d. Balgray, Greenock 18 March 1881. Law Times lxx 430 (1881).

NEILL, Thomas, the assumed name of Thomas Neill Cream. b. Glasgow about 19 May 1850; taken to Quebec when a child; received a medical education at M’Gill college, Montreal 1872–6, when he took a degree; attended lectures at St. Thomas’s hospital, London; took two degrees at univ. of Edinb.; practised as physician in Ontario and at Chicago 1880–1 under his real name; arrived at Liverpool 1 Oct. 1891; lodged at 103 Lambeth palace road, London, until 6 Jany. 1892, and again in April 1892; poisoned by strychnine a woman called Matilda Clover at 27 Lambeth road, London 21 Oct. 1891; probably poisoned also Alice Marsh, Ellen Donworth, and Emma Shrivell; tried at central criminal court for murder of Matilda Clover 17–20 Oct. 1892, found guilty and sentenced to death 20 Oct. hanged by Billington at Newgate prison, London 9 a.m. 15 Nov. 1892. Central criminal court sessions paper, Minutes of evidence cxvi 1417–60 (1892); Times 16 Nov. 1892 p. 11; Daily Graphic 18 Oct. 1892 p. 1 portrait; Spectator 29 Oct. 1892 p. 590.

NEILSON, James Beaumont (younger son of Walter Neilson, engine-wright at the Govan coal works, near Glasgow). b. Shettleston, near Glasgow 22 June 1792; engine-wright of a colliery at Irvine 1814–7; foreman of the Glasgow gas works 1817, manager and engineer of the works 1822–47; invented the swallow-tail burner, which came into general use; invented the hot blast in the manufacture of iron, which is now in general use; patented the invention with his partners, Charles Macintosh and John Wilson 1 Oct. 1828; established the validity of the patent after a ten days’ trial 1843; this invention made available the black band ironstone, formerly useless; M.I.C.E. 1832; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1846. d. Queenshill, near Kirkcudbright 18 Jany. 1865. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men ii 245–8 (1886) portrait; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx 451–3 (1870); S. Smiles’s Industrial biography (1879) 149–61; Chambers’s Biog. Dict. of eminent Scotsmen iii 215–6 (1870); Report of the case Neilson v. Harford in the court of exchequer, Edinb. (1841); Report of case of Neilson v. Baird (1843).

NEILSON, John Finlay. Parliamentary reporter for The Times nearly 40 years. d. 61 Bessborough st. London 27 July 1881 aged 72.

NEILSON, Lilian Adelaide, stage name of Elizabeth Ann Brown (dau. of Ann Brown, an actress, who became Mrs. Bland). b. 35 St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 3 March 1848; lived at Skipton 1848–50; worked as a mill hand at Guiseley; a nurse girl in the family of Mr. John Padgett at Hawkhill house, Guiseley 1859–61; a barmaid, under name of Lizzie Ann Bland, at a public house near the Haymarket, London; a ballet girl; befriended by admiral Henry Carr Glyn; first appeared on the stage at Margate 1865 as Juliet, under name of Lilian Adelaide Lizon, which she afterwards changed to Neilson; pupil of John Ryder the actor; first appeared in London at Royalty theatre 17 July 1865 as Juliet; the original Gabrielle de Savigny in Watts Phillip’s Huguenot Captain at Princess’s 2 July 1866; played Victorine in the drama Victorine at Adelphi 14 Nov. 1866, the original Nellie Armroyd in W. Phillips’s Lost in London at Adelphi 16 March 1867; played Rosalind at T.R. Edinburgh 25 Sept. 1868; played at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Birmingham in Millicent, an adaption of Miss Braddon’s Captain of the Vulture 2 Nov. 1868; the original Lilian in W. Marston’s Life for life at Lyceum 6 March 1869, Madame Vidal in Oxenford and Wigan’s A life chase 11 Oct. 1869, Mary Belton in Uncle Dick’s Darling 13 Dec. 1869, both at Gaiety; began a series of dramatic readings at St. James’s hall 26 May 1870; appeared as Amy Robsart in A. Halliday’s Kenilworth at Drury Lane 24 Sept. 1870, and as Rebecca in his Ivanhoe 23 Sept. 1871; played Juliet and Pauline at Queen’s Sept. 1872; at Booth’s theatre, New York acted Juliet 18 Nov. 1872, reappeared in America 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, and 1880; the first Anne Boleyn in Tom Taylor’s Anne Boleyn at Haymarket 5 Feb. 1876, played there again in 1878; acted Isabel of Bavaria in The crimson cross at Adelphi 27 Feb. 1879; arrived in Paris from London, on her way to Trouville 11 Aug. 1880. d. at the Nouveau chalet du rond royal, Bois de Boulogne, Paris 15 Aug. 1880, body removed to the Morgue same day. bur. West Brompton cemetery, London 20 Aug. L. C. Holloway’s Adelaide Neilson, New York (1885) 8 portraits and view of tomb; M. A. de Leine’s L. A. Neilson, a memorial sketch (1881) portrait; W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1890) 94–8, 2 portraits; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 271–5; W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii 219–50 (1888); W. Winter’s Shadows of the stage (1892) 47–62, Second series (1892) pp. 268–76; The Theatre ii 155 (1879) portrait, ii 122, 183–4, 247–9, 253, 255, 271–3 (1880) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i 289, 294 (1874) portrait, viii 569, 575 (1878) portrait, and 21 Aug. 1880 p. 558, portrait; Saturday programme 23 Sept. 1876 portrait, 14 Oct. pp. 6–7, and 29 Nov. p. 4; Touchstone 27 April 1878 pp. 3–4 portrait; Lippincott’s Mag. xxx 623; Era Almanac (1893) 17 portrait.

Note.—She was m. on 30 Nov. 1864 at St. Mary, Newington, Surrey, as “Lilian Adelaide Lizon, dau. of Pera Lizon, gentleman,” to Philip Henry Lee, son of P. H. Lee, rector of Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire. This marriage was annulled, at her instance, by the supreme court in New York 1877, husband and wife having been previously naturalised as citizens of U.S. America. P. H. Lee m. (2) 21 Oct. 1880 Charlotte Ann Rowe, dau. of Samuel Lillicrap Trevanion Penrose, R.N. and widow of Charles Loftus Thorpe of Sonning, Berkshire.

Miss Neilson who had been unwell from 1876 ruptured a varicose vein in the left fallopian tube, and died from internal hæmorrhage. The Lancet ii 348, 484 (1880).

Her will, dated 25 Sept. 1879, received probate 30 Aug. 1880, being sworn under £25,000, exclusive of the Chicago property, George Henry Lewis sole executor. She left £3,000 to be invested for her mother Ann Bland, half of it at A. Bland’s death to go to her three sisters, the other half to Thomas Brown. To Joseph Knight, theatrical critic £1,000. To Edward Compton, actor £1,000, and the residue to her old and steadfast friend vice admiral Henry Carr Glynn, who d. 16 Feb. 1884. This money has been used as a fund for the relief of actors in distress.

NEILSON, Peter (youngest son of George Neilson, calenderer). b. Glasgow 24 Sept. 1795; ed. at Glasgow high sch. and univ.; with his father an exporter of cambric and cotton goods to America; was in America on business 1822–8; settled at Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire 1841; proposed improvements in the life buoy 1846; suggested iron-plated ships to lord John Russell 8 Jany. 1848, the Warrior and Black Prince were built according to his plan; author of Recollections of six years residence in the United States of America, Glasgow 1830; The millenium, a poem 1834; The life and adventures of Zamba, an African king, corrected by P. Neilson 1847; Remarks on ironbuilt ships of war and iron-plated ships of war 1861. d. Kirkintilloch 3 May 1861. interred in burying-ground of Glasgow cathedral. Poems of Peter Neilson, edited with memoir by Dr. Whitelaw (1870).

NEILSON, Walter (son of John Neilson). b. Glasgow March 1807; partner in his father’s millwright and engineering business, Oakbank foundry, Glasgow 1828; built the Fairy Queen, one of the earliest iron ships, which had also the first oscillating marine engines 1831; partner in Wilson’s and co.’s blast furnace iron works, Summerlee, Coatbridge 1836, works became the Summerlee iron co. 1870; adapted the Addenbrook system of collecting the combustible gas and using it in heating the air of the blast, and in getting up steam; owner of coal and ironstone mines; produced sulphate of ammonia from the gasses emitted from the blast furnaces; senior partner in Mossend iron and steel co. on death of his brother, William Neilson; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. d. 18 Aug. 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxx 347–9 (1885).

NEILSON, Walter Montgomery (son of James Beaumont Neilson 1792–1865). b. Glasgow 1819; partner with Mr. Kerr in the Hyde Park locomotive works, Glasgow, for making land and marine engines; commenced making locomotives 1842; supplied 1,200 locomotives to India 1857 etc.; succeeded to Queenshill estate, Kirkcudbrightshire 1865; colonel of 6 Lanarkshire volunteer corps 9 Sept. 1874 to 2 July 1887; grand master of freemasons Glasgow province; owner of Monte Picini estate, near Florence, where he cultivated vines; M.I.C.E. 3 April 1860. d. Queenshill 8 July 1889. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. c 400–1 (1890).

NEISH, Thomas. b. 1789; insurance broker in the Cowgate, Dundee 1807; partner with David Smart to 1826, when they failed; a dealer in flax and other Russian produce to his death; one of the first in Dundee to import jute, which he sold for upwards of 30 years after its introduction; vice consul for Russia in Dundee many years; became tacks-man of the shore dues in 1817 at a rental of £5605; took a prominent part in proceedings of the Dundee chamber of commerce. d. 25 April 1864. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 235–6.

NELIGAN, John Moore (son of a physician). b. Clonmel, co. Tipperary June 1815; M.D. Edinb. 1836; M.D. Dublin 1853; M.R.C.P. 1846, F.R.C.P. 1853; practised at Clonmel, moved to Cork; physician in Dublin 1840 to death; physician to Jervis st. hospital 1841; lectured on materia medica 1841–6, and on medicine 1846–7 in the school, Peter st. Dublin; edited the Dublin quarterly journal of medical science 1849–61; author of Medicines, their uses and mode of administration 1844, 7 ed. 1867; The diagnosis and treatment of eruptive diseases of the scalp 1848; A practical treatise on diseases of the skin 1852, 2 ed. 1866; Atlas of cutaneous diseases 1855; edited R. J. Graves’s Clinical lectures on the practice of medicine, 2 ed. 1848, 4 ed. 1884. d. Clonmel house, near Blackrock, Dublin 24 July 1863. C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland (1886) 528, 593, 637, 692; Dublin quarterly journal of medical science Aug. 1863 pp. 255–8.

NELSON, Sir Alexander Abercromby. b. Walmer, Kent 30 June 1814; ensign 40 foot 6 March 1835, captain 31 July 1846 to 31 Dec. 1847; served at Kandahar and in Afghanistan 1841–2, and at battle of Haidarabad 24 March 1843; D.A.A.G. at Portsmouth 1855–6; brigade major at Portsmouth 1856–7; D.A.G. in Jamaica 9 Dec. 1864 to 27 Oct. 1866, with lieut. Herbert Brand tried George William Gordon by court martial in Jamaica for high treason and caused him to be hanged 23 Oct. 1865, Nelson and Brand were tried for murder at central criminal court London 10 April 1867 and acquitted, but lord chief justice Cockburn made strong remarks as to the evidence on which Gordon had been sentenced to death; A.A.G. Cork district 1867; A.A.G. Gibraltar 1873–6; lieut. col. in the army 9 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 June 1877; lieutenant governor of Guernsey 1 May 1879–83; M.G. 29 April 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 10 Oct. 1883; C.B. 29 May 1875, K.C.B. 30 May 1891. d. Walmer, Bath road, Reading 28 Sept. 1893. Charge of lord chief justice Cockburn in the case of The queen against Nelson and Brand (1867); Irving’s Annals (1876) 764, 766, 771.

NELSON, Alfred (son of Mr. Nelson, actor). b. about 1830; first appeared at theatre royal, Bristol, under Mrs. Macready’s management; appeared as Horatio in Hamlet, Haymarket theatre, London 29 July 1865; with his father and other relatives arranged a musical and dramatic entertainment, with which they travelled in Australia, America, and Canada; played at Liverpool; played Jack Scroggins in Burnand’s Morden Grange at Queen’s theatre 4 Dec. 1869; acted in Tom Taylor’s Twixt Axe and Crown at Queen’s 22 Jany. 1870 for 9 months, and in My wife’s dentist 300 nights; played Andrew Duvernay in Sir Charles Young’s Montcalm 28 Sept. 1872 at Queen’s theatre; played Duke of Norfolk in W. S. Raleigh’s Queen and cardinal at Haymarket 26 Oct. 1881, the Duke in A Midsummer night’s dream at Drury Lane 13 March 1883, and Mr. Gibson in The ticket of leave man at Her Majesty’s 14 April 1884; teacher of elocution at Guildhall school of music, London 1880 to death; organised successful Students’ recitals. d. 40 Lordship lane, Tottenham 5 March 1894. bur. Old West Norwood cemet. 8 March. E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii 375, 417, 526, 549, 560 (1891).

NELSON, Ann. Proprietor or had an interest in the greater number of coaches running into Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk; kept the Bull inn 25 Aldgate high st. London 1824 to death. d. 1853. G.M. Sept. 1871 p. 497.

NELSON, Arthur Marsh. b. 1811; played leading parts in the legitimate drama in the provincial and minor theatres; became a talking clown; a clever musician and great favourite; made his last appearance in London at Alhambra palace. d. Bromley 28 July 1860.

NELSON, Charles Gudgeon. Entered R.N. 1845; lieut. 28 Feb. 1854; served in Baltic during Russian war 1854–6; prepared prince Alfred, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, for the naval profession 1858, and for his lieutenants examination 1863; commander 24 Nov. 1862; one of her majesty’s gentlemen ushers 27 Oct. 1862 to death; commanded the President, 31 guns, on the home station 1869–70; retired as captain 1 Oct. 1873; settled at Godalming, became well known in horticultural circles; his brother, the rev. J. Nelson, bequeathed to him a unique collection of bulbs, which he much increased. d. Holme lodge, Godalming, Surrey 20 April 1892.

NELSON, Horatia (dau. of Horatio, lord Nelson 1758–1805, by Emma, lady Hamilton 1761–1815). b. England 30 Jany. 1801; lord Nelson when dying said ‘Remember I leave lady Hamilton and my daughter Horatia as a legacy to my country’; lord Nelson left her the interest of £4,000 by his will 1805; resided with her mother at Merton, Surrey to 1808; was with her mother when she died at Calais 15 Jany. 1815; lived with lord Nelson’s sister 1815–22; m. 19 Feb. 1822 at Burnham, Norfolk, rev. Philip Ward, vicar of Tenterden, Kent, d. 16 Jany. 1859; known as Mrs. Horatia Nelson Ward. d. Beaufort villa, Woodrising, Pinner 6 March 1881.

NELSON, Hugh (son of Robert Nelson of Larne). b. in Ulster 1830; made a fortune in the lumber trade in British Columbia; member for city of New Westminster in Canadian parliament; a member of the dominion senate; lieutenant governor of British Columbia 8 Feb. 1887–91; took part in Canadian International fisheries’ exhibition 1883. d. at residence of his sister, Mrs. James Murray 6 Cedars road, Clapham, Surrey, 3 March 1893.

NELSON, Isaac. Minister of Presbyterian church, Donegall st. Belfast to 1880; contested Leitrim April 1880; M.P. co. Mayo 24 May 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885. d. Sugarfield, Belfast 8 March 1888.

NELSON, John (son of Ann Nelson, d. 1853). b. about 1794; led the opposition against the Eastern counties railway having a terminus in Whitechapel, which was successful, the company being driven to Shoreditch; started the Wellington omnibuses 1856, which caused the ruin of the London conveyance company; kept the Bull inn, Aldgate 1853 to death. d. 24 July 1868. G.M. Sept. 1871 p. 498.

Note.—A few months after his death, the celebrated old ‘Bull Inn,’ which had belonged to the Nelson family 150 years, was dismantled and sold by auction piecemeal, with its rare old stock of wines and quaint old-fashioned silver plate.

NELSON, Park (son of John William Nelson, solicitor). b. 10 June 1804; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1811 etc.; articled to his father; solicitor in partnership with George Nelson 1826–9; partner with William Benfield Nelson 1835, they took in Joseph John Morgan 1873, firm being Park, Nelson, and Morgan, 11 Essex st. Strand, London; member of council of Incorporated law society 28 Nov. 1861 to death, vice pres. 1871–2, pres. 1872–3; clerk to the Skinners’ co. d. Parson’s Green, Fulham, Middlesex 19 Dec. 1876. Solicitor’s Journal xxi 167 (1876).

NELSON, Richard John (son of general Richard Nelson). b. Crabtree, near Plymouth 3 May 1803; 2 lieut. R.E. 6 Jany. 1826, lieut. col. 20 June 1854, colonel 17 May 1860; commanded the R.E. at Halifax, Nova Scotia Sept 1858, returned to England Aug. 1861; retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 5 Feb. 1864; edited with G. G. Lewis and sir H. Jones The Aide-memoire of military science 1846; author of Geology of the Bermudas; Memoranda of the Bahama tornado, by W. J. Woodcock, part 2 by R. J. Nelson 1850; Lockspeise, or inducement to the study of the German language 1855; and of many papers in the Professional papers of the corps of royal engineers. d. 12 Penlee villas, Stoke, Devonport 17 July 1877.

NELSON, Robert Henry (son of Henry Nelson of Leeds). Lieut. in Baker’s horse with Wood’s flying column during Zulu war; commanded a mounted native corps under the resident magistrate of British Basutoland; one of H. M. Stanley’s officers in Emin Pasha relief expedition 1888; in service of Imperial British East Africa co.; in charge of the district of Kikuyu, midway between the coast and the Victoria Nyanza to death. d. of dysentery at Dagoreti, East Africa 26 Dec. 1892. I.L.N. 28 Jany. 1893 p. 106 portrait; Daily Graphic 21 Jany. 1893 p. 8 portrait.

NELSON, Sydney (son of Solomon Nelson). b. London 1 Jany. 1800; pupil of sir George Smart; teacher of music in London; partner with Charles Jeffreys as music sellers at 21a Soho sq. 1840–3; associate of Philharmonic society 1843; music publisher at 61 Greek st. Soho 1843–4, at 28 New Bond st. 1844–7; arranged a musical and dramatic entertainment with members of his family and went on tour in North America, Canada, and Australia; his burletta, The Grenadier, was produced at the Olympic about 1835; The Cadi’s daughters performed at Macready’s farewell benefit at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851; his grand opera Ulrica was rehearsed at Princess’s but never produced; composer of The pilot, a song 1835; The hero of a hundred fights, a song 1837; All hail my native shore, recitative and air 1840; The better land 1840; The maid of Athens, a song 1840; The men of merry England 1850; Six vocal duets 1852; Vocal gems of foreign operas 1852; The vocalist’s daily practice 1852; Six vocal trios 1852; Mary of Argyle, a song 1860; England’s volunteers, a song 1862; composer of about 800 pieces 1826–62. d. London 7 April 1862. bur. West Ham cemet.

NELSON, Thomas. b. 1780; presbyterian minister 1810; presented to Little Dunkeld, but his settlement refused for his want of knowledge of Gaelic 26 Oct. 1824; appointed minister of Muckhart, but appointment not confirmed 1825; minister of Auchtergaven 21 July 1831 to death; author of A sermon on the return of peace 1814; A pronouncing geographical vocabulary 1821; Historical account of the visit of George iv 1822; Life of William Ritchie 1830. d. Auchtergaven 27 March 1852. H. Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ, vol. 2, part ii 791 (1859).

NELSON, Thomas (son of a farmer). b. Throsk near Stirling 1780; an assistant to a publisher in London 1800; a canvasser for subscribers to Henry’s Bible, 6 volumes folio, brought out in shilling parts; a second hand bookseller in Edinburgh; issued Scots Worthies in parts; removed to a shop in the West Bow; published Baxter’s Saints’ rest and other works; admitted his sons, William 1835 and Thomas 1840, into partnership, when the firm became Thomas Nelson and sons; removed to Hope park 1843; published cheap theological literature, juvenile works, school books, and maps, also the Family Treasury. d. Abdenhouse, Prestonfield, Edinburgh 23 March 1861. bur. the Grange cemetery. H. Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 399–411.

NELSON, Thomas. b. Carlyle 1807; partner in Denton Holme marble works, Carlisle; builder and railway contractor, Carlisle; constructed the Silloth and Carlisle railway and dock; executed works for the North Eastern, and London and North Western railway companies; in partnership with his sons made the Cardiff dock; director of Cumberland union bank; purchased Friars Carse estate on the Nith near Dumfries, and the Hermitage in which Burns wrote some of his poems 1872; made a collection of Burns’ manuscripts and other relics. d. Friars Carse, Dumfries 19 Sept. 1890. Dumfries Courier 20 Sept. 1890 p. 2.

