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

NORFOLK, HENRY CHARLES FITZALAN HOWARD, 13 Duke of (only child of 12 duke of Norfolk 1765–1842). _b._ George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Aug. 1791; styled earl of Surrey 1815–42; M.P. Horsham 1829–32, the first Roman catholic to take the oath and his seat; M.P. West Sussex 1832–41; treasurer of the household 1837–41; P.C. 19 July 1837; captain of yeomen of the guard 5 July to 8 Sept. 1841; summoned to house of lords as baron Maltravers 11 Aug. 1841; succeeded as 13 duke 16 March 1842; earl marshall of England 16 March 1842; took the name of Fitzalan before Howard by R.L. 26 April 1842; master of the horse 1846–52; K.G. 4 May 1848; lord steward of the household 1853–4; president of royal botanical society; after the papal aggression in 1850 he abjured Romanism and conformed to the church of England, but was reconciled to R.C. religion on his death bed by canon Tierney, which fact is mentioned on his coffin plate. _d._ Arundel castle, Sussex 18 Feb. 1856. _bur._ in chapel attached to Arundel parish church 26 Feb. _G.M. xlv_ 419 (1856); _Burke’s Portrait gallery i_ 141 (1833) _portrait of Charlotte, duchess of Norfolk_, _d._ 1870; _Doyle’s Baronage ii_ 603 (1886) _portrait_.

NORFOLK, _Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard_, 14 Duke of (1 son of preceding). _b._ Great Stanhope st. London 7 Nov. 1815; styled lord Fitz-Alan 1815–42; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet royal horse guards 9 Jany. 1835, retired as captain; M.P. Arundel 1837–51; formally joined R.C. church in Paris 1842; styled earl of Arundel and Surrey 1842–56; M.P. Limerick 1851–2; succeeded as 14 Duke 18 Feb. 1856; declined the Garter when offered to him by lord Palmerston 1856; earl marshall of England 18 Feb. 1856; edited Lives of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and of Anne Dacres, his wife 1857, 2 ed. 1861; author of A few remarks on the condition of British catholics 1847; Letter on the bull In Cœna Domini 1848; Observations on diplomatic relations with Rome 1848. _d._ Arundel castle, Sussex 25 Nov. 1860. _bur._ in Fitzalan chapel, Arundel 6 Dec. _G.M. x_ 98 (1861); _I.L.N. xviii_ 77 (1851) _portrait_, _xxxvii_ 539, 544 (1860) _portrait_.

NORGATE, THOMAS STARLING (son of Elias Norgate, surgeon). _b._ Norwich 20 Aug. 1772; educ. Norwich gr. sch. 1780–8, and New college, Hackney; student at Lincoln’s inn; wrote for the Analytical review till it ceased 1799; wrote the half-yearly retrospect of domestic literature in the Monthly magazine 1797–1807; wrote nearly a seventh part of Arthur Aikin’s Annual review 1802–8; wrote for the Monthly review; helped to found the Norfolk and Norwich horticultural society 1829; edited the East Anglian, a weekly newspaper published at Norwich 1830–3; edited sir W. Jones’ The principles of government 1797; author of Essays, tales and poems, Norwich 1795. _d._ Hethersett, Norfolk 7 July 1859.

NORGATE, THOMAS STARLING (4 son of the preceding). _b._ 30 Dec. 1807; educ. Norwich gr. sch. and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; C. of Briningham 1832, C. of Clay-next-the-Sea, and C. of Banningham, all in Norfolk; R. of Sparham, Norfolk 21 April 1840 to death; author of Batrachomyomachia, an Homeric fable reproduced in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Odyssey in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Iliad in dramatic blank verse 1864. _d._ Sparham 25 Nov. 1893.

NORMAN, ALEXANDER (3 son of Luke Norman of Dublin). _b._ 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; called to bar in Ireland 1833; Q.C. 26 May 1858; had a large equity practice; resided 26 Rutland square, Dublin; while on a visit _d._ of heart disease by the roadside at Lynton 14 Sept. 1870. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 22 Sept. _The North Devon Journal 22 Sept. 1870 p._ 6, _29 Sept. p._ 5; _Law Journal v_ 547–48 (1870).

NORMAN, GEORGE (eld. son of James Norman, surgeon at Bath). _b._ 2 Sept. 1782; M.R.C.S. 1801, F.R.C.S. 1843; V.P. British medical assoc.; surgeon to the Casualty hospital, Bath 1817–26; first surgeon of Bath united hospital 1826–57, his bust placed in the hospital 1858; presented with a testimonial from the working men of Bath; sent papers to the Medico-chirurgical transactions; for many years he made £4,000 per annum. _d._ 1 Circus, Bath 17 Jany. 1861, memorial window placed in Abbey church, Bath Dec. 1862. _Lancet i_ 127 1861.

NORMAN, GEORGE WARDE (son of George Norman 1756–1830, sheriff of Kent 1793). _b._ Bromley common, Kent 20 Sept. 1793; educ. Eton 1805–10; in business with his father as merchants in the Norway timber trade 1810, carried on the business alone 1824–30, when he transferred it to Sewell & Co.; a director of Bank of England 1821–72; examined before parliamentary committees on currency 1832, 1840, and 1848; an exchequer bill comr. 1831, a public works loan comr. 1842–76; the last surviving original member of the Political economy club, founded 1821; a director of the Sun Insurance office 1830–64; great friend of George Grote, who wrote the History of Greece at his suggestion; author of Remarks upon some prevailing errors with respect to currency and banking 1833, republished 1838; Letter to Charles Wood, esq. on money and the means of economising the use of it 1841; An examination of some prevailing opinions as to the pressure of taxation in this and other countries 1850, 4 ed. 1864; Papers on various subjects 1869; A memoir on the life of the rev. F. Beadon 1879. _d._ 90 Common, Bromley, Kent 4 Sept. 1882. _Economist 9 Sept. 1882 p._ 1125, _30 Sept. pp._ 1209–11.

NORMAN, JOHN PAXTON (eld. son of John Norman of Claverham house, Gatton, Somerset 1777–1837). _b._ Congresbury, Somerset 21 Oct. 1819; educ. Exeter gram. sch. and Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; practised as a special pleader; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; one of judges of high court of Bengal May 1861 to death; filled office of chief justice temporarily 1864 and 1871; author of The law and practice of copyright 1851; A treatise on letters patent for inventions 1853; with E. T. Hurlstone Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 1856–62, 7 vols. 1857–62; stabbed by an assassin on the steps of his court at Calcutta 20 Sept. 1871. _d._ in a house near the court at 1 a.m. 21 Sept. _Graphic iv_ 375, 381 (1871) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lix_ 333, 334, 618 (1871) _portrait_.

NORMANBY, CONSTANTINE HENRY PHIPPS, 1 Marquess of (1 child of H. Phipps, 1 earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). _b._ Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 15 May 1797; styled viscount Normanby 1812–31; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1818; M.P. Scarborough 1818–20; M.P. Higham Ferrers, Northants 1822–6; M.P. Malton, Yorkshire 1826–30; succeeded as 2 earl Mulgrave 7 April 1831; governor of Jamaica 1832–4; P.C. 30 May 1832; G.C.H. 1832; lord keeper of the privy seal 30 July to 30 Nov. 1834; lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9, sworn in 11 May 1835; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1835–9; cr. marquess of Normanby, co. York 25 June 1838; sec. of state for colonial department 20 Feb. to 20 Aug. 1839, and for home department 30 Aug. 1839 to 6 Sept. 1841; ambassador to Paris 1846–52; G.C.B. 10 Dec. 1847; K.G. 19 Feb. 1851; envoy to Florence 1854–8; author of Matilda, a tale of the day, 2 vols. 1825; Yes and no, a novel, 2 vols. 1827; The English in France 1828; The contrast, a novel 3 vols. 1832; A year of revolution from a journal kept in Paris in 1848, 2 vols. 1857; The congress and the cabinet 1859, 4 ed. 1860; An historical sketch of Louise de Bourbon, duchess regent of Parma 1861; A vindication of the duke of Modena from the charges of Mr. Gladstone 1861, 2 ed. 1861. _d._ 9 Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London 28 July 1863. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 331–3 _portrait_; _G. Smales’s Whitby authors_ (1867) 153–9; _St. Stephens_, _By Mask_ (1839) 164–72; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery v_ (1834) _portrait_; _Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 124 _portrait_; _Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii_ 92 (1846) _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_ 101 (1844) _portrait_; _J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage ii_ 607 (1884) _portrait_.

