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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.