NELSON, Thomas (younger son of Thomas Nelson 1780–1861). b. Edinburgh 25 Dec. 1822; entered his father’s publishing business 1840; established and had charge of the London branch 1844–6; superintended the manufacturing department at Hope park, Edinburgh, the firm employed about 500 people; invented a rotary press with curved stereotype plates fixed on cylinders 1850; established an American branch 1854; initiated a series of school-books written principally by himself; published the Royal Readers 1872; edited the Children’s Paper, which had a great sale; the Nelson’s premises at Hope park were completely destroyed by fire 1878, but new premises were built at Parkside, St. Leonard’s, within a year; became a partner in firm of Bartholomew and co., map engravers, Edinburgh; author of A class atlas of ancient geography 1867; author with Thomas Davies of New atlas of the world 1859. d. St. Leonard’s, Dalkeith road, Edinburgh 20 Oct. 1892, leaving more than £1,000,000, bequeathed £50,000 for erection of a working men’s club.

NELSON, Sir Thomas James (eld. son of Thomas Nelson of Mark house, Walthamstow, Essex, d. 16 May 1883, aged 84). b. 18 Oct. 1826; ed. at City of London sch. and at college of Saxe-Coburg in Germany; solicitor in city of London 1848–62; solicitor to the city of London 18 Dec. 1862 to death; conducted the litigation respecting Epping Forest, lasting many years; knighted at Windsor castle 21 April 1880; chairman of Lower Thames valley main sewerage board, and of the Hampton Wick local board; acted as remembrancer of city of London during litigation between corporation and C. H. Robarts the remembrancer 1880–1. d. The Grove, Hampton Wick, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1885. bur. Teddington cemet. 13 Feb. Law Journal 14 Feb. 1885 p. 115; Law Times 14 Feb. 1885 p. 290.

NELSON, Walter (youngest child of John Wm. Nelson, sailmaker, Rotherhithe, and storekeeper of Deptford dockyard). b. 5 Feb. 1818; ed. at Merchant Tailors’ school 1825 etc.; copied Rymer’s transcripts in the British Museum for the record commission 1834–7; clerk in the record office 1840; one of assistant keepers of public records at Carlton Ride 1853 to death. d. 11 Margaretta terrace, Chelsea, London 2 Aug. 1862. G.M. xiii 501 (1862).

NELSON, William (brother of Thomas Nelson 1822–92). b. Edinburgh 13 Dec. 1816; entered his father’s publishing business 1835; travelled in Scotland and England, taking orders for the firm’s publications 1836; the chief agent in extending the business; spent large sums of money restoring St. Bernard’s Well on the water of Leith, the Argyle tower, St. Margaret’s chapel, and the old Scottish parliament house in Edinburgh castle, which was re-opened by Princess Louise Oct. 1892; erected a memorial cross to Alexander III, the last of the Celtic kings, at Kinghorn in Fifeshire; was presented with freedom of burgh of Kinghorn July 1887. d. Salisbury Green, Dalkeith road, Edinburgh 10 Sept. 1887. bur. in Grange cemetery. Sir Daniel Wilson’s William Nelson, a memoir with portrait; Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. xix pp. lviii–lxii; Bookseller Oct. 1887 p. 1002; D. Bremner’s Industries of Scotland (1869) 502–4.

NELSON, Wolfred (son of Wm. Nelson of the commissariat department, royal navy). b. Montreal 10 July 1792; obtained degree of M.D. Jany. 1811 and began practice at St. Denis, near Montreal; carried on a distillery and brewery at St. Denis; elected member of the assembly of Lower Canada for borough of William Henry 1827; chairman at a great meeting of delegates from six counties of Lower Canada held at St. Charles 23 Oct. 1837, a warrant was issued against him for his violent speeches, he defended himself against the troops and defeated the 23rd regiment on 23 Nov. but was ultimately captured and kept a prisoner in Montreal gaol until 1838; practised medicine at Plattsburg, New York 1838–42, at Montreal 1842 to death; member of assembly for county of Richelieu 1845; chairman of the board of health 1847; inspector of prisons 1851, chairman of board of prison inspectors 1859; contributed to Medical Gazette 1844, and to other journals. d. Montreal 17 June 1863. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 295.

NEPEAN, Charles Widekind. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 26 Nov. 1830; lieut. col. 24 Aug. 1847 to death. d. Bombay 14 May 1853.

NEPEAN, Evan (4 son of sir Evan Nepean, 1 Bart. of Loders, Dorset, d. 2 Oct. 1822). b. 20 April 1800; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; minister of Grosvenor chapel, South Audley st. London 1830 to death; R. of Heydon, Norfolk 1831–61; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 3 Aug. 1848 to death; resident canon of Westminster 29 Aug. 1860 to death, installed 19 Sept.; author of A sermon on occasion of the funeral of the duke of Wellington 1852. d. Little Cloisters, Westminster abbey 13 March 1873. bur. in Westminster abbey 18 March. I.L.N. lxii 283 (1873).

NERINCKX, John. b. Ninove, Belgium Aug. 1776; ordained R.C. priest by a French bishop in a private room 1801; honorary chaplain of church of St. Aloysius, Clarendon sq. Somers Town, London 1830 to death; founded the schools attached to the church. d. 49 Clarendon sq. London 21 Dec. 1855. Tablet 29 Dec. 1855 p. 821.

NESBIT, Alfred Anthony (son of John Collis Nesbit 1818–62). b. 1854; partner in firm of Nesbit, Lansdell and co., analytical chemists at 38 Gracechurch st. London 1876–82, in business by himself at same address 1882–5; his patent for preventing the fraudulent alteration of cheques (No. 2184 of 1880) was well received but never used; patented an improved ink for obliterating postage stamps 1883; successful in colouring white flowers by causing them to absorb aniline dyes of various shades. d. 1894.

NESBIT, Anthony (son of Jacob Nesbit, farmer of Long Benton, near Newcastle). bapt. Long Benton 3 May 1778; under-master at Preston gr. sch. 1808–9; land surveyor and teacher of mathematics at Farnley, near Leeds 1810; set up a school at Bradford about 1814; kept a school in Oxford road, Manchester about 1821–41; started a school at 38 Lower Kennington lane, London about 1841; author of A complete treatise on practical land surveying, York 1810, 12 ed. 1870; Mensuration 1816; An introduction to English parsing 1817; A treatise on practical gauging, York 1822; A treatise on practical arithmetic, Liverpool 1826, second part London 1846; An essay on education 1841. d. 38 Lower Kennington lane, London 15 March 1859. bur. Norwood cemet.

NESBIT, John Collis (son of Anthony Nesbit 1778–1859). b. Bradford, Yorkshire 12 July 1818; constructed a galvanic battery 1833; lecturer upon scientific subjects; helped to manage his father’s school in London about 1841, eventually the school was converted into a chemical and agricultural college under his sole direction; obtained a large practice as a consulting and analytical chemist; F.G.S. and F.C.S. 1845; discovered important beds of coprolites in the Ardennes 1855; presented by the Farmers’ club and others with testimonial, value £300, 7 Dec. 1857; author of Lecture on agricultural chemistry at Saxmundham 1845; On Peruvian guano, its history, composition, and fertilising qualities 1852, 5 ed. 1852, translated into German 1853; On agricultural chemistry 1856; The history and properties of natural guanos, new ed. 1860. d. at the house of a friend at Barnes 30 March 1862. Farmers Mag. May 1856 pp. 415–6, Jany. 1858 p. 6, May 1862 p. 458; Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. (1863) p. xix; I.L.N. 19 April 1862 p. 394 portrait.

NESBIT, Robert (son of Benjamin Nesbit, farmer). b. Bowsden, Durham 22 March 1803; educ. St. Andrews; tutor in family of Dr. Inverarity at Arbroath 1823–5; tutor in family of A. N. Groves at Exeter 1825; presbyterian minister 15 Dec. 1826; missionary of the Scottish missionary society at Bombay 1827–43; a student of Sanscrit, Hindustani, and Marathi; Free church minister at Bombay 1843–8, 1851 to death; revised the Marathi New Testament; author of Discourses, chiefly on doctrinal subjects, Bombay 1835, Berwick 2 ed. 1837. d. Bombay 26 July 1855. J. M. Mitchell’s Memoir of R. Nesbit (1858) portrait.

NESBITT, Alexander. b. Ireland 1817; an enthusiast respecting Gothic architecture in connection with ancient domestic buildings; contributed the articles Baptistry, Church, etc. to Smith’s Dictionary of Christian Antiquities 1875–80; with his pen and pencil aided John Henry Parker in his Domestic architecture 1851; F.S.A. 26 May 1859, contributed many important papers to the Archæologia; made molds from ivory carvings, his process and his molds formed the groundwork of the Arundel Societies’ collection of fictile ivories; formed a collection of fragments of ancient glass, now in British museum; wrote introductions to W. Chaffers’ Catalogue of the collection of glass formed by F. Slade 1871, and to A descriptive catalogue of the glass vessels in South Kensington museum 1876. d. Oldlands, near Uckfield 21 June 1886. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xi 372 (1885–7).

NESBITT, Cosby Lewis. Second lieut. 60 foot 27 March 1824, lieut. col. 26 July 1844 to death; served throughout the Caffir war 1851–3. drowned in fording the Keiskamma river, Cape of Good Hope 1 Oct. 1853.

NESBITT, Francis, stage name of Francis Nesbitt McCron. b. Manchester 1809; studied for the medical profession; acted in the English provinces and at Glasgow to 1840; arrived in Port Jackson, N.S.W. 7 Jany. 1841; played Pizarro at Victoria theatre, Sydney 1841; one of leading actors in Australia 1841 to death; toured round the colonies 1843–8; sailed for San Francisco 1848; returned to Sydney 1852. d. the hospital, Geelong, Victoria 1853. bur. in Geelong cemet., where a monument was placed over his grave by G. V. Brooke 1856.

NESBITT, William (son of John Nesbitt, wesleyan minister). b. Enniskillen 1824; on the staff of the Raphoe royal school 1841; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1844; professor of Latin Queen’s college, Galway 1849–54, and then professor of Greek 1854–64; professor of Latin at Belfast branch of Queen’s univ. 1864 to death; D.Lit of Queen’s univ. Sept. 1881. d. 24 Mount Charles, Belfast 26 Nov. 1881. The Belfast News-Letter 28 Nov. 1881 p. 5.

NESFIELD, Charles. b. 1802; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; V. of Stratton, Wilts. 1833–64; V. of Headon with Upton, Notts. 1864 to death; author of Horace’s Art of poetry, translated into English verse By A Graduate of Cambridge 1854; Reformata filii confessio 1855. d. Headon vicarage 27 Oct. 1878.

NESFIELD, William Andrews (son of Wm. Nesfield, R. of Brancepeth, Durham). b. Chester-le-Street 19 Feb. 1793; entered Winchester school as fourth scholar 1806, went to Trin. coll. Camb. 1807; a cadet at Woolwich 1809; 2 lieut. 95 foot 26 June 1812; lieut. 89 foot 1814; lieut. 76 foot 1816; lieut. 48 foot 25 March 1817; lieut. on h.p. 24 Dec. 1818 to death; served in the campaign of the Pyrenees, at St. Jean de Luz, and in Canada; associate of Society of painters in water-colours Feb. 1823, a member 9 June 1823, resigned 14 June 1852; was famous for his pictures of waterfalls; a professional landscape gardener 1852; planned the horticultural gardens at South Kensington 1860, also the grounds at Arundel castle, Trentham and Alnwick; with C. Stanfield and others illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847. d. 3 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 2 March 1881.

NESFIELD, William Eden (eld. son of the preceding). b. Bath 2 April 1835; ed. at Eton; articled to Wm. Burn of London, architect; designed Kinmel park, Denbigh, Cloverley hall, Shropshire, the hall and church at Loughton, Essex, Farnham Royal church, and lodges at Kew gardens and Hampton court; a designer of all kinds of furniture; published Specimens of mediæval architecture, chiefly selected from examples of the 12th and 13th centuries in France and Italy 1861–2; resided 6 Waverley place, St. John’s wood, London. d. Brighton 25 March 1888.

NESHAM, Christopher John Williams (son of Christopher Nesham, captain 63 foot). b. 1771; entered navy Jany. 1782; created a citizen of the French republic 17 Nov. 1789, for protecting a corn merchant named Planter from a furious mob at Vernon in Normandy Oct. 1789; presented with a sword by the assembly at Paris Jany. 1790; captain 29 April 1802; captain of the Intrepid, 64 guns July 1808 to Dec. 1809; took part in the capture of Martinique Feb. 1809; captain of the Melville, 74 guns, in the Mediterranean 1830–1; R.A. on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; replaced on the active list 17 Aug. 1840; V.A. 9 Nov. 1846; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1852. d. Exmouth, Devon 4 Nov. 1853. Paris municipalité, Assemblée, courone (sic) civique décernée à un Jeune Anglais, pour avoir suavé la vie à un Français 1790.

NETHERCLIFT, Frederick George (son of the succeeding). b. 9 Sept. 1817; lithographic artist and printer with his father 1847–53; partner with Alexander Durlacher at 18 Brewer st. Golden sq. 1853–8; carried on business at 17 Mill st. Conduit st. 1858–66, at 10 Poland st. 1866–8, at 38 Brewer st. 1868–70, at 19 Air st. 1875–7; handwriting expert at 7 Theobald’s road 1881–3, and at 10 Bedford row 1883 to death; engaged in connection with the Irish commission 1889; is depicted in Charles Reade’s novel Foul Play 1869, under name of Underclift; published A collection of one hundred autograph letters 1849; The autograph miscellany 1855; The hand-book of autographs 1858–62; and the fac-similes in R. Sims’ The autograph souvenir 1863, and L. B. Phillips’ The autographic Album 1866; composer of Bend thy sail mariner, a song 1868. d. 33 Shaftesbury road, Hornsey rise, Middlesex 26 March 1892. M. Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 265.

NETHERCLIFT, Joseph. b. Whitchurch, Hampshire 8 Sept. 1792; lithographic artist and printer at 23 King William st. Strand, London 1833–51, at 100 St. Martin’s lane 1851–8, and at 113 St. Martin’s lane 1858 to death; was in partnership with his son 1847–53; a musician, gained a prize for the best madrigal; obtained a prize for production of transfer paper used in lithography; produced many documents in fac-simile by permission of the trustees of British Museum, such as The Magna Charta and The death warrant of Charles the First 1829; author of Autograph letters of illustrious women 1838; composer of Twenty four psalms and hymns, with accompaniments for the organ or piano 1842, and other music. d. 50 Sydney st. Brompton, London 8 April 1863. bur. Brompton cemet. Cornhill Mag. Feb. 1885 pp. 148–62.

NETTLEFOLD, Joseph Henry. b. London 1827; in a hardware business with his father and brother 54 High Holborn, London; managed the gimlet pointed wood screw branch of the business at Birmingham, in conjunction with Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., Chamberlain retired 1874; became a colliery proprietor and a wire manufacturer; business formed into a company as Nettlefolds, limited, with works at Smethwick; a member of Institute of mechanical engineers 1860; resided King’s Heath, Birmingham; presented his collection of David Cox’s paintings, valued at £40,000, to town of Birmingham Oct. 1881. d. Allean house, Pitlochry, Perthshire 22 Nov. 1881, personalty sworn as £287,000 Feb. 11, 1882. Proc. of Instit. of mechanical engineers (1882) 9–10.

NETTLESHIP, Henry (eld. son of Henry John Nettleship of Kettering, Northamptonshire, solicitor). b. Kettering 5 May 1839; ed. at Lancing college, Durham sch. and at Charterhouse; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxford 3 April 1857–61; Hertford scholar and Gaisford prizeman 1859; Craven scholar 1861; B.A. 1861, M.A 1863; fellow of Lincoln college 20 Jany 1862–71, tutor and librarian 1862–8; lecturer in classics Christ Church 1863–8; assistant master at Harrow 1868–73; fellow of C.C. coll. 1873, tutor and librarian 1875; joint classical lecturer at C.C. coll. and Ch. Ch. 1873; Corpus professor of Latin 25 June 1878 to death; matric. at univ. of Berlin 1865, and attended lectures there one term; edited J. Conington’s P. Virgili Maronis 1858, another ed. 1881; J. Conington’s The satires of A Persius Flaccus 1872; Essays of Mark Pattison 1889; A. O. Seyffert’s A dictionary of classical antiquities 1891; M. Pattison’s Isaac Casaubon, 2 ed. 1892; author of Ancient lives of Vergil 1879; Lectures and essays on subjects connected with Latin literature and scholarship 1885; Contributions to Latin lexicography 1889. d. 17 Bradmore road, Oxford 10 July 1893. I.L.N. 22 July 1893 p. 94 portrait; Graphic 22 July 1893 p. 103 portrait.

NETTLESHIP, Richard Lewis (brother of the preceding). b. Kettering 17 Dec. 1846; ed. at Uppingham school 1858–65, captain 1863–5; scholar of Balliol coll. Oxf. 1864–9, fellow 1869 to death, tutor 1871, dean 1872; Hertford scholar 1866, Ireland scholar 1867, Craven scholar 1870; B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; contributed The theory of education in Plato’s Republic to Evelyn Abbott’s Hellenica 1880, pp. 67–180; wrote A memoir of Thomas Hill Green, prefixed to the third volume of Green’s works 1880, pp. xi–clxi. d. between the Aiguille du Gouter and the Dome du Gouter 25 Aug. 1892, from exposure while attempting to ascend Mont Blanc. bur. at English church, Chamounix 29 Aug., memorial tablet placed in the antechapel of Balliol college, and a scholarship, tenable at the college by a student of music, founded by his pupils and friends. Uppingham School Magazine Nov. 1892. I.L.N. 3 Sept. 1892 p. 291 portrait.

NEUBERG, Joseph. b. Heidingsfeld, close to Würzburg, Bavaria 21 May 1806; in business at Hamburg and at Nottingham; president of the People’s college; naturalised in England 16 June 1845; studied at univ. of Bonn 1850–3; friend of Thomas Carlyle 1848, and his voluntary secretary 1849; his companion and guide over the battle fields of Prussia 1852; published T. Carlyle’s works in German as, T. Carlyle über Helden Heldenverehrung und das Heldenthümliche in der Geschichte 1853, 2 ed. 1889; Geschichte Friedrichs des Zuieiten 1858–69. d. New Mount lodge, Windsor terrace, Hampstead 23 March 1867. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 378–80; Macmillan’s Mag. Aug. 1884 pp. 280–97; J. A. Froude’s Thomas Carlyle ii 106–130 (1890).

NEVAY, John. b. Forfar 28 Jany. 1792; a handloom weaver at Forfar; wrote prose tales in various periodicals; several of his lyrics were translated into French and German; mentioned in Christopher North’s Noctes Ambrosianœ as John of ye Girnal; author of A pamphlet of rhymes 1818; A second pamphlet 1821; Emmanuel 1831, a sacred poem in nine cantos; The peasant, a poem in nine cantos 1834; The child of nature 1835; Rosalind’s dream 1853; The fountain of the rock 1855. d. Forfar 4 May 1870. J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland ii 122–4 (1877).

NEVILL, Charles William (eld. son of Richard Janion Nevill of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire). b. 7 May 1816; ed. at Rugby 1830 etc.; copper smelter and colliery proprietor; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1868; M.P. Carmarthen district 9 Feb. 1874 to July 1876. d. Westfa, Llanelly 7 June 1888.

NEVILL, Henry William (son of Henry Nevill, farmer). b. Wherwell, near Andover, Hants 28 July 1819; baker at 23 Great Wild st. Drury Lane, London 1839–44, at 17 Sidmouth st. Clerkenwell 1842–52, at 16 Holborn Bars 1851–9; commenced using hot water ovens 1860; opened a large bakery at 37 Bingfield st. Caledonian road 1855, and ultimately additional bakeries at 94 Milkwood road, Herne hill 1871, the Harrow road, Leytonstone 1883, and at Avenue terrace, Acton lane, Acton 1885; he had 58 hot water ovens and used 3,000 sacks of flour a week; had the largest business in London, where Nevill’s household bread became everywhere well known. d. Ramsgate 18 Aug. 1889, will proved Oct. 1889, left his business, etc. to his son Robert Nevill, and his personalty of £288,256 17s. 1d. to his three daughters. The Miller 2 Sept. 1889 p. 307 portrait, 4 Nov. 1889 p. 380; The Baker’s record 24 Aug. 1889 p. 6 portrait.

NEVILLE, Henry F. b. March 1822; educ. Maynooth coll.; missioner North Parish, Cork 1847; professor of logic Oct. 1850, and of theology 1852–69, in Maynooth college; D.D.; accompanied Dr. Moriarty to Rome as his theologian; created Monsignor by the Pope; minister of Passage and Monkstown 1870, and canon of Cork; parish priest of St. Finn Bars, dean and vicar general of Cork March 1875 to death; rector of Roman catholic univ. Dublin 1879; author of A few comments on Mr. Gladstone’s Expostulation, with some remarks on Vaticanism, 3 ed. 1875. d. Cork 15 Dec. 1889. bur. Blackrock graveyard 17 Dec. The Cork Examiner 16 Dec. 1889 p. 2, 18 Dec. p. 2; The Tablet 21 Dec. 1889 p. 999.