NORMANBY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS CONSTANTINE PHIPPS, 2 Marquess of (only son of the preceding). _b._ 23 July 1819; styled viscount Normanby 1831–8, and earl of Mulgrave 1838–63; ensign Scots fusilier guards 9 Nov. 1838, sold out 29 Sept. 1843; major North York regt. of militia 1846–53; M.P. Scarborough 1847–51; contested Scarborough 19 July 1851; M.P. Scarborough 1852–7; comptroller of the household 23 July 1851 to 27 Feb. 1852, and treasurer 4 Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 7 Aug. 1851; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia Jany. 1858 to May 1866; second marquess of Normanby 28 July 1863; hon. col. Tower hamlets rifle volunteers 23 Dec. 1863; lord in waiting to the queen 8 May to 6 July 1866, and 17 Dec. 1868 to 17 Dec. 1869; high steward of Hull; capt. of hon. corps of gentlemen at arms 17 Dec. 1869 to Jany. 1871; governor and commander in chief of Queensland 8 April 1871 to 1874, of New Zealand 5 Sept. 1874 to 1878, and of Victoria 24 Feb. 1879 to April 1884; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874, G.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; G.C.B. 9 Jany. 1885. _d._ 6 Brunswick ter. Brighton 3 April 1890. _bur._ Lythe church, Whitby 10 April. _Athenæum ii_ 504–6 (1877); _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers_ (1886) 261 _portrait_; _C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield i_ 306 (1852) _portrait_; _Graphic 26 April 1890 p._ 533 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxii_ 200 (1858) _portrait_, _xlviii_ 144 (1866) _portrait_; _Governor Normanby’s visit to Gympie, with account of the Gympie gold fields_, _Gympie_ (1873); _The visit of his excellency the governor of the North_. _Auckland_ (1876).

NORMANDY, ALPHONSE RENÉ LE MIRE DE. _b._ Rouen, France 23 Oct. 1809; educ. for the medical profession; studied chemistry in Germany under Gmelin; patented indelible inks and dies 1839; patented a method of hardening soap made from soft goods by the addition of sulphate of soda 1841; patented in 1851 an apparatus for distilling sea-water to obtain pure water for drinking, this is largely used on board ships, the manufacture of these stills is carried on by Normandy’s Patent marine ærated fresh water company near the Victoria docks, London; a consulting and analytical chemist some years; F.C.S. 20 May 1854; resided in England about 1843 to death; author of A guide to the alkali metrical chest 1849; Handbook of chemical analysis 1850, 2 ed. 1875; The chemical atlas 1855; The dictionaries of the chemical atlas 1857. _d._ Odin lodge, Clapham park, London 10 May 1864. _G.M. i_ 813 (1864), _ii_ 120 (1864); _I.L.N. xlv_ 105, 106 (1864) _portrait_.

NORMANTON, WELBORE ELLIS AGAR, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 earl of Normanton 1736–1809, who was archbishop of Dublin). _b._ 12 Nov. 1778; styled viscount Somerton to 1809; succeeded 14 July 1809; built a fine gallery at Somerley, near Ringwood, Hants 1854, for his collection of Italian, Spanish, French, and English paintings, gallery especially rich in sir Joshua Reynolds’ pictures. _d._ 3 Seamore place, London 26 Aug. 1868, personalty sworn under £700,000, 31 Oct. 1868. _Waagen’s Galleries of Art_ (1857) 363–73; _Register and Mag. of Biography Feb. 1869 p._ 164; _Times 27 Aug. 1868 p._ 7.

NORRIS, CHARLES (younger son of John Norris of Marylebone, merchant). _b._ 24 Aug. 1779; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 Oct. 1797; cornet 13 dragoons 21 Feb. 1799, sold out 1800; resided at Tenby 1810 to death; published three numbers of The architectural antiquities of Wales, vol. 1, Pembrokeshire 1810, the 3 numbers were re-issued in one vol. 1811 under title of St. Davids, in a series of engravings illustrating the different ecclesiastical edifices of that ancient city; Etchings of Tenby 1812, containing 40 engravings drawn and etched by himself; author of An historical account of Tenby and its vicinity 1818, 2 ed. 1856. _d._ Tenby 16 Oct. 1858.

NORRIS, EDWIN. _b._ Taunton 24 Oct. 1795; tutor to an English family in France and Italy; clerk in office of East India Co. London 1825–36; assistant secretary of Royal Asiatic society 1836, secretary 1859, hon. secretary and librarian 1861 to death, edited the Society’s Journal many years; translator in Foreign office 29 May 1847, retired upon a superannuation allowance 31 March 1866; an Assyriologist and one of the earliest decipherers of cuneiform inscriptions, deciphered the rock inscription of King Asoka near Kapur di Giri 1845; hon. Ph.D. Bonn for his discoveries in deciphering cuneiform inscriptions 1855; author of Outlines of a vocabulary of a few of the principal languages of western and central Africa 1841; A specimen of the Van language of West Africa 1851; The ancient Cornish drama, 2 vols. Oxford 1859; Assyrian dictionary, parts i–iii 1868–72; conducted The ethnographical library, 2 vols. 1853–4. _d._ 6 Michael’s Grove, Brompton, London 10 Dec. 1872, a bust of him placed in Shire hall, Taunton July 1876. _Numismatic Chronicle xiv_ 19–24 (1874).

NORRIS, JAMES (son of rev. Wm. Norris of Warblington, Hants.). _b._ Warblington 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1829, D.D. 1843; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815, fellow 10 Oct. 1822–43, bursar 1830, president 16 Sept. 1843 to death; the college purchased the Lee Grange estate in Bucks. for £57,500 June 1869. _d._ 16 April 1872. _bur._ in college cloisters, where is memorial tablet. _T. Fowler’s History of Corpus Christi college_ (1893) 75, 304, 318–9, 326.

NORRIS, JOHN PILKINGTON (son of Thomas Norris, physician). _b._ Chester 10 June 1823; educ. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, fellow 1848; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1881; C. of Trumpington, Cambs. 1849; an inspector of schools in Staffs., Shropshire, and Cheshire 6 Oct. 1849 to 1863, and in Kent and Surrey 1863–4; C. of Lewknor, Oxfordshire 1864; canon of Bristol 14 July 1865 to death; P.C. of Hatchford, Surrey 1864–70; V. of St. George, Brandon Hill, Bristol 1870; rural dean of Bristol 1876; V. of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol 1877–8; archdeacon of Bristol Aug. 1881 to death; examining chaplain to bishop Fraser of Manchester 1870–85; inspector of church training colleges 1871–6; appointed dean of Chichester 25 Dec. 1891, but died 4 days later; author of Translation of Demosthenes, De Corona 1849; The education of the people 1869; A key to the Gospels 1869; Manual of religious instruction, 3 vols. 1874; A key to the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles 1871, 3 ed. 1884; The new testament with introduction and notes 1880; Some account of the church of St. Mary Redcliffe 1882; A key to the epistles of St. Paul 1890. _d._ 7 Great George st. Bristol 29 Dec. 1891. _bur._ in the graveyard adjoining Bristol cathedral. _The Biograph vi_ 64–6 (1881); _I.L.N. 9 Jany. 1892 p._ 38 _portrait_.

NOTE.--The inauguration of the building of the nave of Bristol cathedral was due to him, he also set on foot the scheme for the revival of the bishopric of Bristol and obtained the act of parliament legalizing it, he raised more than £113,000 for the cathedral, see and spiritual wants of the city of Bristol.

