Chapter 35
Part 35
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.