NEVILLE, John Garside. b. Manchester 1787; first appeared under Stephen Kemble at Whitehaven; acted in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, York, and Hull; manager of Manchester theatre 1826–31; manager of various theatres in the north of England; played at the Lyceum, London 1839; acted at the Surrey in G. B. Davidge’s characters, appearing on Whit Monday 1839 as Chrystal Baxter in Haine’s Alice Gray; played Friar Lawrence to the Romeo and Juliet of the Cushmans at Haymarket 1846; very good as Peter Bell, Jonathan Wild, and the Old Commodore; generally took the heavy business; proprietor of Deptford theatre; acted under Edmund Falconer at the Lyceum 1861–2, and under F. B. Chattertan at Drury Lane, retired after the run of Amy Robsart 1873. d. 16 March 1874. Theatrical Times iv 17–8 (1849) portrait; The Era 22 March 1874 p. 11.

NEVILLE, Park (son of Arthur Neville, surveyor to corporation of Dublin). b. Dublin 1812; educ. under Charles Vignoles, C.E., and William Farrell, architect; city engineer to corporation of Dublin 1851 to death; repaved the streets, and constructed new sewers 1853 etc.; carried out the Vartry waterworks, Dublin, at cost of £650,000; built cattle markets; made a street connecting Dame st. with Christ Church place at cost of £70,000; M.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1865. d. 58 Pembroke road, Dublin 30 Oct. 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii 424–7 (1886).

NEVILLE, William Latimer (1 son of William Neville of St. Martin’s, Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1801; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1828; C. of Holy Trinity, Brompton, London to 1859; superintendent of West Indian mission to Western Africa 1859 to death; author of The necessity of Christ’s suffering, a sermon at East Orchard, Dorset 1836; A Catholic’s reply to some Dissenters by birth, education and conviction 1836; An answer to G. H. Stodart’s Reasons for secession 1836; Apostolical succession proved 1839; A treatise on the divine origin of the scripture 1844; and in West Indian Church Association occasional papers, Journal of a voyage from Plymouth to Sierra Leone 1858. d. Fallangia on the Rio Pongas, West Africa 7 July 1861.

NEW, Herbert. b. 1821; solicitor at Evesham 1843 to death; senior partner in firm of New, Prance, and Garrard, the firm failed with liabilities of about £300,000 April 1894; registrar of Evesham county court 1868 to death; member of Evesham town council, alderman to death, mayor several times; author of Simon de Montfort and the battle of Evesham 1874; Memoir of A Martin and funeral addresses 1879. d. Green hill, Evesham 28 Nov, 1893.

NEW, Steven W. b. 1818; sang at Dr. Johnson tavern, Bolt court, Fleet st. London; chairman and musical director at several music halls; organist at Portland chapel, Portland st. London; composer of The English emigrant, ballad 1852; A selection of sacred music, as sung at Little Portland street chapel 1854; Charm of my life, ballad 1855; God’s presence in affliction, a sacred song 1856; The oath of allegiance, a song 1860; Who’s that tapping at the garden gate 1868; wrote nearly 100 pieces 1851–68. d. 21 Burton crescent, London, about 4 Sept. 1866.

NEWALL, Robert Stirling. b. Dundee 27 May 1812; employed under Robert M’Calmont London, experimenting on rapid production of steam; took out a patent for invention of wire rope which made submarine telegraphy possible 1840, established with his partners, Liddell and Gordon, works for the manufacture at Gateshead-on-Tyne 1840; made the telegraph cable laid between Dover and Calais 25 Sept. 1851, and many other cables; invented the brake-drum and cone for laying cables in deep seas 1853; made half of the first Atlantic cable 1858; gave his 25 inch refracting telescope to the university of Cambridge 2 March 1889; mayor of Gateshead 1867–8; F.R.A.S. 1864; F.R.S. 3 June 1875; M.I.M.E. 1879; received Brazilian order of the Rose 1872; D.C.L. Durham 1887; author of Facts relating to the invention of the submarine cable, and to the first cable between Dover and Calais 1882. d. Ferndene, near Gateshead 21 April 1889. Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvi, p. xxxiii (1890).

NEWBIGGING, Sir William (son of Robert Newbigging of Lanark, solicitor). b. Lanark 1772; F.R.C.S. Edinb. 1799; F.R.S. Edinb.; surgeon royal infirmary, Edinb. for periods of 12 and 8 years respectively; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838; author of Case of inguinal and popliteal aneurism cured by tying the external iliac artery, Edinb. 1815; Harveian oration 1838. d. 29 Heriot row, Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1852.

NEWBON, Robert Alger. Auctioneer at 275 Upper st. Islington, London; left by his will £20,000 to the royal national lifeboat institution, on condition that five lifeboats were provided, to be named respectively the Ann Newbon after his mother, the Lucy Newbon after his late wife, the Betsy Newbon and the Nancy Newbon after his sisters, and the Bob Newbon after himself; bequeathed to the incumbent and wardens of chapel of ease Upper st. Islington, £20,000 to be applied at their discretion for the schools and charities connected with the chapel, and to the Great Northern central hospital to found a Newbon ward £15,000. d. 28 Oct. 1891, probate duty paid on £130,000 Dec. 1891.

NEWBOULD, William Williamson (son of a Russia merchant). b. Sheffield 20 Jany. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Comberton and Harleton, Cambs. 1851–64; F.B.S. Edinb. 1841; an original member of Ray Society 1844; F.L.S. 1863; made botanical excursions to Jersey, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland 1842–62; added five or six species to the British flora; gave much help to C. C. Babington, G. S. Gibson and other botanists in their books. d. Kew 16 April 1886. bur. Fulham cemet. Journal of botany (1886) 159–74.

NEWBURGH, Margaret, Countess of (3 dau. of first marquess of Ailsa 1770–1846). b. 16 June 1800; m. 14 Nov. 1817 John Thomas Eyre, styled seventh earl of Newburgh, b. 1790 and d. 22 May 1833; joined the church of Rome; a friend of lady Lothian and lady Georgiana Fullerton; blind for some years but still worked for the poor. d. 35 Wilton crescent, London 3 Sept. 1889. P. Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) xxxii portrait.

NEWBURGH, Maria Cecilia Agatha Anna Josepha Laurentia Donata Melchiora Balthassara Gaspara Bandini, Countess of (only child of Vincent, prince Giustiniani, styled 6 earl of Newburgh 1762–1826). b. Rome 5 Feb. 1796; m. 21 Sept. 1815 Charles, 4 marquis Bandini and Rustano in the Roman states, he d. 5 June 1851; succeeded her father as princess Giustiniani and countess of Newburgh 13 Nov. 1826; naturalised by 20 and 21 Vict. cap. 14, 17 Aug. 1857; confirmed by the house of lords as countess of Newburgh 30 July 1858. d. Rome May 1878.

Note.—In the peerages of Burke, Lodge and Foster she is said to have died 8 Jany. 1877, but the death was not announced in The Times until 27 May 1878.

NEWBY, Emma (daughter of the rev. Henry Barry, R. of Draycot Cerne, Wilts.) m. 27 June 1848, Charles John Newby of London, solicitor, who d. 27 Aug. 1867; author of Margaret Hamilton, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Right and left, 3 vols. 1862; Wondrous strange, 3 vols. 1864; Trodden down, 3 vols. 1866; Common sense, 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1866; Only temper, 3 vols. 1868; Married, 3 vols. 1869; Langley manor, 3 vols. 1872; His wife, 3 vols. 1879.

NEWBY, Thomas Cautley. Publisher at 65 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. London 1843–4, at 72 Mortimer st. 1844–9, and at 30 Welbeck st. 1849–74; retired March 1874; one of the chief publishers of novels. d. 1882.

NEWCASTLE, Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, 4 Duke of (elder son of Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3 duke of Newcastle 1752–95). b. 30 Jany. 1785; styled lord Clinton 1785–94, and earl of Lincoln 1794–5; succeeded his father 17 May 1795; ed. at Eton 1796–1803; went to France 1803, detained there 1803–7; lord lieut. of Nottingham 20 Dec. 1809, dismissed 4 May 1839; K.G. 19 June 1812; the mob of Nottingham burnt Nottingham castle 10 Oct. 1831, for the damage done he was awarded sum of £21,000 in 1832; author of Thoughts in times past, tested by subsequent events 1836. d. Clumber Park, Notts. 12 Jany. 1851. bur. in Markham Clinton church 21 Jany. Portraits of eminent conservatives vol. 1 (1836) portrait 4; I.L.N. xviii 37, 62, 64 (1851) portrait; G.M. xxxv 309 (1851); Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire iii 405 (1797); J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage ii 566 (1886) portrait.

NEWCASTLE, Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, 5 Duke of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 22 May 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832; styled Earl of Lincoln 1811–51; M.P. for South Notts. 1832–46, and for Falkirk burghs 1846–51; a lord of the treasury 31 Dec. 1834 to 20 April 1835; P.C. 3 Sept. 1841; first comr. of woods and forests 25 Sept. 1841 to 10 March 1846; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 14 Feb. 1846 to 6 July 1846; sec. of state for the colonies 28 Dec. 1852 to June 1854; sec. of state for war 12 June 1854 to Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Notts. 2 Feb. 1857 to death; colonial sec. 18 June 1859 to April 1864; went to Canada and United States with prince of Wales 1860; lord warden of stannaries 6 Feb. 1862 to 1864; one of council to prince of Wales Jany. 1863; K.G. 17 Dec. 1860. d. Clumber park, Worksop, Notts. 18 Oct. 1864, personalty sworn under £250,000, 11 Feb. 1865. C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 353–5; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 122–30; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 412–17; Men of the time, British statesmen (1854) 240–50; G.M. xvii 783–86 (1864); I.L.N. viii 129 (1846) portrait; The British cabinet in 1853, 240–50; Reynolds’s Miscellany xxvii 308 (1862) portrait.

NEWCASTLE, Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, 6 Duke of. b. 25 Jany. 1834; styled lord Clinton 1834–51, and earl of Lincoln 1851–64; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1852; M.P. Newark 1857–9; succeeded 18 Oct. 1864; kept race horses from 1856, but was always unfortunate; grand master of the freemasons of Nottingham; bankrupt 11 Feb. 1870, bankruptcy annulled 31 Jany. 1871. d. 10 Park place, St. James’s, London 22 Feb. 1879. Baily’s mag. xii 1–3 (1867) portrait; I.L.N. xxx 385, 386 (1857) portrait.

NEWCOMB, George. b. Chelmsford 1835; member of Smith’s circus at Chelmsford about 1852; engaged as bottom densman at Wombwell’s No. 2 menagerie at Ramsgate; became a lion tamer; had his left eye torn out by a leopard; had an encounter at Swindon with five African lions 1874, when he received 9 wounds on the right arm and other injuries, 3 of the lions died in the struggle. d. about 4 Jany. 1890.

NEWCOMBE, John Reilly. b. Bath 20 March 1803; bought the lease of the Swansea theatre; manager with Paul John Bedford of theatre royal, Bath 12 April to 22 May 1841; lessee and manager of theatre royal, Plymouth 16 April 1845 to death; lessee and manager of Devonport theatre to 1874, also of Barnstaple theatre; engaged Taglioni, the dancer, at salary of £100 a night 1845, Macready played at Plymouth in Sept. 1849, at a nightly salary of 50 guineas, to nearly empty houses, on account of the cholera epidemic; lost £10,000 during his first ten years 1845–55; the theatre partly burnt 1853; spent £3,000 renovating the theatre, which was opened 19 Aug. 1861; the house was damaged by fire 5 Jany. 1863, but re-opened 12 Jany.; it was burnt down 13 June 1878, when he lost £4,000, the theatre was rebuilt by the town council and re-opened 24 Dec. 1878; presented with £700 and a silver salver by 237 friends at duke of Cornwall hotel, Plymouth 6 Nov. 1878; was a good low comedian, his three best parts were the Widow Twankey, Bob Handy, and Jeremy Diddler; nearly always played in his Christmas pantomime; was the oldest lessee and manager in England, and had the last stock company in the provinces; hunted for 60 years down to a few months before his death; judge at Plymouth race meetings for some years; rode in several races. d. 4 Crescent place, Plymouth 18 July 1887. bur. Plymouth cemetery 21 July. Era 23 July 1887 p. 13; Western Morning News 19 July 1887 p. 5, 22 July p. 5.

Note.—He is drawn by Mortimer Collins in his novel Two plunges for a pearl, 3 vols. 1872, under name of Oldgo. His elder son Albert Newcombe, who was his treasurer and acting manager many years, d. 28 Jany. 1881, aged 48, and his younger son Arthur Newcombe d. 15 Aug. 1883, aged 34.

NEWCOME, Edward Clough (son of rev. William Newcome). Educ. Eton 1823 etc.; capt. East Norfolk artillery militia; J.P. for Norfolk; a lover of hawking; an ornithologist. d. Feltwell hall, near Brandon 22 Oct. 1871.

NEWCOME, Richard. b. 1779; ed. at Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804; R. of Llanrydd, Denbighshire, and warden of Ruthin, Denbighshire 1804–51; R. of Llanfwrog, Denbighshire 1804–51; canon of Bangor 15 June 1821 to 1834; R. of Clocaenog, Denbighshire 20 Dec. 1829 to 1834; archdeacon of Merioneth 4 June 1834 to death; R. of Llanrhaiadr-in-Kimmerch, Denbighshire 1851 to death. d. Llanrhaiadr vicarage 7 Aug. 1857.

NEWCOMEN, Arthur Henry Turner (son of Arthur Newcomen, 1 lieut. royal horse artillery, d. 1848). b. Kirkleatham hall, near Redcar 1844; master of a pack of harriers at the age of thirteen; master of the Cleveland hounds 1875 to death; a breeder of horses, and owner of race horses; the chief promoter of the Redcar race course and grand stand; a good shot, a fisherman, and a cricketer. d. 6 April 1884. Baily’s Mag. xxvii 311 (1875) portrait.

NEWDEGATE, Charles Newdigate (only son of Charles Newdigate Newdegate of Harefield place, Middlesex, d. 1833). b. 14 July 1816; ed. at Eton 1829–34, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1859, D.C.L. 1863; M.P. for North Warwickshire 11 March 1843–85; a great opponent of the church of Rome; P.C. 6 Feb. 1886; presented by his Warwickshire constituents with an illuminated address and £547, 1886; published between 1849 and 1852 many letters on The balance of trade, ascertained from the market value of all articles imported; author of A collection of the customs’ tariffs of all nations 1855; Speech on the state of Ireland and the proposals for the establishment of a Roman catholic university 1868. d. Arbury hall, Warwickshire 9 April 1887. bur. Harefield church 15 April.

NEWELL, M’Fadden Alexander. b. Belfast 7 Sept. 1824; educ. royal college, Belfast and Trin. coll. Dublin; went to U.S. of America 1848; professor of natural science in Baltimore city college 1850–4, and in Lafayette college, Pennsylvania 1854–64; president of the normal school, state of Maryland 1865–8; superintendent of public instruction of state of Maryland 1868 to death, his Annual reports in 25 vols. are highly esteemed; published with professor Creery a series of text-books entitled the Maryland series. d. Havre de Grace, Maryland Aug. 1893.

NEWELL, Robert Hasell (son of Robert Richardson Newell, surgeon). b. Essex 1778; ed. at Colchester school; pensioner of St. John’s coll. Camb. 22 April 1795, scholar 2 Nov. 1795, fellow 1 April 1800, lecturer 1800–4, dean 1809–13; fourth wrangler 1799; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.D. 1810; R. of Little Hormead, Herts 1 June 1813 to death; C. of Great Hormead, Herts; a good amateur artist; his edition of Goldsmith’s Poetical Works 1811 and 1820 is embellished with drawings by himself; illustrated his Letters on the scenery of North Wales 1821; author of The zoology of the English poets corrected by the writings of modern naturalists 1845. d. 31 Jany. 1852.

NEWELL, Thomas George. Entered Madras army 1804; lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 25 July 1805, captain 5 June 1820; major 21 N. I. 4 Feb. 1832 to 30 April 1837; lieut. col. 4 N.I. 30 April 1837, of 25 N.I. 1838–40, of 42 N.I. 1840–1, of 47 N.I. 1841–4. of 28 N.I. 1844–5, and of 32 N.I. 1845–6; col. of 6 N.I. 16 March 1847 to death. d. England 11 Oct. 1853.

NEWENHAM, Frederick. b. 1807; an historical and portrait painter in London; exhibited his picture Parisina at the R.A. 1838; painted a portrait of the queen for the Junior united service club 1842, it was exhibited at the R.A. 1844; became a fashionable painter of ladies’ portraits; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A. and 17 at B.I. 1838–55. d. 21 March 1859.

NEWHAM, Samuel (only son of Samuel Newham). b. Walford, Notts. 24 June 1796; a billiard player, a whist player, and a patron of all popular games; one of the strongest chess players in the provinces; founder and president of Nottingham chess club, the members presented him with a piece of plate 1837; played in the first International tournament, which was held at the St. George’s chess club rooms, Cavendish sq. London 1851, when he was defeated by Mr. Szen, who was one of the best players in the world. d. Nottingham 24 March 1875. Chess players’ chronicle iv 313 (1875).

NEWINGTON, Charles (7 son of a medical man at Ticehurst, Sussex, d. 1811). b. Ticehurst 1781; M.R.C.S. 1802; an assistant to his father at Ticehurst lunatic asylum 1802, with his brother Jesse Newington became manager of the establishment 1811, Jesse d. 1819; on decease of his mother, purchased the asylum 1831; spent large sums in improving the house and grounds; had 60 patients and as many servants; invented an instrument for feeding patients who tried to starve themselves; aided John Read in perfecting an instrument for removing obstructions; invented a tell-tale clock; asylum partly burnt down 22 April 1852. d. Ticehurst 27 April 1852. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 254–5.

NEWLAND, Henry Garrett. b. London 1804; taken to Sicily 1809; ed. at Lausanne 1816; matric. from Christ’s coll. Camb. 1821. migrated to C.C. coll., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Westbourne, Sussex Sept. 1829; V. of Westbourne Jany. 1834 to 1855, where he established a daily choral service 1850; V. of St. Mary-Church, near Torquay 1855 to death; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1855 to death; author of The Erne, its legends and its fly-fishing 1851; Confession and absolution 1852; Three lectures on tractarianism 1854, 4 ed. 1853; The seasons of the church, what they teach, 3 vols. 1856–60; Confirmation and first communion 1853, 2 ed. 1854; Postils, short sermons on the parables 1854; Forest scenes in Norway and Sweden 1854. d. St. Mary-Church 25 June 1860. R. J. Shutte’s Memoir of H. G. Newland (1861) portrait.

NEWLANDS, James (son of a rope manufacturer). b. Edinburgh 28 July 1813; assistant to David Low, professor of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1833–36; the first borough engineer of Liverpool 26 Jany. 1847 to May 1871, constructed a new system of sewage; A.I.C.E. 6 June 1848, M.I.C.E 20 Jany. 1857; his paintings exhibited in Royal Scottish academy; sent by government to Balaklava during Crimean war as sanitary commissioner 1855; author of Liverpool water supply, a report 1849; The carpenter and joiner’s assistant 1857–60, new ed. 1880; wrote for 7 ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica the articles ropemaking and history of steam navigation, also contributed to 8 edition. d. Liverpool 15 July 1871. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii 227–31 (1872).

NEWMAN, Alfred A. (eld. son of S. Newman of Forest Hill, Surrey). b. 1852; art metal worker 19 Maddox st. Regent st. London 1884; did much to revive art iron work and was a craftsman of talent; founded the Old English Smithy in Archer st. Haymarket, London, which was a place of fashionable resort in the season; made the wrought iron work for Eaton hall, Cheshire; an art commissioner and expert for the Folkestone exhibition 1886; his forge at the Inventions’ exhibition 1885 was one of the most interesting sights; took great interest in Anglo Jewish history and made a collection of prints and tracts on the subject; his efforts defeated the proposal to demolish Bevis Marks synagogue 1886. d. 30 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 21 Jany. 1887. bur. Willesden cemetery 24 Jany. The Jewish Chronicle 28 Jany. 1887 p. 5.

NEWMAN, Arthur Shean. b. Old Bridge house, Southwark 1828; partner with Arthur Billing as architects; surveyor to Guy’s hospital and to St. Olave’s district board of works many years; designed St. James’s church, Kidbrook, Blackheath 1867, Christ church, Somers Town 1868, and Holy Trinity church, Penge 1872; restored Stepney church. d. 22 Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent 3 March 1873.

NEWMAN, Charles Robert (brother of cardinal John Henry Newman). Usher in a school at Windmill Hill, near Hurstmonceaux, Sussex 1845; an acquaintance of Julius Charles Hare; resided at Tenby 30 years; a very great recluse, lived alone in lodgings, seldom went out except after dark and had hardly any acquaintances; Thomas Purnell visited him 1857–60. d. Marsh road, Tenby March 1884. Athenæum 29 March 1884 pp. 408, 475.