NORRIS, JOHN THOMAS (youngest son of Edmund Norris of Sutton Courtney). _b._ 1808; contested Abingdon 13 Dec. 1854 and 13 July 1865; M.P. Abingdon 1857–65. _d._ Sutton Courtney, Abingdon, Berks. 15 Jany. 1870. _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 92, 94 (1858) _portrait_, _lvi_ 131 (1870).

NORRIS, SIR WILLIAM (4 son of Wm. Norris of Old Jewry, London). _b._ 7 Nov. 1793; barrister M.T. 29 June 1827; practised in India 1829; a puisne judge at Ceylon, chief justice there 1 Oct. 1835 to 7 March 1836; knighted at Whitehall 7 Nov. 1835; recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca 7 March 1836 to March 1847. _d._ Ashurst lodge, near Sunningdale, Berks. 7 Sept. 1859. _bur._ Sunninghill churchyard.

NORTH, BROWNLOW (only son of Charles Augustus North 1785–1825, rector of Alverstoke, Hants.). _b._ Winchester house, Chelsea, 6 Jany. 1810; appointed registrar of diocese of Winchester 1817 in reversion upon the death of his father; educ. Eton 1819–25; sent to Corfu 1825; travelled with a tutor in France and Italy; served in Don Pedro’s army at Oporto 1832–3; matric. from Magd. coll. Oxf. 21 March 1839, B.A. 1842; conducted evangelical meetings in Scotland from 1855; formally recognised as an evangelist by the Free church of Scotland 1859; took part in revivalist meetings in Ulster 1859; preached in London 20 Dec. 1859 to May 1860; sometimes gave discourses in drawing rooms; author of Ourselves, a picture selected from the history of the children of Israel 1865, 10 ed. 1888; Yes or no, Genesis xxiv 1–58, 1867, 3 ed. 1871; The rich man and Lazarus 1869; The prodigal son, or the way home 1871. _d._ Tullichewan castle, Dumbartonshire, the residence of Mr. James Campbell 9 Nov. 1875. _bur._ Dean cemet. Edinb. _B. North, Records and Recollections._ _By K. Moody-Stuart_ (1878) _portrait_; _J. Baillie’s B. North, esq._ (1876).

NORTH, CHARLES NAPIER (eld. son of Roger North, captain 71 foot, _d._ 1822). _b._ 12 Jany. 1817; ensign 6 foot 20 May 1836, lieut. 28 Dec. 1838; served against the Arabs at Aden 1840–1; 1 lieut. 60 rifles 7 Jany. 1842, major 19 June 1857; served in Punjab war 1849; deputy judge advocate of Havelock’s column in the Indian mutiny from 21 July 1857 until the arrival of sir Colin Campbell’s force at Lucknow; invalided home Jany. 1858; colonel in the army 30 March 1865, sold out 26 Oct. 1868; author of Journal of an English officer in India 1858. _d._ Bray, co. Wicklow 20 Aug. 1869. _bur._ in cemetery at Aldershot.

NORTH, FREDERICK (eld. son of Frederick F. North). _b._ Hastings 2 July 1800; educ. Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; a student of the Inner Temple; M.P. Hastings 1831–7, 1854–65, and 1868 to death. _d._ Hastings 29 Oct. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 266 (1869).

NORTH, ISAAC WILLIAM (son of rev. Henry North, assistant minister of Welbeck chapel, London, who _d._ 16 April 1838). _b._ St. Marylebone, London 28 July 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of Fulham, Middlesex; chaplain of the Isles of Scilly 1841–51; V. of Holy Trinity, Greenwich 1851 to death; author of Sermons on the liturgy 1844; A sermon preached at the visitation of the archdeacon of Cornwall 1849; A week in the Isles of Scilly 1850, revised and rewritten by L. H. Courtney 1867; Sermons preached in Trinity church, Greenwich 1854. _d._ Lyndhurst, Hampshire 12 Aug. 1881. _Guardian xxxvi_ 1156 (1881).

NORTH, JOHN (son of Benjamin North of Woodstock). _b._ 1790; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Oxfordshire militia; had charge of recruits and French prisoners at Bristol to 1814; practised in London, chiefly in midwifery and diseases of women and children; lecturer on these subjects at Westminster hospital and then at Middlesex hospital from 1838; with R. Macleod edited The Medical and physical journal 1829–30; author of Practical observations on the convulsions of infants 1826. _d._ 9a Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 March 1873. _Lancet 29 March 1873 p._ 465.

NORTH, JOHN. _b._ 1852; conductor of Huddersfield choral soc., of the Glee and madrigal soc., and of the Philharmonic soc. to death; choirmaster Huddersfield parish church to death. _d._ Spring-bank, Fartown, Huddersfield 12 Oct. 1891.

NORTH, JOHN SIDNEY (2 son of lieut. general sir Charles William Doyle, G.C.H. 1770–1842). _b._ Alnwick 28 May 1804; educ. Sandhurst; ensign 11 foot 1 Feb. 1821; capt. 87 foot 22 Nov. 1827, placed on h.p. 17 April 1835, sold out 1837; cr. D.C.L. Oxford univ. 12 June 1839; lieut. col. 2 Tower Hamlets militia 1836; lieut. col. Oxfordshire rifle volunteers 1 May 1860, hon. col. 26 March 1873 to death; by R.L. took name of North instead of Doyle 20 Aug. 1838; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1845; M.P. Oxfordshire 1852–85; voted in the minority of 53 who censured free trade Nov. 1852; P.C. 3 April 1886; _m._ 18 Nov. 1835 Susan North, 2 dau. of 3 earl of Guildford, she was _b._ Waldershare, near Dover 6 Feb. 1797, became baroness North by termination of the abeyance 10 Sept. 1841, and _d._ Putney Hill, Surrey 5 March 1884, _bur._ Wroxton church, near Banbury 11 March; he _d._ 11 Oct. 1894. _Graphic 20 Oct. 1894 p._ 454 _portrait_; _Times 12 Oct. 1894 p._ 5.

NORTH, MARIANNE (eld. dau. of Frederick North of Rougham, Norfolk, M.P. for Hastings). _b._ Hastings 24 Oct. 1830; resided abroad 1847–50; travelled with her father in Syria and Egypt 1865; painted flowers in Canada, U.S. of America, Jamaica and Brazil July 1871 to Sept. 1873; visited Teneriffe 1875; travelled round the world Aug. 1875 to March 1877, and in India 1878–9; exhibited her drawings at a room in Conduit st. London, summer of 1879, after which she presented them to the Botanical gardens at Kew, where a gallery designed by James Fergusson was built for them and opened 9 July 1882; travelled in Borneo, Australia, and New Zealand 1880–2, in South Africa 1882–3; painted araucarias in Chili 1884–5; five species of flowers, four of which she first made known in Europe, have been named after her; resided at Alderley, Gloucs. 1886 to death. _d._ Mount house, Alderley 30 Aug. 1890. _bur._ Alderley, bust by Conrad Dressler placed in inner room of the North gallery, Kew March 1894. _Recollections of a happy life, the autobiography of M. North_, _edited by her sister Mrs. J. A. Symonds_, 2 _vols._ (1892) 2 _portraits_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 616 (1882) _portrait and 13 Sept. 1890 p._ 342 _portrait_.

NORTH, THOMAS (son of Thomas North of Burton End, Melton Mowbray, Leics.) _b._ Melton Mowbray 24 Jany. 1830; clerk in Paget’s bank, Leicester about 1845–72; hon. secretary of Leicestershire architectural society and editor of its Transactions 1861 to death, to which he contributed more than 30 papers; F.S.A. 1875; author of Tradesmen’s tokens, Leicestershire 1857; A chronicle of the church of St. Martin in Leicester during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth 1866; The church bells of Leicestershire 1876, of Northamptonshire 1878, of Rutland 1880, of Lincoln 1882, of Bedfordshire 1883, and of Hertfordshire 1886, six volumes; English bells and bell lore 1888; The accounts of the churchwardens of St. Martin’s, Leicester 1489–1844, 1884. _d._ The Plas, Llanfairfechan, North Wales 27 Feb. 1884. _Transactions of the Leicestershire architectural society vi_ 91–3 (1885); _Church Bells 8 March 1884 p._ 318.

