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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NICHOLLS, JOHN ASHTON (only child of Benjamin Nicholls). _b._ Grosvenor st. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 25 March 1823; ed. at Manchester New college 1840–4; a life member of British Association June 1842; F.R.A.S. June 1849; entered his father’s business 1844; secretary to the Ancoats Lyceum, organised classes and delivered courses of lectures; helped to form the Unitarian home missionary board 1854, one of the first secretaries; chairman of directors of Manchester Athenæum 1856. _d._ of low fever at Eagley house, Manchester 18 Sept. 1859. _In memoriam, a selection from the letters of J. A. Nicholls_, _privately printed_ (1862); _Christian Reformer_ (1859) 639 _et seq._; _Wade’s Rise of nonconformity in Manchester_ (1880) 64 _et seq._

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

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

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

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

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

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

NICHOLS, WILLIAM LUKE (eld. son of Luke Nichols of Gosport, Hants, merchant). _b._ Gosport 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; C. of Keynsham, Somerset 1825; C. of Bedminster, near Bristol; minister of St. James’s, Bath 1 Feb. 1834 to 31 March 1839; V. of Trinity church, Bath 1839–40; R. of Buckland Monachorum, near Plymouth 1846–51; R. D. of Tavistock 1849–51; F.S.A. 2 Feb. 1865; had a fine library; resided at the Woodlands, Somerset from 1870; author of Horæ Romanæ or a visit to a Roman villa, Bath 1838; The Quantocks and their associations, Bath 1873, 2 ed. 1891 with portrait; edited Remains of the Rev. Francis Kilvert 1866; left by his will to parish of Grosport funds for completion of a campanile, which cost with the bells £2,500. _d._ the Woodlands, midway between Nether Stowey and Alfoxden, Somerset 25 Sept. 1889. _bur._ Gosport churchyard 1 Oct. _Peach’s Historic houses in Bath_ (1884) _pp._ 7, 8, 9, 58; _The Bath Chronicle 3 Oct. 1889 p._ 3, _10 Oct. p._ 3.

NICHOLSON, ALFRED. _b._ 1822; a player on the oboe; composer of The Belvoir polka 1852; That day, a song 1854. _d._ Leicester 29 Aug. 1870.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It more resembled one of later date And tenfold talent, as I’m told, in Bow st., Where kindlier souls do congregate; And though there are who deem that same a low street, Yet I’m assured, for frolicsome debate And genuine humour it’s surpassed by no street, When the ‘Chief Baron’ enters and assumes To rule o’er mimic Thesigers and Broughams.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NICOL, JAMES DYCE (only son of W. Nicol, M.D.) _b._ Stonehaven 13 Aug. 1805; partner in firm of Nicol & Co. Bombay to 1844; M.P. Kincardineshire 17 July 1865 to death; F.R.G.S. _d._ 13 Hyde park terrace, London 16 Nov. 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_ 503 (1872).

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

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

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

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

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

NICOLL, WILLIAM. _b._ Little Tullybeltane 1817; in a situation at Glasgow on £40 a year; a poet, his fugitive pieces are printed in Drummond’s Perthshire. _d._ Edinburgh 1855. _bur._ North Leith churchyard. _P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire_ (1879) 333–83.

NOTE.--His brother Robert Nicoll _b._ Little Tullybeltane 7 Jany. 1814 _d._ 1837, was also a well known poet.

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

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

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

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

NICOLSON, ALEXANDER (son of Malcolm Nicolson of Husabost in Skye). _b._ Husabost 27 Sept. 1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb., B.A. 1850, hon. M.A. 1859, LL.D. 1880; one of the sub-editors of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; editor of Edinburgh Guardian 1855; edited the Daily Express for one year; contributed to the Scotsman; called to Scottish bar 1860; reported law cases for the Scottish Jurist ten years, edited it latterly; assistant comr. of education 1865 when he produced a blue book on the Western and Northern Highlands; sheriff substitute of Kirkcudbright 1872; comr. to inquire into condition of the crofters 1883; sheriff substitute of Greenock 1885–9; author of The lay of the Beanmòhr, a song of the Sudreyar 1867; edited D. Macintosh’s A collection of Gaelic proverbs 1881, 2 ed. 1882; Memoirs of Adam Black, M.P. 1885, 2 ed. 1885; he revised the Gaelic Scriptures for the soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1893. _bur._ Warriston cemet. _Verses by A. Nicolson with memoir by W. Smith_ (1893) _portrait_; _Scottish law review ix_ 38–40; _D. H. Edwards’s Modern Scottish poets_, _3rd series_ (1880) 417–9.

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

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

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

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

NIGHTINGALE, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1827; dramatist; resided at Liverpool; published The Liverpool year book, edited by Lee and Nightingale 1857; Lee and Nightingale’s Telegraph guide 1858, Number i. _d._ 13 Coverdale road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 20 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 24 Jany.