NEWMAN, Edward (eld. son of George Newman, woolstapler). b. Hampstead 13 May 1801; ed. at Painswick, Gloucs. 1812–7; a woolstapler with his father at Godalming, Surrey 1817–26; owned a ropewalk at Deptford 1826–37; printer with George Luxford at the sign of the Bouncing B, Ratcliff highway, London 1840, Luxford retired 1841; Newman removed to 9 Devonshire st. Bishopsgate 1841, retired 1870; one of the four founders of the Entomological club 1826, editor of the Journal started 1832, one of chief founders of Entomological Society which grew out of the club 1833; F.L.S. 1833; edited The Entomologist 1840–3, and The Zoologist, 34 vols. 1843–63, and Montagu’s A dictionary of British birds 1866; brought out and wrote much in The Phytologist, monthly magazine June 1841 to June 1854; curator of the Entomological club’s museum, to which he gave his entire collection 1842; natural history editor of The Field 1858 to death; author of The grammar of entomology 1835, 2 ed. under title of A familiar introduction to the history of insects 1841; A history of British ferns 1840, 3 ed. 1854; The insect hunter, or entomology in verse 1857 anon.; Birdnesting and bird skinning 1861, 2 ed. 1888; edited An illustrated history of British moths 1869; An illustrated history of British butterflies 1870–1. d. 7 York grove, Peckham 12 June 1876. bur. Nunhead cemetery. T. P. Newman’s Memoir of Edward Newman (1876) portrait; Joseph Smith’s Friends’ Books ii 236–7 (1867); Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 467–72; Leisure Hour xxix 629.

NEWMAN, Edward. b. Newton Abbot, Devon 1832; an engineer in Swindon locomotive works; second class assist. engineer R.N. Oct. 1853, engineer June 1859, chief engineer 26 Feb. 1866; first assistant to chief engineer at Portsmouth 1867, superintendent of the steam department 1872 to death; wounded in the explosion on board the Thunderer 14 July 1876, when superintending the trial of the engines, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. d. Portsmouth dockyard 4 Dec. 1882. bur. Haslar hospital with naval honors 8 Dec. The Engineer 8 Dec. 1882 p. 426; The Army and navy gazette 9 Dec. 1882 p. 1011; The Times 7 Dec. 1882 p. 10.

NEWMAN, Frederick, D.D.; a bishop of the Free church of England and president of the London district; author of The true church of Christ, a lecture 1856; Thoughts on church orders and government, historically, ecclesiastically and scripturally considered 1877. d. Willesborough, near Ashford, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. The Free church of England Mag. July 1884 p. 114 et seq.

NEWMAN, Horatio Townsend. b. 1781; ordained deacon 6 July 1806, priest 12 July 1807; prebendary of Kilbrogan 1818–42; dean of Cork 24 March 1842 to death; author of A brief view of ecclesiastical history from the earliest periods to the present time 1844, 2 ed. 1866. d. Cork 6 Jany. 1864.

NEWMAN, James. b. 1804; apprenticed to Gosling and Eglen of New Bond st. London, booksellers; historical and parliamentary bookseller at 225 High Holborn, London about 1830 to death. d. St. Leonard’s, near Hastings 28 May 1877. Bookseller June 1877 p. 500.

NEWMAN, John (son of John Newman, wholesale dealer in leather, d. Hampstead 1 Oct. 1808). bapt. at St. Sepulchre’s church, London 8 July 1786; employed under sir Robert Smirke in the erection of Covent Garden theatre 1809, and at the general post office 1823–9; one of the three surveyors in the commission of sewers for Kent and Surrey about 1815; designed R.C. church of St. Mary, Blomfield st. Moorfields, London 1817–20, the school for the blind in St. George’s fields, Southwark 1834–8, and St. Olave’s girls’ school, Maze road, Southwark 1839–40; clerk of the Bridge house estates; an original fellow of Institute of British architects 1834; F.S.A. 1830–49; his collection of the antiquities found in and near London, was sold by auction at Sotheby’s 1848; retired from practice 1851. d. at house of his son-in-law Dr. Alexander Spiers at Passy, near Paris 3 Jany. 1859.

NEWMAN, John Henry (eld. child of John Newman, partner in bank of Ramsbottoms, Newman, Ramsbottom and co. 72 Lombard street, London). b. Old Broad st. London 21 Feb. 1801; ed. at Dr. Nicholas’s school, Ealing 1808–16; entered at Trin. coll. Oxf. 14 Dec. 1816, scholar 1818; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1836; student at Lincoln’s inn 1819; fellow of Oriel coll. 12 April 1822, tutor 1826–32; C. of St. Clement’s ch. Oxford 13 June 1824; vice-principal of Alban Hall, Oxford March 1825–6; one of the preachers at Whitehall 1827; V. of St. Mary’s, Oxford 14 March 1828, resigned 18 Sept. 1843; a select univ. preacher 1831–2; began the Tracts for the times Sept. 1833, and eventually wrote 29 of the series; editor of The British Critic 1838 to July 1840; published Tract 90 1841; withdrew from Oxford 1841, resided at Littlemore monastery 1841–4; received into Church of Rome by Father Dominic the Passionist at Littlemore 9 Oct. 1845; quitted Oxford 23 Feb. 1846; ordained priest and received degree of doctor of divinity at Rome 30 May 1847; established the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Alcester st. Birmingham 1848, it was subsequently removed to Edgbaston; founded the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 24 and 25 King William st. Strand, London, opened 31 May 1849, where he delivered his Lectures on Anglican difficulties; fined £100 by Mr. Justice Coleridge for libelling Dr. Achilli 23 Jany. 1853, his costs of £14,000 were defrayed by public subscription; rector of the Catholic university, Dublin 1854–8, which proved a failure; honorary fellow of Trin. coll. Oxf. 28 Dec. 1877; created cardinal of the title of St. George in Velabro at Rome 12 May 1879; author of Lyra Apostolica 1836, 3 ed. 1866; Parochial sermons, 6 vols. 1834–42; Lectures on justification 1838, 4 ed. 1885; An essay on the development of Christian doctrine 1845, 3 ed. 1878; Apologia pro vita sua 1864, 3 ed. 1873; The dream of Gerontius 1866, 23 ed. 1888; wrote upwards of 70 works, besides editing many others; to some of his publications very numerous printed replies were made; an edition of his works in 36 volumes was printed 1868–81. d. the Oratory, Edgbaston 11 Aug. 1890. bur. at Rednal, busts by Westmacott and Woolner, a statue is to be erected by public subscription in front of the London oratory in the Brompton road. J. H. Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua (1864); Anne Mozley’s Letters and correspondence of J. H. Newman, 2 vols. 1891; R. W. Church’s The Oxford movement (1891) 5 et seq.; Illust. Review iii 577–85 (1872) portrait; R. H. Hutton’s Cardinal Newman (1891) portrait; T. Mozley’s Reminiscences, 2 vols. (1882) passim; C. K. Paul’s Biographical sketches (1883) 171–224; Memoir of J. R. Hope-Scott, 2 vols. (1884) passim; Edgbastonia iv 65–69 (1884) portrait; The Lamp ii 303 (1851) portrait; Graphic xxii 497 (1880) portrait; I.L.N. v 45 (1844) portrait, lxxiv 456 (1879) portrait, 19 Oct. 1889 full page portrait.

Note.—He is described in Maude, or the Anglican sister of mercy, by Miss Elizabeth Jane Whately 1869, under the name of Dr. Oldacre.

NEWMAN, Sir Lydston, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Robert William Newman, 1 bart., M.P. 1776–1848). b. Sandridge, Devon 14 Nov. 1823; ensign 72 Highlanders 28 March 1844, captain 19 July 1850, served at Gibraltar and in West Indies; capt. 7 hussars 17 June 1851, sold out 9 May 1856, served in the Crimea 1854–5; sheriff of Devon 1871; succeeded his brother sir R. Newman, who fell at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; kept race horses from 1856; had a large breeding establishment at Mamhead 1857–68, had annual sales in June when he obtained good prices; bought Gemma di Vergy for 1,010 guineas. d. Mamhead, near Exeter 29 Dec. 1892. Biograph iii 220–4 (1880); Baily’s Mag. ix 325–6 (1864) portrait; lix 140 (1893).

NEWMAN, William Abiah (eld. son of James Newman). b. St. Pancras, London 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; M.A. Oxford 1847, B.D. and D.D. 7 June 1855; C. of St. George’s, Wolverhampton 1840–54; C. of Collegiate church, Wolverhampton 1854; chaplain Wolverhampton general hospital; dean of Capetown 1851–8; special preacher for the S.P.G. 1856; C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1858–9; edited South African magazine 1850–52; author of The martyrs, the dreams, and other poems, Wolverhampton 1847; The gospel of Christ exemplified in the writings of Paul 1848; A lecture on the Cape of Good Hope 1856; St. Peter’s church, Wolverhampton, an address 1857. d. Hastings 7 Feb. 1864. Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis (1894) 327.

NEWMARCH, William. b. Thirsk, Yorkshire 28 Jany. 1820; second cashier in bank of Leatham, Tew, & Co. of Wakefield 1843–6; second officer of London branch of the Agra bank 1846–51; joined the staff of the Morning Chronicle about 1846; secretary of the Globe insurance co. 1851; manager in bank of Glyn, Mills, & co. 1862–81; secretary of the Statistical society 1862–9, edited the Journal for five years, president 1869; secretary of the Political economy club some years; gave evidence before select committee on the Bank acts 1857; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author of The new supplies of gold 1853; On the loans raised by Mr. Pitt during the first French war 1793–1801, 1855; A history of prices and of the state of the circulation during the nine years 1848–56, 1857, translated into German; The political perils of 1859, 1859. d. 3 Sulyarde terrace, Torquay 23 March 1882. bur. Norwood 27 March, the Newmarch professorship of economic science and statistics at University college, London was founded in his memory. Journal of Statistical Society (1882) 115–9, 209, 284, 333, 389, 397, 519–21; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv p. xvii (1883).

NEWNHAM, William (son of a general medical practitioner). b. Farnham, Surrey 1 Nov. 1790; studied at Guy’s hospital and in Paris; pupil of sir Astley Cooper; practised at Farnham to 1856; an early member of Provincial medical and surgical assoc. 1836, a trustee of its benevolent fund and general manager 1847–55; author of A tribute of sympathy addressed to mourners 1817, 8 ed. 1842; An essay on inversio uteri 1818; The principles of physical, intellectual, moral, and religious education, 2 vols. 1827; Essay on superstition 1830; Essay on disorders incident to literary men 1836; Human magnetism, its claims to dispassionate inquiry 1845. d. Tunbridge Wells 24 Oct. 1865.

NEWPORT, George (son of a wheelwright). b. Canterbury 4 July 1803; curator of Mr. Masters’s natural history museum; entered London univ. 16 Jany. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1835, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; house surgeon to Chichester infirmary April 1835 to Jany. 1837; practised in London 1837; received royal medal of Royal Society for his paper, printed in Philosophical Transactions 1851, pp. 169–242, entitled On the impregnation of the ovum in the amphibia; president of Entomological Soc. 1844–5; F.R.S. 26 March 1846, member of council to death; F.L.S. 1847; granted civil list pension of £100 a year 16 Nov. 1847; author of Observations on the anatomy, habits, and economy of Athalia Centifoliæ, the saw-fly of the turnip 1838; Catalogue of Myriapoda in the British Museum 1856. d. 55 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 7 April 1854. Proc. of Royal Soc. vii 278–85 (1855); Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii 309–12 (1855).

NEWSOME, Timothy (brother of James Newsome, circus proprietor). b. 1813; a lion tamer of great courage and nerve; served with Hilton, Manders, Wombwell, Batty, Newsome and other menagerie proprietors; received 25 wounds in an encounter with a lion at Middleton, near Manchester, when he killed the lion with a stroke from the butt end of a musket; his body was quite scarred with the wounds he had received in combats with wild animals; his wife, also a lion tamer, d. 1874, and was bur. Bury, Lincolnshire; he d. Preston, North Shields March 1890. bur. Preston cemetery 25 March.

NEWSON, Samuel. b. 1816; a private in the army, served in the Crimea; a hawker of fish; a street itinerant in the neighbourhood of Shepherd’s market and other localities, who went about with a wooden sword reciting passages from Shakespeare, chiefly from Richard iii and Romeo and Juliet; generally called Richard the Third. run over by a Hansom cab in Piccadilly, London 28 March 1880, on being taken to St. George’s hospital was found to be dead. The Times 10 April 1880 p. 12.

NEWTON, Adelaide Leaper. b. Derby 1 March 1824; author of The song of Solomon compared with other parts of scripture 1850; The epistle to the Hebrews compared with the old testament 1854; The heavenly life, select writings of A. L. Newton 1856; Sabbath hours 1862; The eternal purposes of God 1868. d. 26 April 1854. A memoir of A. L. Newton, By Rev. John Baillie, 2 ed. (1856) portrait.

NEWTON, Alfred Pizzi. b. Essex 1830; painted water-colour pictures in the highlands of Scotland; selected by the queen to paint a picture as a wedding gift to the princess royal 1858; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours 1 March 1858, member 24 March 1879; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1855–9; his best known pictures are Mountain gloom 1860, The Mountain pass 1880, and Shetland desolation 1882. d. at house of his father-in-law Edward Wylie 14 Rock park, Rockferry, Liverpool 9 Sept. 1883. I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1883 p. 405 portrait.

NEWTON, Ann Mary (dau. of Joseph Severn, painter, d. Rome 2 Aug. 1879). b. Rome 29 June 1832; studied under Ary Scheffer in Paris; painted many portraits in England; exhibited 7 portraits at the R.A. 1863–5; m. 27 April 1861 Sir Charles Thomas Newton 1816–94; made many drawings of the antiquities at the British Museum for her husband’s books and lectures; made many sketches in Greece and Asia Minor. d. 37 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2 Jany. 1866.

NEWTON, Sir Charles Thomas (son of rev. Newton Dickinson Hand Newton, V. of Bredwardine, Hereford, d. 1853). b. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.C.L. 1875; LL.D. Cambridge and Ph.D. Strasburg 1879; Assistant in department of antiquities, British Museum May 1840 to Jany. 1852; vice consul at Mytilene 24 Jany. 1852; acting consul at Rhodes April 1852 to Jany. 1853; superintended excavations at Budrum and Cape Crio April 1856 to April 1859, discovered the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus; consul at Rome 10 June 1859 to 16 Jany. 1861; head of department of Greek and Roman antiquities in British Museum 17 Jany. 1861, resigned Dec. 1885; purchased for the Museum 1874 the collection of gems of the Duc de Blacus for £48,000, also the collection of bronzes, vases, &c. of Alexandro Castellani; antiquary to the Royal academy; corresponding member of the French institute; hon. fell. of Worcester coll. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1874; C.B. 16 Nov. 1875, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; presided at nearly all the meetings of the Hellenic Society 1879–84; the first professor of archæology in Univ. coll. London July 1880, resigned 1889; author of Notes on the sculptures at Wilton house, privately printed 1849; A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchida, 2 vols. 1862; Travels and discoveries in the Levant, 2 vols. 1865; Essays on art and archæology 1880; translated Panofka’s Manners and customs of the Greeks 1849; edited The collection of ancient Greek inscriptions in the British museum 1874. d. Westgate-on-Sea, Kent 28 Nov. 1894. National Review Jany. 1895 pp. 616–27; I.L.N. 8 Dec. 1894 p. 700 portrait; Times 30 Nov. 1894 p. 10.

NEWTON, Horace Parker (3 son of Wm. Newton of Elveden, Suffolk). b. 29 Oct. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 11 Jany. 1843, col. 4 Feb. 1874; served in Crimean war 1854–6; commanded R.A. in Western district 1876–81; M.G. 13 Feb. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Feb. 1882. d. London 23 Sept. 1890.

NEWTON, Richard. b. Liverpool 25 July 1813; graduated at univ. of Pennsylvania 1836, and at general theological seminary, New York 1839; R. of Holy Trinity ch., West Chester 1839; R. of St. Paul’s ch., Philadelphia 1840–62; R. of ch. of the Epiphany, Philadelphia 1862–81; R. of ch. of the Covenant, Philadelphia 1881 to death; D.D. Kenyon college, Ohio 1862; his sermons for children have been translated into French, German, Arabic, and other languages; author of The giants and how to fight them 1861, 9 ed. 1881; Rills from the fountain of life 1860, 6 ed. 1877; The king’s highway 1861; 5 ed. 1878; Bible jewels 1868, 3 ed. 1877, Nature’s mighty wonders 1871, 2 ed. 1877. d. Philadelphia 25 May 1887. R. Newton’s The heath in the wilderness, to which is added the story of his life by W. W. N., New York (1888).

NEWTON, Robert (4 son of Francis Newton, farmer 1732–1816). b. Roxby, north riding of Yorkshire 8 Sept. 1780; preached his first sermon 1798; Wesleyan minister in London 1812–4, at Liverpool 1817–20, 1826–32 and 1850–2, at Manchester 1820–6, 1832–5 and 1841–7, at Leeds 1835–41, and at Stockport 1847–50; gave his services during the week to the rural districts, travelling from six to eight thousand miles a year on preaching tours; president of the Wesleyan conference 1824, 1832, 1840 and 1848, secretary of the conference 19 times; visited Ireland 1822 for first time, and America 1839; created D.D. by an American univ. 1839; author of Memoirs of the late Mr. Francis Newton, Wakefield 1817; Sermons on special and ordinary occasions, edited by J. H. Rigg 1856. d. Easingwold, near York 30 April 1854. T. Jackson’s Life of Rev. Robert Newton (1855) portrait; A. Stevens’s History of methodism ii 364–8, 442, 610, 647 (1873–4) portrait; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 129–41; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 269–81; The Pulpit v (1826) portrait; J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 189–93.

NEWTON, Thomas Duncombe (son of John Newton of the customs house, Plymouth). b. Weymouth 1799; educ. Totnes gram. sch.; member of Plymouth glee and madrigal club; a founder of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Roger, sacristan 17 May 1829; friend of Charles Mathews. d. 5 West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 1869. Wrights’ The Blue Friars (1889) 141, 217–18 portrait.

NEWTON, William (son of Mr. Newton of Chancery lane, London, globe maker). b. London 1786; globe maker, land surveyor, and draftsman at 66 Chancery lane, London, afterwards patent agent at same address to death; established London Journal of arts and sciences 1820, edited it to his death; introduced many valuable improvements into manufacture of globes and projection of maps; A.I.C.E. 1837; Associate of British archæological association 1846, contributed papers to the Journal; author of Letters and suggestions upon the amendment of the patent laws 1835; A display of heraldry 1846; London in the olden time 1855. d. Clarence house, Herne Bay 10 July 1861. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi 593 (1862); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xviii 359–60 (1862).

NEWTON, William. Resided at 35 Arbour sq. Stepney, London; member of metropolitan board of works for Mile End Old Town 1862 to death. d. 41 Stepney Green, London 9 March 1876.

NEWTON, William Henry. b. about 1789; lieutenant 1 foot 23 Aug. 1804; captain 64 foot 25 June 1808; captain 62 foot 29 June 1815, placed on h.p. 25 May 1817; major in the army 27 May 1825, placed on h.p. 11 May 1826; lieut. col. in the army 28 June 1838; major royal Canadian rifle regiment 16 July 1841, lieut. col. 18 Dec. 1845, sold out 9 Dec. 1849; K.H. 1836. d. 1874.

NEWTON, Sir William John (son of James Newton the engraver). b. London 1785; engraved a few plates; became a miniature-painter; exhibited 343 miniatures at the R.A. 1808–63; miniature-painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and queen Adelaide 1831, and to Victoria 1837–58; knighted by the queen at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; invented a plan for joining several pieces of ivory to form a large surface; his three large miniatures The coronation of the queen 1838, The marriage of the queen 1840, and The christening of the prince of Wales 1842, were lent to the Victorian exhibition at the New gallery 1892; many of his portraits were engraved; a collection of his works was sold at Christie’s 23 June 1890. d. 6 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 22 Jany. 1869.

NEWTON, William Samuel. b. 16 Aug. 1816; ensign Coldstream guards 5 Dec. 1834, lieut. col. 13 Dec. 1860 to 2 July 1861; served in the Crimean campaign Oct. 1854 to April 1855; commanded at Malta 1868–70, at Dublin 1870–72; col. 82 foot 4 March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Eastbourne 16 Oct. 1889.

NIAS, Sir Joseph (3 son of Joseph Nias, ship insurance broker). b. London 2 April 1793; entered navy 19 Nov. 1807; served in W. E. Parry’s three expeditions to the Arctic regions 1818–23; first lieutenant of the Asia at battle of Navarino 7 Sept. 1829, captain 8 July 1835; captain of the Herald, frigate in the East Indies 1838–43, served at capture of Canton; commanded the Ordinary at Devonport 1850–3; granted good service pension 12 Jany. 1854; superintendent of victualling yard and hospital at Plymouth 2 Nov. 1854 to 13 Nov. 1856; R.A. 14 Feb. 1857, V.A. 12 Sept. 1863, retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867; C.B. 29 June 1841, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 56 Montagu sq. London 17 Dec. 1879.