NORTH, WILLIAM. _b._ Nottingham 1807; a schoolmaster Nottingham, then inspector of corn returns; played in Nottingham _v._ Sheffield on the Forest ground, Nottingham 20–22 Aug. 1827; author of Nottingham cricket scores 1771–1829, 1830. _d._ 6 March 1855. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 32 (1862).

NORTH, WILLIAM. _b._ 17 Oct. 1811; member of firm of Payne, Eddison, and Ford solicitors, Leeds 1849; engaged in carrying out the Leeds and North Midland railway; the first secretary of the Midland railway company 1844; founded firm of North and Sons, solicitors, Leeds 1858; legal adviser of the Yorkshire banking company from its formation to his death, a director to 1880; steward to earl of Mexborough for his five manors. _d._ Potternewton, near Leeds 24 July 1883. _bur._ Woodhouse cemetery, Leeds. _Law Times 11 Aug. 1883 p._ 285.

NORTH, WILLIAM (2 son of George North of St. John’s, Brecon). _b._ 1808; educ. Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1830–5; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; C. of St. John, Brecon 1833–40; professor of Latin in St. David’s coll. Lampeter 1840–62; R. of Llangoedmore, Cardiganshire 10 Dec. 1840 to death; archdeacon of Cardigan and prebendary of Llandyfriog in St. David’s cathedral 1860 to death; author of A charge to the clergy 1865. _d._ Treforgan, Cardigan 7 June 1893.

NORTHAMPTON, SPENCER JOSHUA ALWYNE COMPTON, 2 Marquess of (2 son of 1 Marquess of Northampton 1760–1828). _b._ Stoke park, Wiltshire 1 Jany. 1790; styled lord Compton 1796–1812; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810, LL.D. 1835; capt. central regt. Northamptonshire militia 10 Sept. 1810; styled earl Compton 1812–28; M.P. Northampton 1812–20; lived in Italy 1820–30; succeeded as 2 marquess 24 May 1828; recorder of Northampton 1828–32; F.R.S. 27 May 1830, president 30 Nov. 1838, resigned 30 Nov. 1849; F.S.A. 10 March 1836; F.G.S., president; president of British Association at Bristol 1836, and Swansea 1848; president of Royal soc. of literature 26 April 1849 to death; a trustee of the British museum 1849; D.C.L. of Oxford 24 June 1850; edited Irene, a poem by Margaret, marchioness of Northampton 1833; The Tribute, a collection of unpublished poems 1837; author of Observations on the motion of sir R. Heron, M.P. respecting vacating seats in parliament on the acceptance of office 1835. _d._ Castle Ashby, near Northampton 17 Jany. 1851. _bur._ Castle Ashby 25 Jany. _P. F. Robinson’s Vitruvius Britannicus_ (1847) _part_ 3 _pp._ 1–24; _H. Drummond’s Noble British families i_ 12–6 (1846); _G.M. xxxv_ 425–9 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 59, 60 (1851) _portrait_; _Athenæum 25 Jany. 1851 pp._ 110–11; _Doyle’s Baronage ii_ 631 (1886) _portrait_; _Times 18 Jany. 1851 p._ 5, _22 Jany. p._ 5.

NORTHBOURNE, SIR WALTER CHARLES JAMES, 1 Baron (son of John James, minister plenipotentiary to Holland, _d._ 4 June 1818). _b._ 3 June 1816; educ. Westminster school 1826–33, and Christ Church, Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; succeeded his grandfather as second baronet 8 Oct. 1829; by his marriage in 1841 came into the Ellison properties in Gateshead, Hebbern and the neighbourhood; M.P. Hull 1837–47; sheriff of Kent 1855; a commissioner on the constitution and working of the ecclesiastical courts 1880; a trustee of the national gallery; cr. baron Northbourne of Betteshanger, Kent 5 Nov. 1884. _d._ Betteshanger, near Sandwich 4 Feb. 1893. _Daily Graphic 9 Feb. 1893 p._ 8 _portrait_.

NORTHBROOK, FRANCIS THORNHILL BARING, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir Thomas Baring, 2 bart. 1790–1848). _b._ Calcutta 20 April 1796; educ. Winchester and Christ Church, Oxf., double first class and B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; capt. North Hants. regt. of militia 1 July 1818; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823; M.P. Portsmouth 1826–65; a lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834; joint secretary to the treasury 6 June to 17 Nov. 1834, and 21 April 1835 to Aug. 1839; chancellor of the exchequer 26 Aug. 1839 to 3 Sept. 1841; P.C. 26 Aug. 1839; succeeded as 3 baronet 3 April 1848; first lord of the admiralty 18 Jany. 1849 to 27 Feb. 1852; F.R.S. 22 Sept. 1849; cr. baron Northbrook of Stratton, county of Southampton 4 Jany. 1866. _d._ of apoplexy Stratton park, near Winchester 6 Sept. 1866. _bur._ Michelde church, Hants. 13 Sept. _G.M. ii_ 543–4 (1866).

NORTHCOTE, STAFFORD HENRY, 1 Earl of Iddesleigh (eld. son of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792–1830, M.P. Haytesbury 1826–30). _b._ 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818; educ. Eton 1831–6, rowed bow oar in the Eton eight 1835; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 3 March 1836, scholar 1836–42, rowed in the college boat 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1840, D.C.L. 1863; private secretary to W. E. Gladstone, the vice-president of board of trade 30 June 1842 to 1845; legal assistant at board of trade Feb. 1845 to Aug. 1850; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1847; one of secretaries of Great Exhibition 3 Jany. 1850 to Oct. 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 March 1851; C.B. 17 Oct. 1851; G.C.B. 20 April 1880; a comr. for reorganising board of trade Dec. 1852 to March 1853; M.P. Dudley 1855–7; contested North Devon 6 April 1857; M.P. Stamford 1858–66; M.P. North Devon 1866–85; financial sec. to the treasury Jany. to June 1859; member of public schools commission 18 July 1862, and of endowed schools commission 20 Dec. 1865; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to 1867; P.C. 6 July 1866; secretary for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; chairman of Hudson’s Bay company Jany. 1869, governor March 1869 to March 1874; one of the six comrs. to arrange matters in dispute between Great Britain and the United States 13 Feb. 1871, the treaty of Washington was signed 8 May 1871; president of commission to inquire into working of friendly societies 14 Jany. 1871; chancellor of the exchequer 18 Feb. 1874 to April 1880; abolished the sugar duties of £2,000,000, 1874; applied an annual sinking fund of 28 millions to reduction of the national debt 1875; exempted incomes of £150 from income tax instead of £100 as before 1876; carried his Savings’ bank bill 1875, his Friendly societies’ bill 1875, and his Public works loan bill 1878; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1875; leader of the house of commons 8 Feb. 1877 to 24 March 1880; led the opposition April 1881 to June 1885; first lord of the treasury June 1885 to Feb. 1886; created viscount Saint Cyres of Newton Saint Cyres, Devon, and earl of Iddesleigh 3 July 1885; president of commission to inquire into depression of trade 29 Aug. 1885, the last report dated 21 Dec. 1886; presented by members of house of commons with a service of plate 8 March 1886; foreign secretary 27 July 1886 to 4 Jany. 1887; lord lieutenant of Devon 8 Jany. 1886 to death; lord rector of univ. of Edinb. 3 Nov. 1883 to death; author of The case of sir Eardley Wilmot 1847, 2 ed. 1847; A short review of the navigation laws of England. By A Barrister 1849, 2 ed. 1849; A statement connected with the election of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford in 1847, 1852, and 1853, 1853; Twenty years of financial policy 1862; The pleasures, the dangers, and the uses of desultory reading 1885; Lectures and essays 1887. _d._ in lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany. 1887. _bur._ Upton Pyne, Devon 18 Jany., two statues by sir E. Boehm, R.A., one in house of commons vestibule, the other on Northernhay, Exeter; personalty sworn under £23,000 March 1887. _A. Lang’s Life of sir S. Northcote_ 2 _vols._ (1890) 2 _portraits_; _C. Worthy’s Life of earl of Iddesleigh_ (1887) _portrait_.