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

NIGHTINGALL, JOHN (son of a trainer, _d._ 1890). _b._ 1833; apprenticed to be a jockey; with Cecil won the Cesarewitch 1868; best known as a trainer, especially of horses for the suburban meetings; trained Shifnel, winner of the Grand National steeple chase 1878, and Ilex, winner in 1890; trained for lord Calthorpe, lord Rendlesham, sir Simon Lockhart, and G. Masterman. _d._ Epsom 13 Nov. 1891. _Baily’s Mag. lvi_ 425 (1891); _Illust. sp. and dr. news 21 Nov. 1891 p._ 331 _portrait_; _Man of the world 25 Nov. 1891 p._ 564 _portrait_.

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

NIMMO, ANDREW. _b._ Edinburgh 1817 or 1818; call boy at Edinburgh theatre, afterwards actor; assistant to John Mitchell of Bond st. London, theatrical agent to 1863; theatrical agent at 55 Wigmore st. Cavendish sq. 1863 to death. _d._ 55 Wigmore st. Cavendish sq. London 23 June 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 28 June. _Era 30 June 1872 p._ 9.

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

NIMMO, WILLIAM PHILIP. _b._ Edinburgh 1831; a bookseller there Dec. 1855; a publisher there to his death; published Nimmo’s Juvenile tales, Edinb. 1866; Nimmo’s Popular tales 1866. _d._ Minto st. Edinb. 16 April 1883.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOBLE, SAMUEL (son of Edward Noble, bookseller, _d._ 1784). _b._ London 4 March 1779; apprenticed to an engraver and practised as an architectural engraver, retired from practice 1819; became a Swedenborgian about 1799, helped to found the Society for printing and publishing the writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg 1810; chief editor of and principal writer in The intellectual repository and new Jerusalem magazine 1812–40; ordained on Whitsunday 1820; minister of the Swedenborg church in Lisle st. Leicester square, the congregation purchased Edward Irving’s chapel 15 Cross st. Hatton Garden about 1829, where he preached to his death; lost his eye sight 1848; held that our Lord’s body was not resuscitated but dissipated in the grave and replaced at the resurrection by a new and divine frame, a great controversy arose between the dissipationists and resuscitationists, and a Noble Society was formed to support his position; author of The doctrine of the scriptures respecting the divine Trinity 1821; The plenary inspiration of the scriptures asserted 1825, 2 ed. 1856; An appeal on behalf of the views of the eternal world and state held by the christians who believe that a new church is signified by the New Jerusalem 1826, 3 ed. 1855; Important doctrines of true christian religion explained 1846; The divine law of the ten commandments explained 1848; Book of Judges, sermons in explanation of first eleven chapters 1856; Eight parables explained in twenty three sermons 1857. _d._ London 27 Aug. 1853. _bur._ Highgate cemet. where is monument. _S. Noble’s An appeal_, _3 ed._ (1855), _memoir pp. v–xviii_; _W. White’s Life of E. Swedenborg_ (1867) _i_ 230, _ii_ 613; _F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs_ (1872) 180–1.

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

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

NODDALL, CORNELIUS THOMAS AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1812 or 1813; master attendant royal Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1 April 1858 to 1 Dec. 1864; master attendant and harbour master Deptford dockyard 1 Dec. 1864 to 14 Oct. 1867; commander 22 Feb. 1860; retired captain 14 Oct. 1867; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ St. Bernards, Torquay 22 June 1874.

NOEL, BAPTIST WRIOTHESLEY (youngest child of sir Gerard Noel-Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838). _b._ Leightmount, Scotland 16 July 1798; educ. Westminster 1810–3, and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1821; C. of Cossington, Leics.; minister of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London 1827 to 3 Dec. 1848; his anti-corn law tract A plea for the poor 1841 produced many replies; chaplain in ordinary to the queen Aug. 1841–9; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1846; preached at the Scottish church in Regent sq. London 25 March 1849; took the oaths prescribed by 52 Geo. III, cap. 155, and preached in the Weigh House chapel May 1849; publicly rebaptised by immersion in the Baptist chapel, John st. Bedford row 9 Aug. 1849, minister of the chapel 9 Aug. 1849 to 15 July 1868, when he was presented with a purse containing one thousand guineas; president of the Baptist Union 1855 and 1867; author of Meditations on sickness and old age 1837; Notes of a tour through the Midland counties of Ireland 1837; The first five centuries of the church 1839; A plea for the poor, showing how the repeal of the corn laws will affect the working classes 1841, 29th thousand 1841; Christian missions to heathen nations 1842; Sermons, 2 vols. 1859, and upwards of 50 other works. _d._ Stanmore, Middlesex 19 Jany. 1873. _J. R. Dix’s Pulpit portraits_ (_Boston_ 1854) 245–56; _J. E. Ritchie’s The London pulpit_, _2 ed._ (1858) 147–54; _Pen and ink sketches_, _2 ed._ (1847) 240–4; _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages_, _4th series_, (1860) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xv_ 141 (1849) _portrait_, _lxii_ 91, 104, 106 (1873) _portrait_; _Graphic vii_ 99, 100 (1873) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

NOLAN, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1742; a tenant of the earl of Bessborough; his portrait taken and sent to the queen 1852; fully 6 feet in height; retained his faculties to his decease. _d._ Knockindrane, co. Carlow 24 April 1858, aged 115 years and 9 months. _G.M. iv_ 680 (1858).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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