NIBLO, William. b. Ireland 1789; went to New York, where he established a hotel and coffee-house; proprietor of Niblo’s Garden, New York 1829; purchased the library of Dr. Francis L. Hawks and presented it to New York historical society; left a library to the New York Young men’s christian association. d. New York 21 Aug. 1875.

NICHOL, James. b. Brechin, Forfarshire 1806; publisher in Edinburgh 1859 to death. d. Edinburgh 26 April 1866. Bookseller May 1866 p. 481.

NICHOL, John (only son of the succeeding). b. Montrose, Forfarshire 8 Sept. 1833; ed. in univ. of Glasgow 1848–55, and at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1855–9; B.A. Oxford 1859, M.A. 1874; LL.D. St. Andrews 1873, student of Gray’s Inn 12 Nov. 1859; professor of English literature in univ. of Glasgow 1861, resigned 1889; a private tutor at Oxford; lectured especially to ladies’ classes in Scotland and England; author of Fragments of criticism 1860; Hannibal, a classical drama 1872; Tables of European literature and history A.D. 200–1876, 1876, 5 ed. 1888; The death of Themistocles and other poems 1881; American literature, an historical review 1882; Lord Bacon’s Life and philosophy, 2 vols. 1887–9. d. 11 Stafford terrace, Kensington, London 11 Oct. 1894.

NICHOL, John Pringle (eld. son of John Nichol, gentleman farmer). b. Huntly Hill, near Brechin, Forfarshire 13 Jany. 1804; ed. at King’s college, Aberdeen; licensed as a preacher before he came of age; head master of the Hawick gr. sch.; editor of the Fife Herald; head master of Cupar academy; rector of Montrose academy 1827–34; regius professor of astronomy in univ. of Glasgow 1836 to death, procured transference of the Glasgow observatory from the college grounds to its present site at Dowanhill 1840; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1837; F.R.A.S.; F.R.S. Edinb. 1836; author of Views of the architecture of the heavens 1837, 9 ed. 1868; Phenomena of the solar system 1838; The system of the world 1846, 2 ed. 1848; The stellar universe 1847; The planetary system 1848; The planet Neptune 1855; A cyclopædia of the physical sciences 1857; translated Willm’s Education of the people 1847; one of the editors of Mackenzie’s Imperial dictionary of biography 1857. d. Glenburn house, near Rothesay, Buteshire 19 Sept. 1859. Maclehose’s Hundred, Glasgow men ii 249–52 (1886) portrait; G. Gilfillan’s A second gallery of literary portraits (1850) 231–55; C. Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections i 313–24 (1877).

NICHOLAS, Richard Griffin. b. 23 Jany. 1843; cornet 3 dragoon guards 18 Feb. 1862, sold out 3 April 1866; served in the ranks 5 years and 9 months; riding master 4 dragoon guards 13 April 1872; lieut. 1 dragoon guards 14 Feb. 1874, adjutant 1874–81; captain 5 lancers 15 Oct. 1881; captain 1 dragoon guards 1 April 1882 to death. d. Canterbury 23 Jany. 1884. bur. St. Thomas’s hill cemet. 26 Jany.

NICHOLAS, Thomas. b. near Treffgarne chapel, Solva, Pembrokeshire 1820; ed. at Lancashire college, Manchester and in Germany, where he took degree of Ph.D.; became a Presbyterian minister; professor of biblical literature and mental and moral science at Presbyterian college, Carmarthen 1856, resigned 1863 and settled in London; one of promoters of a scheme for the furtherance of higher education in Wales on unsectarian principles, the University college of Wales was founded at Aberystwith 1867, one of the governors, drew out a new scheme of education; author of Middle and high class schools and university education for Wales 1863; Pedigree of the English people 1868, 5 ed. 1878; Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales, 2 vols. 1872; History and antiquities of the county of Glamorgan and its families 1874. d. 156 Cromwell road, London 14 May 1879. Athenæum 24 May 1879 p. 662.

NICHOLAS, Tressilian George (5 son of George Nicholas of St. George’s, Westminster). matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 25 April 1839, aged 17; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading 1845–6; P.C. of West Molesey, Surrey 1846–59; V. of Lower Halstow, Kent 1859–63; V. of West Molesey 1863 to death; author of Poems 1851; Sermon before the lord mayor and sheriffs of London 1858. d. West Molesey vicarage 23 Jany. 1891.

NICHOLAY, John Augustus. Furrier to the queen and royal family at 82 Oxford st. London to death; member of Metropolitan board of works for St. Marylebone 1856 to death. d. 82 Oxford st. London 20 Nov. 1873.

NICHOLDS, Joseph. b. near Birmingham; wrote three oratorios, one of which, Babylon, was published posthumously, the others, Miriam and The Redemption are still in manuscript; published Sacred music, a selection of psalm and hymn tunes 1820. d. Sedgeley, near Dudley 18 Feb. 1860.

NICHOLETTS, Gilbert (1 son of John Nicholetts of South Petherton, Somerset). b. 13 July 1826; educ. Rugby; lieut. 1 Bombay fusiliers 27 July 1848; adjutant to 1 Baluchis regiment 1854; served with 1 Sind horse in Persian war 1856, Persian medal and clasp; with 1 Baluchis regiment during Indian mutiny 1857–8, and was present in several actions; at the attack on Rampur Kussia succeeded to temporary command of the regiment and held it throughout the campaign; second in command of 1 Baluchis regiment 16 Sept. 1858 to 12 Feb. 1867; commandant of 2 Baluchis regiment 12 Feb. 1867 to death; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 27 July 1874 to death; served in Afghan campaign 1878–9. d. Kokaran, Afghanistan 18 July 1879. S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 146–7 portrait.

NICHOLL, Frederick Iltid. b. 1815; admitted solicitor 1840; practised at 18 Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1844, afterwards at Howard st. Strand to death; member of council of Incorporated law society 28 Nov. 1861, retired 1867; F.S.A. 30 May 1872. d. 120 Harley st. London 25 Feb. 1893.

NICHOLL, George Whitlock (2 son of Iltyd Nicholl of The Ham, Cowbridge, Glamorganshire 1785–1871). b. 2 Feb. 1816; barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1840; recorder of Usk Oct. 1861 to death; constable of the castle of Llanblethian. d. 1889.

NICHOLL, John (younger son of sir John Nicholl 1759–1838, dean of Arches and judge of high court of admiralty). b. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 21 Aug. 1797; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.C.L. 1823, D.C.L. 1825; barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; advocate Doctors’ Commons 3 Nov. 1826; M.P. for Cardiff 1832–52; one of junior lords of treasury 14 March to 18 April 1835; vicar general of province of Canterbury Sept. 1838 to 1844; judge advocate general 14 Sept. 1841 to 31 Jany. 1846; P.C. 14 Sept. 1841; chairman of Glamorganshire quarter sessions; member of board of trade 21 Jany. 1846. d. Via Sistine, Rome 27 Jany. 1853. bur. in the English protestant burial ground at Rome 29 Jany. G.M. xxxix 311 (1853); I.L.N. xxii 134 (1853).

NICHOLL, John (only son of John Nicholl, brewer, d. 1790). b. Stratford Green, Essex 19 April 1790; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1843; master of the Ironmongers’ Company 1859, compiled a history of the company in seven folio volumes, the first six of which he presented to the company 1840–4; printed for private circulation Some account of the worshipful company of ironmongers 1851, 2 ed. 1866; collected in six folio volumes genealogical notes made in the churches of Essex, and filled three folio volumes with Essex pedigrees, and three others with pedigrees of the various families of Nicholl, Nicholls, or Nichols; left in manuscript collections for the history of Islington, and notes on biblical criticism; privately printed his poems 1863. d. 8 Canonbury place, Islington 7 Feb. 1871. bur. in churchyard of Theydon Garnon, Essex 13 Feb., portrait by Middleton placed in court room of Ironmongers’ company 1851. Nicholl’s Herald and genealogist vii 83–5 (1873).

NICHOLLS, Benjamin. b. 1790; cotton manufacturer in Manchester 1816; built a mill in Chapel st. 1833; member of Manchester town council Nov. 1845 to death; mayor 1853–5; alderman for St. George’s ward 1855 to death; founded by his will the Nicholls hospital. d. York house, Oxford st. Manchester 1 March 1877.

NICHOLLS, George. Ensign 66 foot 26 June 1799, captain 23 Oct. 1809 to 11 May 1826, when placed on h.p.; orderly officer to Napoleon at St. Helena; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855. d. Rodney terrace, Cheltenham 11 March 1857, aged 81.

NICHOLLS, Sir George (eld. child of Solomon Nicholls of St. Keverne, Cornwall, d. 1793) b. St. Keverne 31 Dec. 1781; ed. at Helston gr. sch.; midshipman on board the East India company’s ship the Abergaveny 1796; captain of the Lady Lushington 1809; captain of the Bengal, which was burnt at Point de Galle 18 Jany. 1815, when he lost about £30,000, left the service 1815; resided at Southwell, Notts. 1815, overseer of the poor there 1821, reduced the amount of relief from £2,000 to £500 in two years by abolishing outdoor relief; resided at Gloucester 1823, where he controlled the Gloucester and Berkeley ship canal; superintendent of Birmingham branch of Bank of England Nov. 1826 to Aug. 1834; established the Birmingham savings’ bank; a director of Birmingham canal navigation to death, chairman the last 12 years; one of the three poor law comrs. 18 Aug. 1834 to 17 Dec. 1847; his two reports on the Irish poor law 1836–7 were the foundation of the provision of the Irish poor law act 1838, directed the working of the measure in Ireland Sept. 1838 to Nov. 1842; permanent secretary of the poor law board 18 Dec. 1847, retired 27 Jany. 1851; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851; author of Eight letters on the management of our poor, By An Overseer 1823; The farmer 1844; A history of the English poor law, 2 vols. 1854; A history of the Scotch poor law 1856; A history of the Irish poor law 1856. d. 17 Hyde park st. London 24 March 1865. bur. Willesden cemetery 30 March. Examiner 1 April 1865 p. 193.

NICHOLLS, Henry George (only son of sir George Nicholls, K.C.B. 1781–1865). b. 1825; educ. at Trinity coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Dean Forest 1847 to death; author of The forest of Dean 1858; The personalities of the forest of Dean 1863; Iron making in the olden times as instanced in the ancient mines, forges and furnaces of the forest of Dean 1866. d. 26 Porchester terrace, London 1 Jany. 1867.

NICHOLLS, James. b. Norfolk; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1852; M.R.C.P. 1861; medical adviser to Albert Life assurance society; author of Notes on Shakespeare, 2 parts 1861–2; and of papers in The Lancet. d. 13 Saville row, London 2 Jany. 1870.

NICHOLLS, James Fawckner (son of a builder at Sidmouth, Devon). b. Sidmouth 26 May 1818; a draper at Benwick in the Isle of Ely 1835; kept a school at Ramsay; traveller to a firm of paper-stainers at Manchester; a paper-stainer at Bristol 1860–8; city librarian of Bristol 1868 to death; the old city library was extended into three free libraries; F.S.A. 1876; author of The remarkable life, adventures, and discoveries of Sebastian Cabot 1869; How to see Bristol, a guide for the excursionist, the naturalist, the archæologist, and the man of business 1874, 2 ed. 1877; Bristol, past and present, an illustrated history of Bristol and its neighbourhood, 2 parts 1881–2. d. Goodwick, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire 19 Sept. 1883. Biograph Nov. 1881 pp. 493–7.

NICHOLLS, John Ashton (only child of Benjamin Nicholls). b. Grosvenor st. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 25 March 1823; ed. at Manchester New college 1840–4; a life member of British Association June 1842; F.R.A.S. June 1849; entered his father’s business 1844; secretary to the Ancoats Lyceum, organised classes and delivered courses of lectures; helped to form the Unitarian home missionary board 1854, one of the first secretaries; chairman of directors of Manchester Athenæum 1856. d. of low fever at Eagley house, Manchester 18 Sept. 1859. In memoriam, a selection from the letters of J. A. Nicholls, privately printed (1862); Christian Reformer (1859) 639 et seq.; Wade’s Rise of nonconformity in Manchester (1880) 64 et seq.

Note.—There is a tablet to his memory in Cross street chapel, Manchester; a granite obelisk in Great Ancoat st. was erected in his honour by the working men of Manchester July 1860. His parents devoted over £100,000 to the erection and endowment of an orphanage, the Nicholls hospital in Hyde road, as a memorial of their son.

NICHOLS, James. b. Washington, Durham 6 April 1785; worked in a factory at Holbeck 1793–7; ed. at Leeds gr. sch.; a Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Dutch scholar; tutor in a gentleman’s family; printer and bookseller at Briggate, Leeds; edited the Leeds Literary Observer, vol. 1 Jany. to Sept. 1819; printer at 22 Warwick sq. Newgate st. London 1820–32, and at 45 and 46 Hoxton sq. 1832 to death; a friend of Southey, Tomline, and Wordsworth; translated The works of Jacob Arminius 1825–75, 3 vols., vols. 1 and 2 by J. Nichols, vol. 3 by W. Nichols; edited Jeremiah and Lamentations by B. Blayney, 3 ed. 1836; The history of the university of Cambridge by T. Fuller 1840; The morning exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles by S. Annesley 1844; The divine legation of Moses by W. Warburton 1846; The poetical works of James Thomson 1849; The complete works of Dr. Edward Young 1854, 2 vols.; Poems by S. Wesley the younger 1862; The church history of Britain by T. Fuller 1868; author of Calvinism and Arminianism compared 1824. d. 45 Hoxton sq. London 26 Nov. 1861. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 503–6; Athenæum 30 Nov. 1861 p. 705, and 7 Dec. p. 769; Watchman 27 Nov. 1861 p. 391; Two letters from Holland, addressed to the translator of Arminius by A. D. A. V. D. Hoeven (1826).

NICHOLS, John Bowyer (eld. son of John Nichols, printer and author 1745–1826). b. Red Lion passage, Fleet st. London 15 July 1779; ed. at St. Paul’s school; entered his father’s printing office Sept. 1796; helped to edit Gentleman’s Magazine and contributed to it under the initials J. B. N. and N. R. S.; sole proprietor of the Gent. Mag. 1833, sold it to John Henry Parker June 1856; edited with Richard Gough vol. 4 of Hutchins’s History of Dorset 1815; partner in firm of J. Nichols, son & Bentley, printers 25 Parliament st. Westminster to death; a registrar of royal literary fund 1821; master of the Stationers’ company 1850; printed nearly all the county histories published 1801–50; F.L.S. 1812; F.S.A. 1818, printer to the society 1824 to death; author of A brief account of the guildhall of the city of London 1819; Account of the royal hospital and collegiate church of St. Katherine, near the Tower 1824; Historical notices of Fonthill abbey, Wiltshire 1836; Catalogue of the Hoare library at Stourhead, co. Wilts. 1840; edited J. Cradock’s Memoirs, vols. 3 and 4 1828; J. T. Smith’s Cries of London 1839; R. Yates’s History of the abbey of St. Edmunds, Bury, 2 ed. 1843; and vols. 7 and 8 of his father’s Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century 1848–56. d. Hanger Oak, Ealing 19 Oct. 1863. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 24 Oct., bust of him by W. Behnes exhibited at the R.A. 1858, his library was sold at Sotheby’s for £6,175, May 1865. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 113–4.

NICHOLS, John Gough (eld. child of the preceding). b. Red Lion passage, Fleet st. London 22 May 1806; ed. at Lewisham 1814–6, and at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1817–24; entered his father’s printing office 1824; completed and edited his grandfather John Nichols’s Progresses of king James the first, 4 vols. 1828; joint editor of Gent. Mag. 1828–51, sole editor 1851–6, contributed many essays and compiled the obituary notices; F.S.A. 3 Dec. 1835; a founder of the Camden Society 1838, edited many of its publications and printed A descriptive catalogue of the works of the Camden society 1862, new ed. 1872; printed Hoare’s History of modern Wiltshire, 6 vols. 1822–44, in which he wrote An account of the hundred of Alderbury 1837; edited Collectanea topographica et genealogica, 8 vols. 1834–43; The typographer and genealogist, 3 vols. 1846–8; founded the Herald and Genealogist 1863, edited vols. 1–8 1863–74; founded the Register and magazine of biography Jany. 1869, which ceased after 12 monthly numbers; author of Autographs of royal, noble, learned, and remarkable personages, from Richard II to Charles II 1829; London pageants 1831, 2 ed. 1837; Description of the church of St. Mary, Warwick, and of the Beauchamp chapel, London 1838; edited books for the Roxburgh club 1857–60. d. Holmwood park, near Dorking, Surrey 14 Nov. 1873, his library was sold by Sotheby Dec. 1874 for £2,195. Memoir of J. G. Nichols by R. C. Nichols (1874) portrait; Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries vi 193–6 (1873–76); Bigmore and Wyman’s Bibliography of printing ii 76–7 (1884).

NICHOLS, Robert Cradock (brother of preceding). b. 1824; printer 25 Parliament st. London; printer of the house of commons votes; F.S.A. 23 Feb. 1854; F.R.G.S.; proprietor of Highley manor, Balcombe, Sussex; edited for the Roxburghe club A fragment of Partonope of Blois 1873; author of The passage of the Col de la Temple and of the Col de l’Echauda, printed in Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ii 183–97 (1862; resided Highley manor, and 5 Sussex place, Hyde park. d. 26 May 1892, will proved 21 July, personal estate £171,000.

NICHOLS, William. Barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1818; commissioner for relief of insolvent debtors 29 June 1860; one of registrars of Manchester court of bankruptcy 21 July 1862; judge of county courts, circuit 21, Warwickshire 22 Oct. 1862 to death. d. Mentone in Savoy 29 Dec. 1864.

NICHOLS, William Luke (eld. son of Luke Nichols of Gosport, Hants, merchant). b. Gosport 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; C. of Keynsham, Somerset 1825; C. of Bedminster, near Bristol; minister of St. James’s, Bath 1 Feb. 1834 to 31 March 1839; V. of Trinity church, Bath 1839–40; R. of Buckland Monachorum, near Plymouth 1846–51; R. D. of Tavistock 1849–51; F.S.A. 2 Feb. 1865; had a fine library; resided at the Woodlands, Somerset from 1870; author of Horæ Romanæ or a visit to a Roman villa, Bath 1838; The Quantocks and their associations, Bath 1873, 2 ed. 1891 with portrait; edited Remains of the Rev. Francis Kilvert 1866; left by his will to parish of Grosport funds for completion of a campanile, which cost with the bells £2,500. d. the Woodlands, midway between Nether Stowey and Alfoxden, Somerset 25 Sept. 1889. bur. Gosport churchyard 1 Oct. Peach’s Historic houses in Bath (1884) pp. 7, 8, 9, 58; The Bath Chronicle 3 Oct. 1889 p. 3, 10 Oct. p. 3.

NICHOLSON, Alfred. b. 1822; a player on the oboe; composer of The Belvoir polka 1852; That day, a song 1854. d. Leicester 29 Aug. 1870.

NICHOLSON, Brinsley (eld. son of Brinsley Nicholson, surgeon 42 foot, d. 1857–9). b. Fort George, Scotland 1824; entered Edinb. univ. 1841, M.D. 1845; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1845; assistant surgeon in the army 25 Sept. 1846; assistant surgeon in rifle corps 27 June 1851; surgeon 9 foot 23 Oct. 1857 to 16 Dec. 1859; surgeon major at Cork 25 Sept. 1866, retired with hon. rank of deputy inspector general 18 Nov. 1871; served in the Kaffir wars 1853–4, the war in China 1860, and the Maori war in New Zealand 1864; edited for the New Shakspeare society the first folio and the first quarto of Henry the Fifth 1875, and the Parallel texts of Henry the Fifth 1877; reprinted Reginald Scot’s The discoverie of witchcraft 1886; edited The best plays of Ben Jonson, 2 vols. 1893; his edition of Donne’s Poems was completed for the Muses’ Library 1895. d. Surrenden lodge, Queen’s road, South Norwood, Surrey 14 Sept. 1892.