NORTHESK, GEORGE JOHN CARNEGIE, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 earl of Northesk 1794–1878). _b._ Longwood, Hants. 1 Dec. 1843; styled lord Rosehill 1843–78; cornet 1 dragoons 10 June 1862; ensign Scots fusilier guards 21 Nov. 1862, captain 26 March 1873, sold out 27 June 1874; succeeded as 9 earl 5 Dec. 1878; a representative peer for Scotland Feb. 1885; made a collection of flint prehistoric weapons, which he lent to the museum of science and arts Edinb., and to the city museum, Winchester; F.S.A. 30 Nov. 1871, vice-president. _d._ Longwood house, near Winchester 10 Sept. 1891. _Proc. of Society of Antiquaries xiv_ 136 (1892).

NORTHEY, FRANCIS VERNON (son of E. R. Northey of Epsom). _b._ 1836; educ. Eton, one of the cricket eleven 1852–4; ensign 60 foot 22 March 1855, instructor in musketry 3 Nov. 1858, major 5 July 1873 to death; commanded the third battalion in Zululand; mortally wounded at battle of Ginghilovo 2 April 1879, and _d._ 7 April 1879. _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 576 (1879) _portrait_; _Graphic xix_ 584 (1879) _portrait_.

NORTHMORE, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Northmore of Cleve house, near Exeter 1735–77). _b._ Cleve house 1766; educ. Tiverton and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; F.S.A. 19 May 1791; contested Exeter 20 June 1818, and Barnstaple 12 Dec. 1832; discovered the ossiferous nature of Kent’s cavern at Torquay about 1824; published Plutarch’s Treatise upon the distinction between a friend and flatterer 1793; Memoirs of Planetes, or a sketch of the laws and manners of Makar. By Philelentherus Devoniensis 1795; Washington, or liberty restored, a poem in ten books 1809, Baltimore 1809; Of education founded upon principles, Part the first, Time previous to the age of puberty 1800, no more published. _d._ Furzebrook House, near Axminster 20 or 29 May 1851. _I.L.N. xviii_ 545 (1851).

NORTHROP, FLORA (dau. of Mr. Macdonald). Principal of the Royal school for officers’ daughters at Castleton, Isle of Man; went to U.S. of America 1885 where she suffered great reverses. _d._ of starvation and of being frozen to death New York 31 Dec. 1893.

NORTHUMBERLAND, ALGERNON PERCY, 4 Duke of (younger son of 2 duke of Northumberland 1742–1817). _b._ Northumberland house, Charing Cross, London 15 Dec. 1792; educ. Eton; entered R.N. March 1805; midshipman Sept. 1805, lieut. 1811; served in Mediterranean to 1810; while acting captain of the Caledonia fought in an action off Toulon 1814; captain 19 Aug. 1815, when put on h.p.; cr. baron Prudhoe of Prudhoe castle, Northumberland 27 Nov. 1816; LL.D. Camb. 6 July 1835; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; succeeded his brother as 4 duke 11 Feb. 1847; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; R.A. of the Blue 11 Nov. 1850, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral 13 Oct. 1862; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; a trustee of the British museum 24 April 1861; hon. col. 2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 27 Dec. 1864; F.R.S. 9 April 1818; F.S.A. 10 April 1823; president of Royal Institution; president of Royal united service institution; president of Royal national lifeboat institution, gave premiums for improved boats; introduced the Victoria Regia 1838, which first flowered in England in a tank built for it at Sion house, Isleworth; bought the famous Camuccini collection of 74 paintings at Rome 1856. _d._ Alnwick castle, Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865. _bur._ in chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey 25 Feb., personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 April 1865. _Numismatic Chronicle v_ 20 (1865); _G.M. xviii_ 504–11 (1865); _I.L.N. xlvi_ 177, 190, 213, 217 (1865) _portrait_; _G. J. Aungier’s History of Syon monastery_ (1840); _Illust. Times 4 March 1865 pp._ 129, 132, _views of funeral, &c._; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ 1857, 265–69 _and_ 465–74; _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 822.

NORTHUMBERLAND, GEORGE PERCY, 5 Duke of (2 son of Algernon Percy, 1 earl of Beverley 1750–1830). _b._ Alnwick castle, Northumberland 22 June 1778; styled lord Louvain 1790–1830; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1799, LL.D. 1842; M.P. Beeralston 1799–1800; lieut. col. Northumberland regt. of militia 3 March 1804, col. 17 May 1804; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1804 to 10 Feb. 1806; commissioner for the affairs of India 6 April 1807 to 8 Sept. 1812; lord of the bed chamber to George IV 23 March 1826, and to William IV 24 July to Dec. 1830; succeeded as 2 earl of Beverley 21 Oct. 1830; captain of the yeomen of the guard 15 Jany. 1842 to 24 July 1846; P.C. 15 Jany. 1842; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; succeeded his cousin as 5 duke of Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865; hon. col. 2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 29 April 1865. _d._ Alnwick castle 21 Aug. 1867. _bur._ beneath chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster abbey 30 Aug., personalty sworn under £350,000, 21 Sept. _G.M. iv_ 532 (1867).

NORTHWICK, JOHN RUSHOUT, 2 Baron (elder son of 1 baron Northwick 1739–1800). _b._ St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 16 Feb. 1770; educ. Hackney, London, and at Neufchatel; lived in Italy 1790–1800; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1800; a governor of Harrow school 1801 to death; the first man in Europe to receive the news of the victory of the Nile and that from Nelson himself at Palermo; F.S.A. 11 Dec. 1800; his celebrated gallery of pictures, 1881 in number, at Thirlestane, Cheltenham, was sold by auction for £95,725 26 July to 15 Aug. 1859; his cabinet of Greek coins and medals was sold by auction for £8,565, 5 Dec. to 17 Dec. 1859. _d._ Northwick park, near Morton in the Marsh 20 Jany. 1859. _Waagen’s Treasures of art iii_ 195–212 (1854); _A.R._ (1859) 130–2, 181 _and_ 466; _Hours in the picture gallery at Thirlestane house_ (1843); _Catalogue of the paintings the property of J. R. baron Northwick_ (1859).

NORTHWICK, GEORGE RUSHOUT, 3 Baron (only son of hon. and rev. George Rushout, 1772–1842, rector of Burford, who took name of Bowles 20 June 1817). _b._ 30 Aug. 1811; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; cornet 1 life guards 18 Jany. 1833, captain 18 March 1842, placed on h.p. 4 June 1847; M.P. Evesham 1837–41; M.P. East Worcestershire 1847–59; lieut. col. Herefordshire militia 1853–62; chairman of Severn fishery board of conservators; succeeded his uncle as 3 baron 20 Jany. 1859. _d._ Upper Norwood 18 Nov. 1887. _Times 21 Nov. 1887 p._ 7.

NORTON, BERNARD GUSTAVUS. Educ. Queen’s univ. Ireland; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; solicitor general of British Guiana March 1863, and first puisne judge of supreme court 1868 to death. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1871. _Solicitors’ Journal xv_ 478 (1871).

NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (2 dau. of Thomas Sheridan, _d._ Cape of Good Hope 1817). _b._ 11 South Audley st. London 1808; resided with her mother in Hampton court palace 1817, then at Great George st. Westminster; _m._ (1) 30 July 1827 George Chapple Norton, he brought an action for crim. con. against lord Melbourne who was acquitted at the trial 23 June 1836; she obtained a separation 1840, he _d._ 24 Feb. 1876; she _m._ (2) 1 March 1877 sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell, 9 baronet, he _d._ 15 Jany. 1878; edited La belle assemblée, vols. 1–9, 1832 etc.; The English annual 1834; Fisher’s Drawing room scrap-book 1832 etc.; author of The dandies’ rout 1828, a satirical piece; The sorrows of Rosalie, a tale with other poems 1829; The undying one, and other poems 1830; A voice from the factories 1836, a poem; The dream and other poems 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The child of the islands 1845, a poem; Aunt Carry’s ballads for children 1847; Stuart of Dunleath, 3 vols. 1851; English laws for women in the nineteenth century 1854; Letter to the queen on lord chancellor Cranworth’s marriage and divorce bill 1855; Heimgegangen, in memory of H.R.H. the prince consort 1862; The lady of La Garaye 1862, 8 ed. 1875; Lost and saved, 3 vols. 1863, 5 ed. 1863; Old sir Douglas, 3 vols. 1867, new ed. 1871; edited The rose of Jericho, from the French 1869. _d._ 10 Upper Grosvenor st. London 15 June 1877, portrait by Mrs. Ferguson in Scottish National portrait gallery, she is depicted as Astrea the spirit of justice in Maclise’s fresco in the house of lords executed 1849; she is the heroine of George Meredith’s novel Diana of the Crossways, 3 vols. 1885. _Songs, poems and verses by Helen, lady Dufferin_ (1894) _p._ 32 _etc._; _F. Harvey’s Genealogical table of Sheridan family_ (1873); _P. Fitzgerald’s Lives of the Sheridans ii_ 352–448 (1886); _C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers_, _second series_ (1893) 121–41 _portrait_; _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 53–8 _portrait_, 355, 419, 457, 493; _C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs iii_ 349–51 (1874); _Graphic xv_ 624 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 595, 613 (1877) _portrait_; _Temple Bar Feb. 1878 pp._ 101–110; _Englishwoman’s Domestic Mag. xxiv_ 49, 67 (1878); _Traits of character by a contemporary ii_ 317–42 (1860); _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record_, _2 ed._ 1855 _p._ 761 _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers_ (1885) 101–3; _Reynold’s Miscellany i_ 233 (1847) _portrait_.

NORTON, DANIEL (1 son of William Norton of Uxbridge). _b._ 1806; timber merchant Wharf road, City road, London 1827; resided Northwood park, near Rickmansworth: first played cricket at lord Ebury’s seat, Moor park 1856; started the Northwood park club 1865, and played in all the matches; often engaged professionals to play for his team, paid Coleman to be his groundsman; in his other club at Wharf road he also played in the matches; owner of landed estates in Kent, Middlesex, Herts., and Hants. _d._ The Dell, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 10 Feb. 1888. _Cricket 23 Feb. 1888 p._ 30.

NORTON, FLEMING, stage name of Frederic Mills (youngest son of Wm. Mills of Lindridge Worcs.) _b._ 1836 or 1837; gave an entertainment at Egyptian hall, Piccadilly, Mr. Fleming Norton’s musical and mimetic entertainment entitled Perkin’s picnic 1875; acted sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera Comique theatre 20 Sept. 1879; the original capt. Flapper in Billee Taylor at Imperial theatre 30 Oct. 1880; a monologue entertainer and polyphonist; toured in Australia, New Zealand, the Straits Settlements, and India 1883–6; resided at 3 Olympia mansions, Kensington. _d._ 30 March 1895. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 3 April. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xxv_ 583 (1886) _portrait_.

NORTON, GEORGE (son of John Norton of Shoreham, Sussex). _b._ 1791; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, Michel scholar 1815–6, M.A. 1810, fellow 1816–20; barrister I.T. 28 June 1816; appointed one of common pleaders of city of London; advocate general of Bombay 1825, of Madras 1827, retired 1854; first pres. of Madras univ.; author of Commentaries on the history, constitution, and chartered franchises of the city of London 1829, 3 ed. 1869; An exposition of the privileges of the city of London in regard to the claims of non-freemen to deal within its jurisdiction 1821; Rudimentals, a series of discourses on the principles of government, Madras 1841; Native education in India 1848; A new financial scheme for India 1857; Proselytism in India, with an account of the Tinnevelly slaughter 1859; Thought, its origin and operation 1876. _d._ Wyvols court, Swallowfield, near Reading 13 July 1876.

NORTON, GEORGE CHAPPLE (2 son of Fletcher Norton, a baron of the exchequer in Scotland 1744–1820). _b._ 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Winchester and Edinb. univ.; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1825; a comr. of bankruptcy 1827–31; stipendiary magistrate at Lambeth st. Whitechapel 19 April 1831, this court was closed 28 Dec. 1844; stipendiary magistrate Lambeth police court, Kennington lane 4 Jany. 1845–67; M.P. Guildford 1826–30; recorder of Guildford Oct. 1827 to death; _m._ 1827 Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan. _d._ Wonersh park, Guildford 24 Feb. 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 223, 595 (1875); _Law Times lviii_ 349 (1875); _Times 1, 4, 8, 18, 20, 23 June 1836_.

NORTON, JOHN BRUCE (eld. son of sir John David Norton, puisne justice Madras, _d._ 24 Sept. 1843). _b._ 1815; educ. Harrow 1829–34, in the cricket eleven 1832–3, head of the school 1833; matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 13 June 1833, postmaster 1833–7, B.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1841; sheriff of Madras 1843–5; clerk of the crown in supreme court of judicature 1845 till 17 Aug. 1862, when court was abolished; counsel for paupers 1847; government pleader 1 Feb. 1853; public prosecutor 15 Aug. 1862; acting advocate general 1862–3; advocate general 2 June 1863, resigned 1871; a senator of Madras univ. and professor of law; president of Patcheapah’s Institution; lecturer on law to Indian students at the Temple, London Jany. 1873; held private classes; author of Folia opima. By J. B. N. of Merton college 1843; The rebellion in India, how to prevent another 1857; The law of evidence applicable to the courts of the East India company 1858, 8 ed. 1873; Memories of Merton 1861, 2 ed. 1865 in verse; Nemesis, a poem 1861; A selection of leading cases in the Hindu law of inheritance, 2 vols. 1870–1. _d._ 11 Pengwern road, Kensington, London 13 July 1883. _Law Times 21 July 1883 p._ 232, _28 July p._ 249.

NORTON, THOMAS (2 son of Peter Norton of Athlone, co. Westmeath). _b._ Athlone 1806; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; student Gray’s Inn 5 Feb. 1829, barrister 26 Jany. 1848, bencher 1865 to death, treasurer 1869; called to Irish bar 1835; practised in Dublin; first puisne judge British Guiana 10 June 1837 to 1844; chief justice of Newfoundland 14 Sept. 1844 to 8 Oct. 1847; chairman of committee of Reform club; contested Reading 8 Aug. 1849, Athlone 23 April 1853, and Lymington 12 July 1865; master in crown office of court of queen’s bench 1860–2; queen’s coroner and attorney 1860, resigned 1872. _d._ 13 Bolton row, Mayfair, London 12 April 1875. _bur._ Kensal green 19 April. _Law Times lix_ 39 (1875); _Irish Law Times 15 May 1875 p._ 252.

NORWAY, WILLIAM KING (son of William Norway, merchant, Wadebridge 1774–1819). _b._ Court place, Egloshayle, Cornwall 25 Sept. 1799; educ. Eton from 1811, king’s scholar 1813; solicitor at Wadebridge, Cornwall 1822–31; private sec. to sir William Molesworth, bart.; sec. of the Reform club, Pall Mall, London July 1852; author of A lecture on total abstinence from intoxicating drinks 1842. _d._ suddenly in his room at the Reform club 31 Jany. 1857. _bur._ Kensal Green 5 Feb.