NICHOLSON, Cornelius (his mother was postmistress of Ambleside 50 years). b. Ambleside 14 March 1804; with John Hudson a bookseller and printer Sept. 1825; established a paper manufactory at Burneside 1832, sold the business 1845; with Thomas Gough founded Kendal natural history and scientific soc. 1836 and was hon. sec; aided in forming Kentmere reservoir; a pioneer of railways in the North 1836 etc.; chief agent in forming Kendal gas and water co. 1846; mayor of Kendal 1845–6; lost his money by French revolution of 1848; managing director in London of Great Indian peninsular railway 1848–57; F.G.S. 1849; received freedom of city of London 10 Oct. 1856; chairman of Gas meter co. to 1877; resided at Muswell Hill from 1858, and at Ashleigh, Ventnor from Sept. 1879; visited Russia 1862 and 1863; author of The annals of Kendal 1835, 2 ed. 1861 with portrait; On the mental, moral, and social progress exhibited in the present half-expired century 1855; The Roman station, Alauna 1860; Lord Robert de Clifford, where was he buried 1862; History of the three royal charters of Kendal 1875; Scraps of history of the northern suburbs of London 1879; An account of Roman villa near Brading, Isle of Wight 1880. d. Ashleigh, Ventnor 5 July 1889. Cornelia Nicholson’s A well spent life, memoir of C. Nicholson (1890) portrait.

NICHOLSON, Edward Chambers (7 son of Robert Nicholson of Lincoln and Maidenhead). b. Lincoln Jany. 1827; educ. Uxbridge; with a druggist at Andover; with Lloyd Bullock in Conduit st. London; one of first students of Royal college of chemistry Oct. 1845–50; F.C.S. 1848; with Frederick Abel assisted professor von A. W. Hofman in his researches in organic chemistry 1845; for Fothergill & Co. Aberdare investigated the chemistry of iron making 1850; with Simpson and Maule started a chemical manufactory at Walworth, London 1853; introduced improvements in manufacture of pyrogallol, ether and collodion; built a factory at Hackney Wick for production of aniline and coal-tar colours which acquired great importance and became an important industry; discovered the arsenic acid process of manufacturing magenta 1860; produced chrysaniline yellow, the lower phenylated products of rosaniline, etc.; retired from business. d. of cancer Carlton house, Herne hill, Surrey 23 Oct. 1890. The Times 27 Oct. 1890 p. 10; Journal of Chemical Soc. i 464–5 (1891).

NICHOLSON, George. b. Wheelgate, Malton 31 Oct. 1787; instructor in art to Fitzwilliam family at Castle Howard, Malton; resided Woodhouse Moor, Leeds; painter in oil and water colours, etcher in copper, engraver and lithographer; painted Tobit and the angel; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 3 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk street 1831–2; published six etchings of Roche abbey, Yorkshire. Malton 1824; Plas Newydd 1824. d. Filey, Yorkshire 7 June 1878. bur. Malton old church W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 90–2 (1890).

NICHOLSON, Henry Joseph Boone (son of John Payler Nicholson, rector of St. Albans, d. 1817). b. Lisson grove, Middlesex April 1795; educ. Marlowe, Hemel Hempstead, and Magdalen hall, Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1835, D.D. 1839; F.S.A. 14 April 1853; F.R.S.A.; domestic chaplain to earl of Mexborough; domestic chaplain to duke of Clarence March 1826; R. of St. Albans 1835 to death; rural dean of St. Albans 1846 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1861 to death; proctor for the diocese in convocation Aug. 1865; member of Numismatic soc. 1861; had a collection of local coins; author of Some account of relics at Cologne, considered to be part of the body of St. Alban, proto-martyr 1851; The abbey of St. Alban 1851, 2 ed. 1856. d. St. Albans 27 July 1866. bur. St. Albans abbey 3 Aug. G.M. ii 411 (1866); Numismatic Chronicle vii 12 (1867).

NICHOLSON, John (eld. son of Alexander Nicholson of Dublin, physician, d. 1830). b. Dublin 11 Dec. 1821; ed. at Dungannon college; ensign Bengal army 24 Feb. 1839; ensign 27 Bengal N.I. Dec. 1839, adjutant 31 May 1843; defended Ghuzni against the Afghans Dec. 1841, surrendered and was imprisoned; brevet major 7 June 1849 for his services in the second Sikh war 1848–9; an administrative officer at Bunnoo 1851–6, where he reduced to order the most ignorant and bloodthirsty people in the Punjab; a brotherhood of fakeers in Hazara commenced the worship of Nikkul Seyn (J. Nicholson) in 1848, this sect lasted till 1858; deputy comr. at Peshaware 1856; commanded the Punjab movable column with rank of brigadier general 22 June 1857; defeated the rebels at Trimmu Ghaut 12 July; marched into the camp at Delhi 14 Aug.; defeated the rebels near Delhi 25 Aug.; commanded the main storming party in the assault of Delhi 14 Sept., when he was shot through the chest. d. Delhi 23 Sept. 1857. bur. in new burial ground in front of the Kashmir Gate. J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers i 417–91 (1867); R. G. Wilberforce’s An unrecorded chapter of the Indian mutiny (1894), dedicated ‘To the memory of John Nicholson,’ contains a view of his grave; I.L.N. xxxi 426, 564 (1857) portrait; Reynold’s Miscellany xix 349 (1858) portrait; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 329–31.

NICHOLSON, John (son of a carrier between Dumfries and Galloway, and brother of Wm. Nicholson, the Galloway poet 1782–1849). b. in parish of Tongland, Kirkcudbright 1777; a handloom weaver; enlisted in the Scots Greys; publisher at Kirkcudbright to death; proprietor of the Stewartey Times. d. Kirkcudbright 11 Sept. 1866, left a son a bookseller at Kirkcudbright. M. M. Harper’s Rambles in Galloway (1876) 64–6.

NICHOLSON, John (1 son of rev. Mark Nicholson, president of Codrington college, Barbadoes, d. 1838). b. Barbadoes 1809; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; studied oriental languages under professor G. H. A. von Ewald in Germany; Ph.D. of univ. of Tübingen 1840; settled at Penrith in 1840; spent his life in studying Eastern languages; a member of the Oriental soc. 40 years; contributed to J. Kitto’s Cyclopædia of Biblical literature 1843–5; translated G. H. A. von Ewald’s A grammar of the Hebrew language of the Old Testament 1836; An account of the establishment of the Fatemite dynasty in Africa by Ali ibn Husain ibn Ali 1840. d. Penrith Dec. 1886. The Times 9 Dec. 1886 p. 7.

NICHOLSON, John. b. 1829 or 1830; assistant librarian in library of society of Lincoln’s Inn, London 1843, librarian 11 Dec. 1877 to death; author of Catalogue of the Mendham collection, being a selection of books and pamphlets from the library of the late rev. Joseph Mendham 1871 and Supplement 1874; Catalogue of the printed books in the library of the hon. society of Lincoln’s Inn, Supplementary volume containing the additions from 1859–90, 1890. d. suddenly of heart disease at his residence 228 Peckham rye, London 24 July 1894. bur. Forest hill, cemet. 28 July.

NICHOLSON, Joshua (son of Joshua Nicholson). b. Luddenden Foot, near Halifax 26 Oct. 1812; apprenticed to a draper at Bradford; resided at Leek, Staffs. 1837 to death, and travelled over the United Kingdom for the silk manufacturing firm of J. & J. Brough & Co. of Leek many years, admitted by them as partner, title of firm being changed to J. & J. Brough, Nicholson & Co., he became the head of the firm which he made the most important house in the trade; president of North Staffordshire Liberal association many years; built the Nicholson Institute at Leek, completed 1884 at cost of £30,000, the library contains 8,000 volumes, and 350 students attend the schools of art, science and technology. d. Stockwell house, Leek 24 Aug. 1885. W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 118–9 (1890) portrait.

NICHOLSON, Sir Lothian (3 son of George Thomas Nicholson of Waverley abbey, Surrey). b. Ham Common, Surrey 19 Jany. 1827; ed. at R.M. academy, Woolwich 1844–6; 2 lieut. R.E. 6 Aug. 1846, colonel 20 July 1866, colonel commandant 28 June 1890 to death; served in Crimean war July 1855 to June 1856, and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; granted distinguished service reward 3 March 1881; commanded the R.E. in the London district 1861–6, and at Gibraltar 1866–8; assistant A G. of R.E. in Ireland 1868–70; commanded the R.E. at Shorncliffe 27 Jany. 1872 to 1 Oct. 1878; lieutenant governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1878 to 30 Sept. 1883; inspector general of fortifications and of the R.E. 8 July 1886 to 25 March 1891; general 5 May 1888; governor and commander-in-chief of Gibraltar 26 March 1891 to death; C.B. 14 May 1859, K.C.B. 21 June 1887. d. The Convent, Gibraltar 27 June 1893. I.L.N. 8 July 1893 p. 30 portrait.

NICHOLSON, Nancy (only dau. of rev. John Jackson, vicar of Drax, Yorkshire, d. 1810). b. Drax 3 May 1787; m. Oct. 1811 rev. John Nicholson, formerly an assistant in Mr. Jackson’s school at Drax, then vicar of Drax 1810 and master of the grammar school, d. 1850; separated from her husband Nov. 1814; a great termagant, very eccentric, dishonest and a miser; was burnt in effigy at Asselby, near Howden, Yorkshire 1850; joined the church of Rome 1850 and again left it on being asked for a subscription. d. Asselby 6 Aug. 1854, leaving considerable property to her relations. Life of Nancy Nicholson; S. B. Gould’s Yorkshire Oddities ii 25–95 (1874).

NICHOLSON, Nathaniel Alexander (2 son of John Armytage Nicholson of Dublin). Matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 26 Oct. 1843 aged 16; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1858; acted in Frank Talfourd’s burlesque Macbeth travestie at Oxford 17 June 1847; author of The science of exchanges 1861, 4 ed. 1873; E pur si muove 1866; Observations on coinage, seignorage, etc. 1868, 3 ed. 1869; Matter and motion 1870; A shilling’s worth of political economy 1871; resided at 2 Oakland villas, Rathgar, near Dublin. d. 15 Feb. 1874.

NICHOLSON, Renton. b. Hackney road, London 4 April 1809; ed. at Henry Butter’s school, Islington; apprenticed to a pawnbroker 1821–4; employed by various pawnbrokers until 1830; a jeweller at 99 Quadrant, Regent st. about March 1830, became insolvent Nov. 1831; kept a cigar shop Warwick st. Regent st.; a wine merchant in Leicester place, bankrupt 22 April 1836; edited a weekly paper of fast life, entitled The Town 156 numbers 3 June 1837 to 23 May 1840; started with Joseph Last and Charles Pitcher The Crown, a weekly paper supporting the beer-sellers, which ran to 42 numbers 28 June 1838 to 14 April 1839; opened with T. B. Simpson The Garrick’s head and Town hotel 27 Bow st. Covent Garden 1841, where he established 8 March 1841 the Judge and jury society, over which he presided as ‘The Lord Chief Baron’; gave a three days’ fête at Cremorne Gardens 31 July and 1–2 Aug. 1843, and another fête at Easter 1844; had refreshment booths on race courses and dancing booths at fairs; removed the Judge and jury society to the Coal Hole tavern, Fountain court 103 Strand 1844; landlord of The Garrick’s Head 1847–9, where he introduced the poses plastiques 1847, he presided there till July 1851; rented the Justices’ tavern, Bow st. 1849 or 1850; landlord of the Coal Hole tavern July 1851 to 1856; presided at the Cider Cellar tavern 20 Maiden lane, Covent Garden 16 Jany. 1858 to death; was insolvent 6 Oct. 1849 and again 23 Feb. 1856; proprietor and editor of Illustrated London Life 25 numbers 1843; author of Boxing, with a chronology of the ring 1837; Cockney adventures 1838; Owen Swift’s Handbook of boxing 1840 anon; Miscellaneous writings of the lord chief baron, in monthly numbers, part 1 May 1849 with portrait; Nicholson’s Noctes, or nights and sights of London, 11 numbers 1852; Dombey and daughter, a moral fiction 1858. d. Gordon tavern, 3 Piazza, Covent Garden, London 18 May 1861. bur. Brompton cemet. 22 May. The lord chief baron Nicholson, an autobiography (1860) portrait; C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces (1891) 103–8 portrait; Notes and Queries vi 477 (1870), vii 18, 286, 327 (1871), iii 3–5 (1893); Vizetelly’s Glances back i 168–70 (1893); The Era 26 May 1861 p. 7.

Note.—Views of the Judge and Jury club are in The Bachelor’s guide to life in London, p. 8, and in The Illust. Sporting News 21 May 1864, pp. 129, 133. A view of the Garrick’s Head booth at Epsom is in Illustrated London Life 28 May 1843, p. 126, and a view of Nicholson’s Parlour at the Garrick’s Head is in the same paper 11 June p. 161.

The last scene of Frank Talfourd’s burlesque Shylock, produced at Olympic theatre 4 July 1853, represented the Judge and Jury society, in which Charles Bender, made up like Nicholson, opened the proceedings by calling ‘Waiter a glass of brandy and water and & cigar.’ The Society is referred to in R. H. Barham’s Ingoldsby Legends, 18 ed. 1860 in The Ghost, vol. ii, p. 296 as follows—

It more resembled one of later date

And tenfold talent, as I’m told, in Bow st.,

Where kindlier souls do congregate;

And though there are who deem that same a low street,

Yet I’m assured, for frolicsome debate

And genuine humour it’s surpassed by no street,

When the ‘Chief Baron’ enters and assumes

To rule o’er mimic Thesigers and Broughams.

NICHOLSON, Robert Lawrance (only son of Robert Lawrance Nicholson of Cambridge). Author of Lady Nell and other poems. d. Neuilly, near Paris 18 March 1880.

NICHOLSON, Thomas. b. Hunslet, near Leeds 1805; a wire worker in Manchester; a self taught French scholar; gave instruction in French at the Ancoats lyceum; wrote in magazines and newspapers; author of Visions of the muse, poems, and the Gallic lovers, a tale 1828; A peal for the people 1849; The warehouse boy of Manchester 1852; The thunderstorm 1857; The miser’s will, MS. 1863; some of his poems are in John Harland’s Lancashire Lyrics 1866, and others are in Gems of thought. d. Woodhouse, Lancashire Dec. 1863. R. W. Proctor’s Memorials of bygone Manchester (1880) 207–9.

NICHOLSON, Thomas. b. 12 March 1777; solicitor at Hertford 1803–24; town clerk of Hertford; under-sheriff for Herts. 1820–4; a barrister in Tasmania and comr. for investigating claims to grants of land. d. Hawkswell, near Bedale, Yorkshire 9 Sept. 1878. Solicitors’ Journal 21 Sept. 1878 p. 888.

NICHOLSON, Thomas William. Lieutenant 55 foot 11 Oct. 1805, major 12 June 1839; placed on h.p. with rank of lieut. col. 28 June 1839; served in the campaign of 1814 in Holland, severely wounded at storming of Bergen-op-Zoom; lieut. col. 88 foot 31 Dec. 1841, but sold out same day; K.H. 1835. d. 1883.

NICHOLSON, William (son of Miles Nicholson, farmer). b. Tretting Mill, Lamplough, Cumberland 27 Feb. 1816; went to Melbourne Oct. 1841, kept a grocer’s shop there, which became the mercantile firm of W. Nicholson & Co. of Flinders street; member of the city council for Latrobe ward 1848–52, alderman 1850, mayor 9 Nov. 1850; member for North Bourke in the legislative council Oct. 1852; moved a resolution that any electoral act should be based upon the principle of voting by ballot 18 Dec. 1855, which he carried against the ministry by eight votes; went to England 1856, became known as the ‘Father of the ballot’; member of legislative assembly for Murray Jany. 1859, and for Sandridge Aug. 1859; chief secretary 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; settled the land question by the Land act of 1860; chairman of Melbourne chamber of commerce 1859. d. St. Hilda, Melbourne 10 March 1865, portrait in council chamber of Melbourne town-hall. Heaton’s Australian dictionary (1879) 153, part ii 158.

NICHOLSON, William Adams (son of James Nicholson, a carpenter). b. Southwell, Notts. 8 Aug. 1803; articled to J. B. Papworth of London, architect July 1821–4; architect at Lincoln 1828 to death; partner with Goddard 1839–46; designed the churches at Glandford-Brigg, at Wragby, and at Kirmond; restored many churches; designed Worsborough hall, Yorkshire, the castle of Bayons manor, and Elkington hall near Louth; designed the town-hall at Mansfield; superintended rebuilding of village of Blankney, near Lincoln, erected the Wesleyan chapel, Lincoln 1837, and the corn exchange 1847; F.R.I.B.A. d. Boston, Lincs. 8 April 1853. bur. churchyard of St. Swithin, Lincoln. Dictionary of architecture vi 29 (1881).

NICHOLSON, William Norris (eld. son of Isaac Nicholson of Clapham common, Surrey). b. 1815; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; rowed in the first match against the Leander club 9 June 1837, and again in 1844; barrister L.I. 11 June 1841; a visitor in lunacy 1860 to 1877; master in lunacy, with salary of £2,000, 1877 to death; an active member of Marylebone cricket club; author of A statement of the case of the deposed Rajah of Sattara 1845. d. 43 Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 17 Jany. 1889. Law Times 23 Feb. 1889 p. 322.

NICKINSON, John (son of a Chelsea pensioner). b. London 1808; a drummer boy in 24 foot 1823, a sergeant 1825, bought his discharge 1830; first appeared on the stage at Albany, New York 6 Oct. 1830; played engagements at the Franklin, Park, and Olympic theatres, New York; the original Mr. Dombey in John Brougham’s play Dombey and Son at Burton’s theatre, New York 1848; played Haversac in Napoleon’s Old Guard, Monsieur Jacques, and other character parts in the country; went to Canada with a company of his own 1852; lessee of the royal Lyceum theatre, Toronto 1852–8; stage manager at Pike’s opera house Cincinnati to death. d. suddenly in a drug store at Cincinnati 9 Feb. 1864. H. P. Phelps’s Players of a century, Albany (1880) 149, 204, 206, 241, 257, 259.

NICKLE, Sir Robert (son of Robert Nicholl of the 17 dragoons, who changed his name to Nickle). b. at sea 12 Aug. 1786; ensign loyal Durham fencibles 16 Dec. 1798; ensign 60 foot 22 Jany. 1801; ensign 15 foot 19 May 1801, lieut. 26 Jany. 1802; lieut. 8 garrison brigade 1803; lieut. 88 foot 4 Aug. 1804, major 28 Nov. 1822; led the forlorn hope at Buenos Ayres 7 July 1807, when severely wounded; served through the Peninsular war, present at 9 battles, severely wounded at Toulouse; served in the American war 1814; lieut. col. 36 foot 15 June 1830 to 22 Aug. 1834; acting governor of St. Christopher 14 July 1832 to March 1833; served in Canadian rebellion 1838, when he raised several volunteer forces; colonel on h.p. 29 Aug. 1843; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commanded the forces in Australia 1853 to death; K.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. d. Jolimont, Melbourne 26 May 1855.

NICOL, Emma (eld. dau. of Mrs. Nicol, actress, who d. about 1834). b. 1801; appeared at Edinburgh as a dancer 2 May 1808; played at the Royal or Minor theatre, Edinb. 1808–24; played Flora in The Wonder at Drury Lane 9 Nov. 1824, acted there till 1829, then at Surrey theatre 1830–1; played old-women parts at T.R. Edinb. 1834–59; played Mrs. Macleary in Waverley 18 Sept. 1852, and Marjory in The heart of Midlothian 4 Oct. 1852; was the original hon. Mrs. Falconer in Ebsworth’s comedy £150,000, 1 Sept. 1854, and Matty Hepburn in Ballantine’s Gaberlunzie Man 7 June 1858; played Mrs. Major de Boots in Coyne’s Everybody’s Friend at New Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 25 June 1859, and Queen Elizabeth in the burlesque of Kenilworth 6 Aug. 1859; made her last appearance 31 May 1862 as the Hostess in The Honeymoon; her best parts were Meg in Twas I, and Miss Lucretia Mactab in The poor gentleman. d. London Nov. 1877. J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of the Edinburgh stage (1888) 361, 476.

NICOL, Henry. Philologist; author of An account of M. Gaston Paris’ method of editing in his Vie de Saint Alexis 1874. d. Algiers 30 Dec. 1880.

NICOL, James (son of James Nicol, minister of Traquair, Peebleshire, and poet 1769–1819). b. Traquair manse 12 Aug. 1810; entered univ. of Edinb. 1825; studied geology at univs. of Bonn and Berlin; a clerk in Geological society of London 1840, assistant secretary to the society 1847–9; professor of geology in Queen’s college, Cork 1849–53; professor of civil and natural history in Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen 1853–60; professor of natural history in univ. of Aberdeen 1860–78; F.G.S. 1847; F.R.S. Edinb. 1847; the first to perceive the true relations of the rock-masses in the Highlands of Scotland; author of Guide to the geology of Scotland 1844; Introductory book of the sciences 1844, 9 ed. 1872; Manual of mineralogy 1849; Elements of mineralogy 1858, 2 ed. 1873; The geology and survey of the North of Scotland 1866, and of 18 papers on geological subjects. d. London 8 April 1879. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvi 33–6 (1880).

NICOL, James Dyce (only son of W. Nicol, M.D.) b. Stonehaven 13 Aug. 1805; partner in firm of Nicol & Co. Bombay to 1844; M.P. Kincardineshire 17 July 1865 to death; F.R.G.S. d. 13 Hyde park terrace, London 16 Nov. 1872. I.L.N. lxi 503 (1872).