NORWOOD, CHARLES MORGAN (1 son of Charles Norwood). _b._ Ashford, Kent 1825; merchant and steamship owner at Hull; head of firm of C. M. Norwood & Co. 9 Gracechurch st. London 1862, and at 21 Billiter st. 1870; president of Hull chamber of commerce 1859 and 1860; first chairman of Associated chamber of commerce of the United Kingdom which met at Westminster 21 Feb. 1865; M.P. Hull 1865–85; contested Central division of Hull 1885 and 1886; chairman of the London and India docks joint committee 1889, rejected the demands of the dock labourers in the strike of Aug. 1889. _d._ 34 Ennismore gardens, London 24 April 1891. _Pictorial World 9 May 1891 p._ 598 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 2 May 1891 p._ 563 _portrait_.

NORWOOD, JOHN (eld. son of Benjamin Norwood of Nelson st. Dublin). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; called to Irish bar Nov. 1846; joined North-East circuit; reported for the Irish Jurist; secretary of the Loan fund board 1881 to death; member of corporation of Dublin many years; chairman of Drumcondra petty sessions; prepared a large work on municipal law. _d._ Lakelands, Dundrum, co. Dublin 9 Sept. 1884. _Irish law times 20 Sept. 1884 p._ 491.

NOSOTTI, CHARLES ANDREW (son of Andrew Nosotti, wine grower Italy, _d._ 1835). _b._ Milan 1796; came to England about 1819; a jeweller at 132 Oxford st. 1819–22; looking glass and frame manufacturer, carver, gilder, and upholsterer at 398 Oxford street, London 1822 to death, where was an immense hall of mirrors. _d._ 398 Oxford st. 28 Aug. 1853. _bur._ Kensal green. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_ 203–5 (1865).

NOTE.--His son Charles Francis Nosotti removed the business to 93–99 Oxford st. in 1880, and to 123 King’s road, Chelsea in 1891. He made a mirror 108 by 180 feet, weight 2 tons, cost £600, for the ball given by The Guards to the prince and princess of Wales 26 June 1863.

NOTT, HENRY. _b._ 14 July 1810; ensign 19 Madras N.I. 24 April 1827, major 7 May 1860; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 17 Sept. 1871, L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 14 July 1880; general 22 Jany. 1889; commanded the force engaged in suppression of the rebellion in the Cuddepah district 1847; served in the Burmese war of 1852–3, and with general Whitlock’s force during the mutiny. _d._ The Elms, Great Stanmore, Middlesex 29 March 1895.

NOTTAGE, CHARLES GEORGE (only son of the succeeding). _b._ 1853; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1879; barrister I.T. 11 May 1881; captain Devon artillery militia 17 Oct. 1885 to death. _d._ 35 Collingham road, South Kensington, London 24 Dec. 1894.

NOTE.--His estate was sworn at the value of £37,824 Feb. 1895; he bequeathed to four trustees a sum of £13,000 to establish The Nottage Institute for instructing yachtsmen and other sailors in the science of navigation. He also left £2,000 for a Nottage cup for yachts, but this bequest was declared to be invalid, _Times 24 May 1895 p._ 13.

NOTTAGE, GEORGE SWAN. _b._ London 10 Nov. 1822; lived in Essex to 1852; engaged in the iron business of his uncle R. W. Kennard, M.P. Newport; established the London stereoscopic and photographic company at 54 Cheapside, and 313 Oxford st. 1856; opened a shop at 108 Regent st. 1862; obtained medals for his photographs at Vienna, Paris, and Berlin exhibitions; erected the Orleans club and other buildings in Brighton; alderman for Cordwainer ward 8 Nov. 1876 to death; sheriff 1877–8; lord mayor 1884 to death; master of the Carpenters’ Co. 1884; _m._ 1851 Martha Christiana, dau. of James Warner, she was granted rank and precedence of the widow of a knight by royal warrant 1885. _d._ Mansion house, London 11 April 1885. _Graphic xvi_ 436 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L N. lxxxi_ 444 (1877) _portrait_, _lxxxv_ 444 (1884) _portrait_; _City Press 12 Nov, 1884 pp._ 2–3, 6, _15 April 1885 pp._ 2–3.

NOTTIDGE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1767; governor of Asylum for deaf and dumb children 1797, and treasurer 1815 to death; resuscitated the Free grammar school, Bermondsey 1835; treasurer of Surrey and Kent commissioners of sewers; chairman of Wandsworth petty sessions; a well known philanthropist. _d._ Wandsworth, Surrey 17 March 1853. _bur._ at Bermondsey 23 March. _G.M. xxxix_ 550 (1853).

NOVELLO, VINCENT (son of Giuseppe Novello, an Italian). _b._ 240 Oxford road, now Oxford st. London 6 Sept. 1781; a chorister at chapel of Sardinian embassy, Duke st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1793–7; organist of Portuguese embassy chapel in South st. Grosvenor sq. 1797–22; taught the piano at Campbell’s school in Brunswick sq. 27 years, and at Hibbert’s school, Clapton 25 years; founded firm of Novello & Co. music publishers 1811; his son Joseph Alfred became music publisher at 67 Frith st. Soho 1829; pianist and conductor for the Italian opera at the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1812; one of the 30 original members of Philharmonic soc. 1812, pianist to the society, afterwards conductor, his cantata Rosalba was produced by the society 1834; the Manchester prize for the best glee of a cheerful nature was awarded to his Old May Morning 1832; helped to found the Choral harmonists’ society, which first met 2 Jany. 1833, and the Classical harmonists’ society; organist at the musical festival in Westminster abbey 1834; organist of Roman catholic chapel in Moorfields 1840–3; member of the Royal soc. of musicians where he played the viola; lived at Nice 1849 to death; published Collection of sacred music as performed at the Portuguese chapel 1811; A collection of motetts with accompaniment for the organ and piano 1815, twelve books; Twelve easy masses, 3 vols. 1816; Mozart’s masses arranged 1819; The evening service 1822, twelve books; Haydn’s masses arranged 1823; Studies in madrigalian scoring 1841, eight books; Novello’s Cathedral choir book 1848; The Fitzwilliam music, selected from the Italian composers in the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge, 5 vols 1854; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music, original and arranged. _d._ Nice 9 Aug. 1861, memorial window placed in north transept of Westminster abbey 1863. _Mary Cowden-Clarke’s Life of Vincent Novello_ (1864) _portrait_; _A short history of cheap music_, _Novello, Ewer & Co._ (1887) _portrait_.

NOTE.--On 17 Aug. 1808 he _m._ Mary Sabilla Hehl who _d._ Nice 25 July 1854. She was author of A day in Stowe gardens 1825, and wrote the words to her husband’s songs Doubt not my love 1835, Sterne’s Maria 1840, and The infant’s prayer 1845.

NOVERRE, ARTHUR. _b._ London 1815; in a government office; educ. St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Stanmore, Middlesex 1838–59; removed to 25 South st. Park lane, London 1859 where he had a high class practice; fellow Med. and Chir. soc. 1849, member of council 1870–71. _d._ 16 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 22 April 1878. _Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. viii_ 385 (1880).

NOWELL, JOHN. _b._ Todmorden, Lancs. 1802; a hand loom weaver; a twister at Fielden Brothers’ works, Waterside, Todmorden to death; botanized over greater part of England, Wales and Ireland, and studied crypto-gamic botany; discovered a cavern moss, schistostega pennata 1840; assisted Thomas Baines in his Flora of Yorkshire; for Baines and Baker’s Yorkshire Flora 1854, he edited The mosses of of the county; the mosses Nowellia curvifolia, Zygodon Nowellii and Lastrea montana Nowelliana were called after him. _d._ Todmorden 1867. _bur._ Cross stone. _Manchester quarterly i_ 205–18 (1882).