NICOL, John. b. Tain, Rossshire 1846; with Strahan & Co.; manager for Isbister & Co. London, and exercising a literary supervision over their publications; sub-editor of Contemporary Review; while staying at Shandon homœopathic establishment found drowned in the Gaerloch, Clyde river 11 Feb. 1891.

NICOL, William (eld. son of James Nicol, collector of customs, Banff, Scotland). b. 1790; educ. Aberdeen; served in medical service of H.E.I.C. 1810–16; a merchant at Bombay 1816; contested Youghal 8 Aug. 1837; M.P. Dover 1859–65. d. 10 Ashley place, Victoria st. Westminster 28 July 1879.

NICOLAS, John Toup (eld. child of John Harris Nicolas 1758–1844, lieutenant in the navy). b. Withen, near Helston, Cornwall 22 Feb. 1788; entered navy 1799; commander of the Pilot, brig in the Mediterranean 1810–16, where he captured or destroyed many of the enemy’s vessels; captain 26 Aug. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815; commanded the Egeria, frigate on the Newfoundland station 1820–2, the Hercules, 74 guns on the Lisbon station 1837–9, the Belle-Isle in the Channel and Mediterranean 1839–41, and the Vindictive on the East India station 1841–4; R.A. 30 Dec. 1850; superintendent of victualling yard Plymouth 1 Sept. 1847 to 5 Feb. 1850; received cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit from King of Naples Oct. 1815, knight commander of the order April 1816; K.H. 1 Jany. 1834; author of An inquiry into the causes which have led to our late naval disasters 1814; A letter to rear admiral Du Petit Thouars on the late events at Otaheite, Papeete 1843. d. Plymouth 1 April 1851. bur. St. Martin’s ch. by Looe 4 April. James’s Naval history v 257–8, 341–2 (1859); Marshall’s Royal naval biog. viii 53; G.M. xxxv 665–6 (1851).

Note.—His son Granville Toup Nicolas b. 15 Aug. 1832, entered the navy 1848, commanded the gunboat Insolent on the China station during the Tae-ping insurrection, retired as captain 15 April 1882. d. Edinburgh 21 April 1894.

NICOLL, Donald. b. 25 April 1820; cloth manufacturer and a tailor at 114 Regent st. London with his brother Henry John Nicoll 1843–69, also at 22 Cornhill 1846–69, and at Liverpool and Manchester; wholesale clothier 1869–74; parliamentary agent 1876–85; civil engineer 1885 to death; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1849–50; contested Frome 24 Oct. 1854; M.P. Frome 1857–59; contested Frome 3 May 1859; capt. 29 North Middlesex volunteers 1864; the pioneer of underground telegraphy 1866; took out English and foreign patents for electric and telegraphic conductors, awarded medals at Great Exhibition 1851, Moscow exhibition 1872, and Vienna exhibition 1873; chairman of Poor law amendment society; president of Engineering and sanitary association; A.I C.E. 2 Dec. 1844; author of Election, a dramatic piece in two acts 1880; Publicity, an essay on advertising 1878; Health and appliances 1885; Man’s revenge: personal reminiscences with quotations from causes célèbre 1890, with portrait; resided at 14 Buckland crescent, Fitzjohn’s avenue, London. d. Folkestone 6 Sept. 1891. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 9 Sept. I.L.N. xxx 478 (1857) portrait; City Press 9 Sept. 1891 p. 5; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cviii 411–2 (1892).

NICOLL, William. b. Little Tullybeltane 1817; in a situation at Glasgow on £40 a year; a poet, his fugitive pieces are printed in Drummond’s Perthshire. d. Edinburgh 1855. bur. North Leith churchyard. P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire (1879) 333–83.

Note.—His brother Robert Nicoll b. Little Tullybeltane 7 Jany. 1814 d. 1837, was also a well known poet.

NICOLLS, Sir Edward (son of Jonathan Nicolls, surveyor of excise, Coleraine). b. Coleraine 1779; 2 lieut. R.M. 24 March 1795, with 13 volunteers captured a French armed cutter off St. Domingo 1803; at the passage of the Dardenelles 1807; at reduction of Anholt 1809; at attack on Fort Bowyer 1814; awarded a pension of £250 a year 28 Dec. 1815; major 8 May 1828, placed on h.p. 1829; major retired on full pay 15 May 1835 to death; governor of island of Ascension; commander of island of Fernando Po; awarded good service pension of £150 a year 30 June 1842; general 28 Nov. 1854; K.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. 3 Woodland’s terrace, Shooter’s hill road, Blackheath, Kent 5 Feb. 1865. G.M. xviii 644 (1865).

Note.—During his services abroad he had his left leg broken and right leg severely wounded, was shot through the body and right arm, received a severe sabre cut in the head, was bayoneted in the chest, and lost an eye in his 107th action, having received altogether 24 wounds.

NICOLLS, Gustavus. b. 1780 or 1781; 2 lieut. R.E. 4 Jany. 1795, colonel 29 July 1825; colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1851 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. at his residence, near Southampton 1 Aug. 1860.

NICOLLS, Jasper Hume (3 son of Gustavus Nicolls of Guernsey). Matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 2 June 1836, aged 17; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, D.D. 1856; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1843–8; principal of and professor of classics in Bishop’s college, Lennoxville, Lower Canada 1853 to death; author of The end and object of education, a lecture, Montreal 1857; Address to the convocation of Bishop’s college, at its annual meeting, Sherbrooke 1860. d. Aug. 1877.

NICOLSON, Alexander (son of Malcolm Nicolson of Husabost in Skye). b. Husabost 27 Sept. 1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb., B.A. 1850, hon. M.A. 1859, LL.D. 1880; one of the sub-editors of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; editor of Edinburgh Guardian 1855; edited the Daily Express for one year; contributed to the Scotsman; called to Scottish bar 1860; reported law cases for the Scottish Jurist ten years, edited it latterly; assistant comr. of education 1865 when he produced a blue book on the Western and Northern Highlands; sheriff substitute of Kirkcudbright 1872; comr. to inquire into condition of the crofters 1883; sheriff substitute of Greenock 1885–9; author of The lay of the Beanmòhr, a song of the Sudreyar 1867; edited D. Macintosh’s A collection of Gaelic proverbs 1881, 2 ed. 1882; Memoirs of Adam Black, M.P. 1885, 2 ed. 1885; he revised the Gaelic Scriptures for the soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. d. Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1893. bur. Warriston cemet. Verses by A. Nicolson with memoir by W. Smith (1893) portrait; Scottish law review ix 38–40; D. H. Edwards’s Modern Scottish poets, 3rd series (1880) 417–9.

NICOLSON, James. b. Aberdeenshire; Scott bursar of univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. 1856; Luscombe scholar of Trinity coll. Glenalmond Sept. 1854; chaplain to bishop Forbes of Brechin 1856–75; incumbent of St. Salvador, Dundee 1857 to death, raised funds and built a church which cost £10,000, 1868–74, the congregation being mostly working men; synod clerk diocese of Brechin 1863–74; dean of Brechin 1874 to death; a member of the school board; built a chapel and schoolroom dedicated to St; Martin at Dundee; author of In memoriam, a sermon after the funeral of A. P. Forbes, bishop of Brechin 1875. d. Dundee 25 Jany. 1889. Church portrait journal n.s. vi 77 (1885) portrait.

NIEMANN, Edmund John (eld. son of John Diederich Niemann, b. Minden, Westphalia, a member of Lloyd’s). b. Islington, London 1813; a clerk in Lloyd’s 1826–39; lived at High Wycombe, Bucks. 1839–48; trustee and hon. secretary of the Free Exhibition of art, Chinese gallery, Hyde Park corner 1848; exhibited 29 landscape paintings at R.A., 45 at B.I., and 40 at Suffolk st. 1844–72; many of his pictures were exhibited at opening of the Nottingham museum and art galleries 1878. d. The Glebe, Brixton hill, Surrey 15 April 1876. G. H. Shepherd’s Catalogue of the pictures painted by E. J. Niemann (1890).

NIEUWENHUYS, Christian Johannes. b. Belgium 1799; an art critic 1834; formed gallery of king of Holland 1843; naturalised in England 6 March 1846; an expert and dealer in London to death; brought many important examples of Dutch and Flemish paintings to England, which have enriched some of the best collections; author of A review of the lives and works of some of the most eminent painters 1834; Description de la galerie des tableaux de S. M. le roi des Pays-Bas, Bruxelles 1843. d. Oxford lodge, Park Side, Wimbledon, Surrey 31 Jany. 1883. Times 20 Feb. 1883 p. 10.

NIGHTINGALE, James Edward. F.S.A. 18 Feb. 1875; discovered the lost china factory of Longton hall; author of Objects of interest in the Fonthill excursion 1870; Some notice of William Herbert, first earl of Pembroke 1878; Contributions towards the history of early English porcelain 1881; Church plate of the county of Dorset 1889; The church plate of the county of Wilts 1891; resided at The Mount, Witton, Salisbury. d. at the residence of his brother-in-law 16 Alfred place west, South Kensington, London 22 Feb. 1892. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xiv 136 (1892).

NIGHTINGALE, Joseph Henry. b. 1827; dramatist; resided at Liverpool; published The Liverpool year book, edited by Lee and Nightingale 1857; Lee and Nightingale’s Telegraph guide 1858, Number i. d. 13 Coverdale road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 20 Jany. 1882. bur. Brompton cemet. 24 Jany.

NIGHTINGALE, William. b. 1799; acted as a judge of coursing in England and Scotland during many years; judged the first Waterloo cup 1857; retired 1860, when he was presented with a testimonial; a very powerful man, could lift any weight, and hold any team of horses together on the box seat; could jump the Big Cut from the Engine at Aintree; a farmer at Skibeden, near Skipton and a good judge of bullocks and sheep. d. 2 Sept. 1869, at his request a representation of a greyhound was placed on his coffin and buried with him in Gisburn ch. yard. Sporting Review Oct. 1869 pp. 242–3; H. H. Dixon’s Field and Fern, South 1865 pp. 14, 19, 24–6, portrait.

NIGHTINGALL, John (son of a trainer, d. 1890). b. 1833; apprenticed to be a jockey; with Cecil won the Cesarewitch 1868; best known as a trainer, especially of horses for the suburban meetings; trained Shifnel, winner of the Grand National steeple chase 1878, and Ilex, winner in 1890; trained for lord Calthorpe, lord Rendlesham, sir Simon Lockhart, and G. Masterman. d. Epsom 13 Nov. 1891. Baily’s Mag. lvi 425 (1891); Illust. sp. and dr. news 21 Nov. 1891 p. 331 portrait; Man of the world 25 Nov. 1891 p. 564 portrait.

NIHILL, Daniell. b. 1791; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1818; M.A. 1822; P.C. of Clunbury, Salop 1820–6; government chaplain to penitentiary, Milbank, London to 1844; P.C. of Fording, Montgomeryshire 29 Dec. 1826–44; V. of Bridgwater, Somerset 1844–8; R. of Fitz, near Shrewsbury 1848 to death; author of Suggestions on the revival of ecclesiastical assemblies in the church of England 1834, 2 ed. 1836; Prison discipline 1839; Farmer’s guide to happiness; Inconsistency, or why are churchgoers not communicants 1859; Pastoral guide to confirmation; The angels, what is taught in scripture concerning them 1852; Help to young scholars in the bible; Suggestions on the reformation of convicts. d. Fitz rectory 19 July 1867.

NIMMO, Andrew. b. Edinburgh 1817 or 1818; call boy at Edinburgh theatre, afterwards actor; assistant to John Mitchell of Bond st. London, theatrical agent to 1863; theatrical agent at 55 Wigmore st. Cavendish sq. 1863 to death. d. 55 Wigmore st. Cavendish sq. London 23 June 1872. bur. Brompton cemet. 28 June. Era 30 June 1872 p. 9.

NIMMO, Patrick. b. Dundee; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1817; served in the East Lothian cavalry some years; practiced as a physician at Dundee, first in partnership with Robert Stewart, M.D., then with Alexander Douglass, afterward alone; surgeon to Dundee royal infirmary about 1805–35; physician to Dundee lunatic asylum about 1835 to death. d. Dundee 11 July 1855.

NIMMO, William Philip. b. Edinburgh 1831; a bookseller there Dec. 1855; a publisher there to his death; published Nimmo’s Juvenile tales, Edinb. 1866; Nimmo’s Popular tales 1866. d. Minto st. Edinb. 16 April 1883.

NISBET, Sir Alexander (son of Alexander Nisbet). b. 1790 or 1791; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1812; M.D. Edinb. 1818; M.R.C.P. London 1859; entered naval medical service 1812 and served during the whole of the American war 1812–4, for which awarded a medal 1850; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855, retired 1861; granted good service pension June 1865; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 June 1873; honorary physician to the queen 1873 to death. d. Arley lodge, Lee, Kent 22 June 1874.

NISBET, Henry. b. Laurieston, Glasgow 1818; studied at Glasgow univ., relief divinity hall, Paisley, and Cheshunt college; ordained united presbyterian minister July 1840; missionary at Falelatai, Samoa 1843, at Sapapalii 1850–4; in charge of the mission seminary at Malua Dec. 1859–67, where he prepared various lectures, sermons, notes of scripture, &c. which he subsequently printed in England; D.D. Glasgow univ. 1870. d. Malua 9 May 1876. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries (1870) 149–51.

NISBET, James (son of a farmer, who became a serjeant of cavalry). b. Kelso 3 Feb. 1785; clerk to Hugh Usher, West India merchant, London 1803; a Sunday school teacher at the Scotch ch., Swallow st., London 1803; a founder of the Sunday school union 1803; collected for more than 500 charitable institutions, the amount that passed through his hands being £114,339 16s. 4d.; a freeman of city of London; bookseller in Castle st. 1809; bookseller and publisher, chiefly of books of a religious class at 21 Berners st. Oxford st.; partner with James Murray many years, on Murray’s death (at Richmond June 1862), Mr. Watson became manager of the business; publisher of some of Edward Irving’s books, and for a period one of his followers; liveryman of company of stationers 1822; helped to establish Booksellers’ provident institution 1837, president 1848; printed and distributed some religious work gratuitously; built and endowed a church and school at Kelso; published Catalogue of J. Nisbet’s Select theological circulating library 1832; Nisbet’s Series of tracts 1846–50, No. 1–22. d. 21 Berners st. London 8 Nov. 1854. J. A. Wallace’s Lessons from life of J. Nisbet (1867); Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 324–32; The first 50 years of the Sunday school by W. H. Watson (1873) 75–76.

NISBET, Robert Parry. b. Aug. 1793; ed. at Cheam and Haileybury coll.; entered Bengal civil service 30 April 1809; second assistant to collector of customs, Calcutta 1814; collector of Rungpore 1822; judge and magistrate 1826; commissioner of revenue 14th division 1829; civil and session judge, Nuddea 1837; sheriff of Wilts. 1849; M.P. Chippenham 1856–59. d. Southbroome house, Devizes 31 May 1882.

NISBET-HAMILTON, Robert Adam (eld. son of Philip Dundas, governor of Prince of Wales island, d. 8 April 1807). b. 9 Feb. 1804; educ. St. Andrews; advocate 25 Feb. 1826; M.P. Ipswich 1826–30, and 1835–7; M.P. Edinburgh 1831–2; M.P. North Lincs. 1837–57; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 1 March to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; exchanged name of Dundas for that of Christopher by R.L. 20 Jany. 1836, and that of Christopher for Nisbet-Hamilton 1855; F.R.S. 18 April 1833; succeeded to estates in Haddingtonshire through his wife lady Mary Bruce, eld. dau. of 7 earl of Elgin. d. 33 Chesham place, Belgrave sq. London 9 June 1877. Journal of jurisprudence xxi 401 (1877).

NISH, Antony. b. Newcastle Feb. 1831; visited the United States 1850; joined company of John Raynor, who brought a troupe of Christy minstrels to England 1855; organised a company of his own 1862; visited the Cape colonies, India, and Australia; musical director of the Christy minstrels, St. James’s hall, London 1867 to death; composed the music of many popular songs. d. London 3 Oct. 1874. bur. Brompton cemetery 6 Oct. Era 11 Oct. 1874 p. 9.

NIXON, Francis Russell (son of Robert Nixon, C. of Foot’s Cray, Kent 1784–1804). b. 1 Aug. 1803; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1810–22, and St. John’s coll. Oxf., probationary fellow 1822; B.A. 1827, M.A, 1841, D.D. 1842; P.C. of Plaistow, Essex; chaplain to British embassy at Naples 1833–5; P.C. of Sandgate, Kent 20 Jany. 1836; V. of Ash, next Wingham Nov. 1838; one of the six preachers in Canterbury cathedral; bishop of Tasmania 21 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1863, consecrated in Westminster abbey 24 Aug. 1842, enthroned in Hobart cath. 27 July 1843; attended the first synod of colonial bishops held in Sydney 1857; R. of Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 1864–5; author of The history of Merchant Taylors’ school 1823; Lectures on the catechism of the church of England 1843; The cruise of the Beacon, a visit to the islands in Bass’s Straits 1857. d. Villa Vignole, Lago Maggiore, North Italy 7 April 1879. Times 12 April 1879 p. 7.

NIXON, Samuel. b. 1803; began exhibiting sculpture at the R.A. 1826; employed on portrait and sepulchral sculpture for a few years from 1831; did the sculptural decorations for the Goldsmith’s hall in Foster lane, Cheapside, London; executed a statue of John Carpenter for the city of London school, and one of sir John Crosby for Crosby hall, Bishopsgate street; his chief work was the statue of Wm. IV at the end of King William st. set up Dec. 1844; exhibited 12 works at R.A., 2 at B.I., and 2 at Suffolk st. 1826–46. d. 1 Manley place, Kennington Common, London 2 Aug. 1854.

NIXON, Thomas. b. Nottingham 4 June 1815; lace maker; his first cricket match at Lord’s was Fast bowlers v. Slow bowlers 18 July 1842; a slow round-armed bowler having a twist; a bowler at Lord’s 1851–7; proprietor of Old white house inn, cricket ground and racquet court, Oxford 1856–60; introduced cork pads 1841, open pads and cane handled bats 1853; invented the balista 1862; formed a cricket ground at Chelford, Cheshire 1861, where he worked to his death. d. Chelford 20 July 1877. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii 103 (1863).

NOAD, Henry Minchin (son of Humphrey Noad). b. Shawford, near Frome, Somerset 22 June 1815; educ. Frome gr. sch.; lectured on chemistry and electricity at Bath and Bristol 1836; studied chemistry under A. W. Hofmann in the royal college of chemistry, London 1845; professor of chemistry at St. George’s hospital 1847 to death; Ph. Doc. Giessen about 1849; consulting chemist to the Ebbw Vale iron co., the Cwn Celyn, and Blaina and other iron works in South Wales; instructor in chemistry at the Panopticon in Leicester sq. London 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; author of A course of eight lectures on electricity, galvanism, magnetism, and electro-magnetism 1839, 3 ed. 1849; A manual of electricity, 2 vols. 1857; The improved induction coil 1861, 3 ed, 1868; The students text-book of electricity 1867, new ed. 1879. d. at residence of his son Henry Carden Noad, surgeon, High st. Lower Norwood, Surrey 23 July 1877. Engineer 3 Aug. 1877 pp. 70, 76–7.

NOAKE, John (son of Thomas Noake). b. Sherborne, Dorset 29 Nov. 1816; engaged on Berrow’s Worcester Journal at Worcester 1838, then on the Worcestershire Chronicle; sub-editor of the Worcester Herald to about 1874; sheriff of Worcester 1878, alderman and mayor 1879; magistrate 1882; one of hon. secretaries of Worcester Diocesan architectural and archæological society many years, presented with a testimonial on his retirement July 1892; author of The rambler in Worcestershire, notes on churches and congregations 1851–4, 2 vols.; Worcester in olden times 1849; Notes and queries for Worcestershire 1856; Worcester sects, a history of its Roman catholics and dissenters 1861; The monastery and cathedral of Worcester 1866; Noake’s guide to Worcestershire 1868; Worcestershire relics 1877; Worcestershire nuggets, by an Old Digger 1889. d. 2 St. Mary’s terrace, London road, Worcester 12 Sept. 1894. bur. Astwood road cemet. 15 Sept. Berrow’s Worcester Journal 15 Sept. 1894.

NOAKES, William. Landlord of the new Opera hotel, 27 Bow st. Covent Garden, London 1852–73, celebrated for its suppers after the theatres, this hotel was formerly known as the Garrick’s Head, the last night of its being open was 8 Nov. 1873; Noakes greatly resembled Edward Wright the comedian of the Adelphi theatre. E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii 433 (1891).

NOBBS, George Hunn (son of a marquess by the dau. of an Irish baronet). b. 16 Oct. 1799; served in royal navy Nov. 1811 to 1816; served on board an 18-gun ship belonging to the patriots in South America 1816, captured by the Spaniards and imprisoned at Callao 1817; made a lieutenant in Chilian navy 1820 for helping to cut out Spanish frigate Esmeralda at Callao 5 Nov. 1820; settled on Pitcairn Island 5 Nov. 1828, succeeded John Adams as pastor and teacher of the islanders 29 March 1829; ordained priest by bishop of London and appointed a missionary of the Society for the propagation of the gospel Oct. and Nov, 1852; relanded on Pitcairn Island 14 May 1853; the islanders under Nobbs removed to Norfolk Island 8 June 1856, where they were given a model constitution by sir W. T. Denison, governor-general of the Australian colonies. d. The Chaplaincy, Norfolk Island 5 Nov. 1884. A sermon in St. Mary’s chapel, Park st. Grosvenor square on 12 Dec. 1852 by G. H. Nobbs, with notices of Mr. Nobbs and his flock (1852) portrait; Lady Belcher’s Mutineers of the Bounty (1870) 186 et seq. portrait.

NOBLE, James (2 son of Isaac Noble, who served in the British army against the Americans, killed 1778). b. 1774; entered navy 1787; lieut. of the Agamemnon under Nelson 9 March 1796, badly wounded at Loano 25 April 1796; Nelson’s flag-lieutenant on board the Captain at battle of St. Vincent, during the battle he boarded the San Nicolas for which he was made commander 27 Feb. 1797; commanded the sea fencibles on the coast of Sussex March 1798 to 29 April 1802; captain 29 April 1802; retired R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, moved to the active list 17 Aug. 1840, V.A. 9 Nov. 1846. d. London 24 Oct. 1851. Autobiography of James Noble, privately printed about 1830.

NOBLE, John. b. Boston, Lincs. 2 May 1827; supported the Anti-Corn law league 17 years; came to London 1859 and entered for the bar; a founder of the Alliance national land and building society; founded with Washington Wilks, and others the London political union for the advocacy of manhood suffrage 1860; financial and parliamentary agent with C. F. Macdonald 1864, they promoted street railways in London, Liverpool, and Dublin, the firm being J. Noble and Co. 1865; a founder of the Financial reform union 1868; parliamentary secretary to A. Brogden, M.P. for Wednesbury 1870; secretary of the County council union 1889; lecturer to the Financial reform association 1862–5; delivered lectures on political and social subjects; author of Arbitration and a congress of nations as a substitute for war in the settlement of international disputes 1862; Fiscal legislation 1842–65, 1867; Free trade, reciprocity, and the revivers 1869; Our imports and exports 1870. d. London 17 Jany. 1892. bur. Highgate 21 Jany. John Noble’s Facts for politicians (1892), memoir pp. iii–viii portrait.

NOBLE, Joseph William (eld. son of John Noble, V. of Frisby-on-the-Wreake, Leics. d. 1840). b. Frisby-on-the-Wreake, 1799; L.S.A. 1819; M.R.C.S. 1820; M.B. Cambridge 1831; physician to Leicester general infirmary to 1856; mayor of Leicester 1858; M.P. Leicester 2 May 1859 to death. d. Malaga, Spain 6 Jany. 1861.

NOBLE, Matthew. b. Hackness, Yorkshire 1818; pupil in London of John Francis, the sculptor; exhibited 100 works, chiefly busts, at the R.A. 1845–76; executed a relievo in bronze The bridge of sighs, and another of The dream of Eugene Aram for the monument over Thomas Hood’s grave 1854; executed the Wellington monument at Manchester 1856, and a marble statue of the Prince consort nine feet high, forming part of the Albert memorial in Albert sq. Manchester 1866; executed the statues of sir John Franklin in Waterloo place 1866, sir James Outram on the Victoria embankment, London, unveiled 17 Aug. 1871, of the Queen at St. Thomas’s hospital, and of the earl of Derby in Parliament sq. 1874. d. 43 Abingdon villas, Kensington 23 June 1876. bur. Brompton cemet. his widow Frances Mary Noble granted civil list pension of £150, 10 March 1877. W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 82–3 (1890) portrait; I.L.N. lxix 37, 38, 178, (1876) portrait; Graphic xiv 12 (1876) portrait.

NOBLE, Robert Turlington (brother of J. W. Noble, bapt. Frisby 9 March 1809; educ. Oakham gr. sch. 1822–7; entered Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. Oct. 1827; B.A. 1834; migrated to Christ’s coll.; private tutor to sir Thomas Blomfield’s sons 1831–8; C. of Old Dalby, Leics. 1839–41; missionary at Masulipatam, Madras 1841 to death, where he opened a native English school for education of the upper classes 21 Nov. 1843, which was very successful. d. Masulipatam 17 Oct. 1865. J. Noble’s Memoir of R. T. Noble (1867); J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 332–6.

NOBLE, Samuel (son of Edward Noble, bookseller, d. 1784). b. London 4 March 1779; apprenticed to an engraver and practised as an architectural engraver, retired from practice 1819; became a Swedenborgian about 1799, helped to found the Society for printing and publishing the writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg 1810; chief editor of and principal writer in The intellectual repository and new Jerusalem magazine 1812–40; ordained on Whitsunday 1820; minister of the Swedenborg church in Lisle st. Leicester square, the congregation purchased Edward Irving’s chapel 15 Cross st. Hatton Garden about 1829, where he preached to his death; lost his eye sight 1848; held that our Lord’s body was not resuscitated but dissipated in the grave and replaced at the resurrection by a new and divine frame, a great controversy arose between the dissipationists and resuscitationists, and a Noble Society was formed to support his position; author of The doctrine of the scriptures respecting the divine Trinity 1821; The plenary inspiration of the scriptures asserted 1825, 2 ed. 1856; An appeal on behalf of the views of the eternal world and state held by the christians who believe that a new church is signified by the New Jerusalem 1826, 3 ed. 1855; Important doctrines of true christian religion explained 1846; The divine law of the ten commandments explained 1848; Book of Judges, sermons in explanation of first eleven chapters 1856; Eight parables explained in twenty three sermons 1857. d. London 27 Aug. 1853. bur. Highgate cemet. where is monument. S. Noble’s An appeal, 3 ed. (1855), memoir pp. v–xviii; W. White’s Life of E. Swedenborg (1867) i 230, ii 613; F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs (1872) 180–1.

NOBLE, William Blackmore. b. June 1789; entered R.N. 18 Aug. 1803 as a volunteer; wrecked off Malta 10 Aug. 1810; mate of the Lively and Bellona at the surrender of Vigo; saw boat service on north coast of Spain and in the Basque Roads for which he received a medal; present at surrender of Sebastian, medal; commanded party placing scaling ladders at storming of Fort Erie 1814; lieut. of the Charwell schooner 27 Aug. 1814; on h.p. from Sept. 1815; commander 18 June 1869. d. 16 March 1889, aged nearly 100. Memoirs of Capt. George M’Kinley.

NOBLE, William Henry (eld. son of Robert Noble, R. of Athboy, co. Meath). b. Laniskea, co. Fermanagh 14 Oct. 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; lieut. R.A. 6 March 1856, lieut. col. 1 Nov. 1882, placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; temporary M.G. 13 Oct. 1889; associate member of the ordnance select committee for carrying out ballistic and other experiments in scientific gunnery 1861–8; on the staff of the director-general of ordnance 1868, member of experimental branch of that department at Woolwich 8 Dec 1868 to 1 April 1876; staff officer of the field train of the Candahar field force in the Afghan war Nov. 1878; member of the ordnance committee 1 April 1881 to 31 March 1884; superintendent of royal gunpowder factory at Waltham abbey 1 July 1885 to death; large quantities of prismatic gunpowder were manufactured there, he patented this discovery 1886; the discovery of cordite is also largely due to him; author of Useful tables, compiled for the use of artillerymen 1874; Report of various experiments relative to the penetration of iron armour-plates by steel shot 1886; Descent of W. H. Noble from the blood royal of England 1889. d. Thrift hall, Waltham abbey 17 May 1892. I.L.N. 28 May 1892 p. 651 portrait; Daily Graphic 23 May 1892 p. 4 portrait.

NODDALL, Cornelius Thomas Augustus. b. 1812 or 1813; master attendant royal Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1 April 1858 to 1 Dec. 1864; master attendant and harbour master Deptford dockyard 1 Dec. 1864 to 14 Oct. 1867; commander 22 Feb. 1860; retired captain 14 Oct. 1867; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. St. Bernards, Torquay 22 June 1874.

NOEL, Baptist Wriothesley (youngest child of sir Gerard Noel-Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838). b. Leightmount, Scotland 16 July 1798; educ. Westminster 1810–3, and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1821; C. of Cossington, Leics.; minister of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London 1827 to 3 Dec. 1848; his anti-corn law tract A plea for the poor 1841 produced many replies; chaplain in ordinary to the queen Aug. 1841–9; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1846; preached at the Scottish church in Regent sq. London 25 March 1849; took the oaths prescribed by 52 Geo. III, cap. 155, and preached in the Weigh House chapel May 1849; publicly rebaptised by immersion in the Baptist chapel, John st. Bedford row 9 Aug. 1849, minister of the chapel 9 Aug. 1849 to 15 July 1868, when he was presented with a purse containing one thousand guineas; president of the Baptist Union 1855 and 1867; author of Meditations on sickness and old age 1837; Notes of a tour through the Midland counties of Ireland 1837; The first five centuries of the church 1839; A plea for the poor, showing how the repeal of the corn laws will affect the working classes 1841, 29th thousand 1841; Christian missions to heathen nations 1842; Sermons, 2 vols. 1859, and upwards of 50 other works. d. Stanmore, Middlesex 19 Jany. 1873. J. R. Dix’s Pulpit portraits (Boston 1854) 245–56; J. E. Ritchie’s The London pulpit, 2 ed. (1858) 147–54; Pen and ink sketches, 2 ed. (1847) 240–4; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 4th series, (1860) portrait; I.L.N. xv 141 (1849) portrait, lxii 91, 104, 106 (1873) portrait; Graphic vii 99, 100 (1873) portrait.

NOEL, Gerard Thomas (brother of preceding). b. 2 Dec. 1782; educ. Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; C. of Radwell, Herts.; C. of Rainham, Essex; hon. canon of Winchester 13 March 1834 to death; V. of Romsey, Hants. 30 Nov. 1840 to death, restored the parish church; author of A selection of psalms and hymns from the new version 1820; Arvendel, or sketches in Italy and Switzerland 1826; Sermons for the use of families 1826, 1827, 2 vols.; A brief inquiry into the prospects of the church of Christ 1828; Sermons preached at Romsey 1853. d. Romsey vicarage 24 Feb. 1851.

NOEL, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley (4 son of 1 earl of Gainsborough 1781–1866). b. 27 Aug. 1834; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1858; travelled in the East 1858–60; a member of the English Alpine club; a groom of the privy chamber to the queen 1867–71; author of Behind the veil and other poems 1863; Beatrice and other poems 1868; The red flag and other poems 1872; Livingstone in Africa, a poem 1874; The house of Ravensbury, a drama 1877; A little child’s monument 1881, an account of his own son Eric; A philosophy of immortality 1882; Songs of the heights and deeps 1885; Essays on poetry and poets 1886; A modern Faust and other poems 1888; Life of Lord Byron 1890, in the Great Writer’s series; Poor people’s Christmas, a poem 1890; edited A selection from the poems of Edmund Spenser 1887; Thomas Otway 1888 in the Mermaid series. d. in a cab on his way to the hotel at Mainz on the Rhine 26 May 1894. A. H. Miles’s Poets of the nineteenth century vi 81–146 (1893); Academy 2 June 1894 p. 456; Westminster Budget 6 June 1894 p. 31 portrait.

NOEL, Thomas (eld. son of rev. Thomas Noel, R. of Kirkby-Mallory, Leics.) b. Kirkby-Mallory 11 May 1799; educ. Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824; lived at Boyne hill, near Maidenhead many years; corresponded with Miss M. R. Mitford, who in her recollections of a literary life, i 51–5 (1852) quotes at full length his poems The pauper’s drive and A Thames voyage; author of The cottage muse 1833; Village verse 1841; Rymes and roundelays 1841, which includes The pauper’s drive, set to music by Henry Russell 1839; wrote the words of the well-known song Rocked in the cradle of the deep. d. Brighton 16 May 1861. James Payn’s Literary Recollections (1884) 87–92.

NOEL, Wriothesly Baptist (eld. son of B. W. Noel 1798–1873). b. Thorpe hall, Walthamstow, Essex 15 Aug. 1827; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1850; landed in Melbourne Nov. 1852; barrister in Victoria 21 Sept. 1854; police magistrate for county of Bourke at Melbourne 8 Jany. 1855; deputy chairman of general sessions July 1857; chief comr. of insolvent estates 28 March 1859; judge of insolvent court for Melbourne 1 Feb. 1871 to death. d. Denby road, Brighton, Melbourne 19 May 1886. Law Journal 24 July 1886 pp. 443–4.

NOLAN, Frederick (3 son of Edward Nolan of St. Peter’s, Dublin). b. Old Rathmines castle, co. Dublin 9 Feb. 1784; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1796; matric. as a gentleman commoner of Exeter coll. Oxf. 19 Nov. 1803; B.C.L. 1828, having passed for the degree in 1805, D.C.L. 1828; ordained Aug. 1806; curate of Woodford, Hackney, and St. Bennet Fink, London successively; Boyle lecturer 1814, Bampton lecturer 1833, Warburtonian lecturer 1833–6; V. of Prittlewell, Essex 25 Oct. 1822 to death; F.R.S.L. 1828; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1833; author of The romantick mythology in two parts 1809; An inquiry into the nature and extent of poetick licence 1810, under pseudonym of Nicholas Aylward Vigors, jun., Esq.; The operations of the Holy Ghost, illustrated and confirmed by scriptural authorities 1813; An inquiry into the integrity of the Greek vulgate 1815, supplement 1830; Fragments of a civick feast: by a Reformer 1819; A harmonical grammar of the principal ancient and modern languages, 2 parts 1822; Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. By Sarah Search 1855. d. Geraldstown house, co. Navan 16 Sept. 1864. bur. Navan churchyard. G.M. Dec. 1864 p. 788–91.

NOLAN, James. b. Ireland 1742; a tenant of the earl of Bessborough; his portrait taken and sent to the queen 1852; fully 6 feet in height; retained his faculties to his decease. d. Knockindrane, co. Carlow 24 April 1858, aged 115 years and 9 months. G.M. iv 680 (1858).

NOLAN, Joseph. b. Birmingham 1840; pugilist weighing 8 stone 10 pounds; beat Flanery 23 March 1857, Ensor 20 April 1858; and G. Henley 10 Aug. 1858; beat John Hicks £60 a side, 45 rounds in 85 minutes near Aldershot 15 March 1859; beat Hicks again £60 a side, 66 rounds in 2 hours and 45 minutes down the Thames 7 Feb. 1860; fought a drawn battle with Daniel Thomas for £200 a side, 20 rounds in 90 minutes near Oxford 8 April 1862; fought a drawn battle with Richard Fellowes £25 a side, 85 minutes at Four Ashes, Staffs. 16 Aug. 1864. d. at his mother’s residence, in the house in which he was born, Birmingham 29 June 1867. bur. Nechell’s Green cemet. 4 July. Illust. sporting news i 21, 37, 38 (1862) portrait, vi 441 (1867) portrait.

NOLAN, Lewis Edward (son of Babington Nolan, capt. 70 regt., vice-consul at Milan, d. 1837). b. about 1820; educ. Milan military college; a cavalry officer in the Austrian service, served in Hungary and on the Polish frontier as an officer in an Hungarian hussar regiment; ensign 4 foot 15 March 1839; cornet 15 hussars 23 April 1839, captain 8 March 1850, placed on h.p. Aug. 1854; A.D.C. to sir G. F. Berkeley in Madras 1840; extra A.D.C. to sir Henry Pottinger, governor of Madras 1840; riding master to 15 hussars in India; the most noted horseman of his day; spoke 5 European languages and several Indian dialects; A.D.C. to Richard Airey, Q.M.G. in the Crimea 1854; present at battle of the Alma; author of System of training cavalry horses. By Kenner Garrard 1853. Cavalry, its history and tactics 1853; The training of cavalry remount horses 1861. killed at battle of Balaklava in the Crimea 25 Oct. 1854. G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 40–3; I.L.N. xxv 528 (1854) portrait, xxviii 462 (1856) view of tombstone at Maidstone; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea, vols. ii, iii, and v (1877).

Note.—At Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 he brought an order from lord Raglan to lord Lucan, desiring him to prevent the Russians from carrying away some English guns. This order being misunderstood led to the charge of the light brigade and a great waste of life.

NOLAN, Thomas. b. 1809; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, D.D. 1857; C. of St. Peter’s, Stockport 1837; V. of St. Barnabas, Liverpool 1841–9; minister of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London 1849–54; V. of Acton, Cheshire 1854–7; V. of St. Peter’s, Regent sq. London 1857–73; V. of St. Saviours, Paddington 1873 to death; author of The pastor’s account and the pastor’s duty, two sermons 1850; The christian sabbath and the Sydenham palace 1854; The vicarious sacrifice of Christ the only foundation for the sinner’s hope, the only motive to the christian’s holiness 1860. d. 22 Warrington crescent, London 19 Nov. 1882. Guardian 22 Nov. 1882 p. 1639.

NOLDWRITT, John Spencer. b. 1815; custom house agent at Custom house court, Beer lane, London 1841, afterwards at 5 Water lane, Great Tower st.; hon. sec. of Camberwell lecture hall, library and reading-room in Carter st. Walworth, founded 31 March 1845; F.R.A.S.; F.R.G.S. d. 44 Benhill road, Brunswick sq. Camberwell 1 Jany. 1891. Blanch’s Camberwell (1877) 358–9.

NOLLOTH, Matthew Stainton. b. 1810; entered navy 27 Aug. 1824; lieut. 28 June 1838; as senior lieut. of the Childers he distinguished himself in the operations in the Yang-tse-Kiang in 1843; captain 21 Feb. 1856, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 11 June 1874; retired V.A. 1 Feb. 1879; F.R.G.S.; F.M.S.; member of Soc of Arts 1879, and on committee for protection of ships from fire and from loss by sinking. d. 13 North terrace, Camberwell 11 May 1882. Journal of Society of Arts xxx 751 (1882).

NOON, Jeremiah, the assumed name of John Calvin. b. London 5 June 1829; employed in Calvert’s brewery; pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 9 stone 4 pounds in weight; beat Young Greek 1849 and Wm. Gray 1849; beat J. Hazeltine £50 a side, 86 rounds in 3 hours and 12 minutes at Frimley 16 April 1850; fought a drawn battle with James Massey £100 a side, 88 rounds in 3 hours at Dean Wiltshire 19 Nov. 1850; beat Hazeltine again £50 a side, 78 rounds in 3 hours and 10 minutes at Long Reach 17 Aug. 1852; beat George Lane £100 a side, 21 rounds in 44 minutes at Long Reach 5 April 1853; beat Plantagenet Green the Black £50 a side, 34 rounds in 82 minutes at Half-way House 7 Jany. 1854; fought Wm. Barry £100 a side, 16 rounds in 90 minutes at Shell Haven 1 Dec 1854, they renewed the fight 23 Dec. when the referee declared it a drawn battle; was second to John Jones in his fight with Mike Madden at Long Reach 11 Dec. 1855, when Jones was killed, Noon was tried for manslaughter at Maidstone 14 March 1856 and acquitted; called Jerry or young Noon after Anthony Noon, the pugilist, who was killed by Owen Swift in a fight 26 June 1834; second of Tom King in his fight with James Mace 28 Jany. 1862. d. of consumption in St. George’s hospital, London 1 Aug. 1871. bur. Tooting cemet. 5 Aug. John Hannen’s British Boxing (1851) 32–3; Illust. sporting news iii 449 (1864) portrait.

NORCLIFFE, Norcliffe (son of Thomas Dalton 1756–1820, who assumed the name of Norcliffe 1807). b. 24 Sept. 1791; lieut. 4 dragoons 28 April 1808, captain 29 Feb. 1816; served in the Peninsula; major 17 lancers 20 Dec. 1821, placed on h.p. 22 May 1823; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; K.H. 1836; had a residence Langton hall, Malton, Yorkshire. d. 6 Warwick st. Charing Cross, London 8 Feb. 1862.

NORCOTT, Sir William Sherbrooke Ramsay (son of sir Amos Norcott, G.C.H.) b. Chelmsford 24 Dec. 1804; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 13 June 1822, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1854; lieut. col. depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856 to 13 Jany. 1860; served in Crimea 1854–5; commanded a wing of the rifle brigade at the Alma; at first bombardment of Sebastopol, medal with two clasps; A.D.C. to the Queen 29 June 1855 to 10 Dec. 1868; assistant adjutant general Cork 26 Nov. 1863 to 28 Nov. 1867; lieut. governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1873 to 30 Sept. 1878; col. of 47 foot 20 March 1878 to 14 Sept. 1885; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1878; general 14 July 1879; col. commandant rifle brigade 14 Sept. 1885 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1877. d. St. Leonard’s-on-sea 23 Jany. 1886.