NOWELL, JOHN. _b._ Farnley Wood, Yorkshire 1 March 1794; educ. Almondbury gram. sch.; gave lectures in Huddersfield on chemistry; engaged in the fancy trade; aided in founding Huddersfield college; an original member of Archæological soc.; made a copy of the first register book of Almondbury parish 1864; author of An essay on farms of industry, and an essay on cottage allotments, also an essay on self-supporting schools of industry and mental discipline 1844; Manual of field gardening or Belgian agriculture made easy 1845, 2 ed. 1846. _d._ Almondbury 4 March 1869. _Hulbert’s Annals_ (1882) 63, 144, 256, 448–52.

NOWOSIELSKI, FELIX. _b._ Bruinow, Poland 1800; lieutenant colonel in the Polish army of 1831; knight of the military order Virtuti Militari; an exile in London. _d._ London 22 April 1864. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.

NOYES, THOMAS HERBERT (eld. son of rev. Thomas Herbert Noyes, V. of Bath-Easton, Somerset Dec. 1797 until his death 8 Aug. 1812). _b._ 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 11 May 1830; F.G.S.; author of Some notices of the family of Newton 1857; An Idyll of the Weald, with other lays and legends 1868; Hymns of modern man 1872; translated Lyrics and bucolics, the eclogues of Virgil, a selection of the odes of Horace, &c. 1868; author with G. de Mirelles Soares of Mind or more than matter, a spirit drama, by Pro and Con 1873. _d._ Craig-en-ross, Millport, Scotland 19 Dec. 1881.

NUGEE, GEORGE (youngest son of Francis James Nugee of St. James’s, London, tailor, d. 1844). _b._ London 24 July 1819; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., senior classical scholar, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; student at Inner Temple; curate to rev. W. J. E. Bennett at St. Paul’s, Wilton place, London 1845; warden of the House of mercy at Park house, Highgate 1846, a most successful penitentiary; principal of St. Paul’s mission college Dean st. Soho, London; sec. of London diocesan home mission; V. of Wymering and R. of Widley, Hants Jany. 1859–72; founded the order of St. Augustine at Wymering 1872; founded a May meeting at Wymering with a May Queen, and in London with a Rose Queen; founded the Sisterhood of St. Mary the Virgin at Wymering, a nursing society partly paid by the English government; worked in conjunction with Father Ignatius; founded St. Austin’s priory New Kent road, London 1872, provost 1872 to death; author of The necessity for Christian education to elevate the native character in India 1846; Instruction on confirmation 1848; Emmaus or things in the way 1848; The holy women of the gospel, lectures 1856; A penitential. By G. N. 1857; The words from the cross as applied to our own deathbeds 1856; St. Austin’s mission handbook of prayer and praise 1875; England and the Jews, their destiny and her duty 1881. _d._ at residence of his brother-in-law, rev. A. J. Street, Talaton rectory, Devon 5 Oct. 1892. _The very rev. provost Nugee, M.A._, _a retrospect reprinted from the South London gazette_ (1879); _Biograph iv_ 344–50 (1880); _Church portrait journal iii_ 111 (1879) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiii_ 626 (1885) _portrait_.

NUGENT, CHARLES LAVALLIN (son of colonel Andrew Nugent of Portaferry, co. Down). _b._ 4 Dec. 1815; ensign 58 foot 21 Aug. 1835, major 18 July 1851; major depôt battalion 28 Jany. 1859, placed on h.p. 1 June 1865; deputy judge advocate 1 April 1865 to 30 June 1875; L.G. 16 March 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; served in New Zealand war 1845–6; commanded the advance guard which penetrated the forest at Ruapekapeka, present at the capture of that pah. _d._ Southsea 3 Nov. 1884.

NUGENT, SIR EDMOND. Alderman of Dublin 15 Jany. 1820, lord mayor 1827–28; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1828; resided at Airfield, St. Dolough’s, co. Dublin. _d._ 1856.

NUGENT, GEORGE HODGES. Vice-consul at Arica, Peru 16 March 1846, and consul there 16 June 1871 to death; acting chargé d’affaires at Lima 13 June to 4 Sept. 1874. _d._ Mollendo 25 March 1879. _I.L.N. lxxv_ 505 (1879) _portrait_.

NUGENT, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1814; proprietor of royal Cambridge music hall, Commercial st. Whitechapel, London 1869–79. _d._ at his house 59 Maida Yale, London 8 March 1884. _bur._ St. Mary’s cemetery, Kensal Green 14 March.

NUGENT, LAVALL, Count Nugent (elder son of John Nugent of Ballinacor, co. Wicklow). _b._ Ballinacor 3 or 30 Nov. 1777; a cadet in the Austrian engineer corps 1 Nov. 1793, captain in the corps to 1 March 1799 when transferred to the quartermaster general’s staff; served in the Italian campaign 1799, and the Marengo campaign 1800; won the cross of Maria Theresa for the battle of Monte Croce 10 April 1800; commandant of 61st infantry regiment 1807–9; served on the staff during campaign of 1809; placed again on active list of Austrian army 1 July 1813; persuaded the Croats to fight against the French on Austria declaring war 11 Aug. 1813; drove the French behind the Isongo after many fights, besieged Trieste castle 16–30 Oct. 1813 when it surrendered; fought actions at Ferrara, Forli and Ravenna, and blockaded Venice Dec. 1813; defeated the French at Reggio, Parma and Piacenza 1814; honorary K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815; as commander of a division of Marshall Bianchi’s army entered Florence 15 April 1815; invested Rome early in May 1815; commanded the Austrian troops in Naples 1816; created a prince of the Holy Roman empire 1816; colonel proprietor of 30th infantry regiment 1816; commanded the Neapolitan army as captain-general 1817–20; created a magnate of Hungary 1826; commanded a division at Venice 1828; master of the ordnance and commander of the troops in Lower Austria, the Tyrol, &c. 1830–40; general 1838; commanded in the Banat 1841–2, and in Lower Austria 1843–8; marched into Hungary with a reserve corps which he had organized on breaking out of the revolution 11 Sept. 1848; effected capitulation of Essig 14 Feb. 1849; organised a second reserve corps in Styria, but was driven back towards Servia July 1849; field-marshal Nov. 1849; present as a volunteer at battle of Solferino 24 June 1859. _d._ Bosilgevo, near Karlstadt, Croatia 21 Aug. 1862.

NUGENT, SIR OLIVER (son of hon. Nicholas Nugent, M.D.) _b._ Antigua 1815; educ. Edinb. univ.; private sec. to sir Henry Light, governor of Antigua 1836; speaker of legislative assembly Antigua 1845; vice-president of legislative council 1867 and president 1869; commanded Antigua yeomanry cavalry 20 years; member of the executive council of Antigua and the Leeward islands to death; knighted at Osborne 21 Feb. 1872; president of legislative council of the Leeward islands 1872–81. _d._ Millars, Antigua 28 Aug. 1894.

NUGENT, SIR PERCY FITZGERALD, 1 Baronet (son of Thomas Fitzgerald). _b._ Baltinoran, co. Westmeath 29 Sept. 1797; educ. Old hall green, Herts.; assumed name of Nugent 14 Sept. 1831; created baronet 30 Sept. 1831; M.P. Westmeath 1847–52. _d._ Donore, near Multifarnham, co. Westmeath 25 June 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_ 23 (1874).

NUGENT, ST. GEORGE MERVYN (6 son of C. E. Nugent of Farran Connell house, co. Cavan). _b._ 19 Jany. 1825; ensign 29 foot 25 Oct. 1842, captain 15 March 1853; served in Sutlej campaign against the Sikhs 1845, present at Ferozeshah, Modkee, and Sobraon where wounded; captain 96 foot 26 Dec. 1854 to 18 Nov. 1859; D.A.A.G. Aldershot 1858–61; A.Q.M.G. Nova Scotia 1861–7, made arrangements for arrival in Halifax of 12,000 men and for sending them on to Rivièrè de Loup in winter; A.Q.M.G. at head quarters, Ireland 1870–5; D.Q.M.G. Malta 1877–8, where he received the Indian troops; A.A. and Q.M.G. North Britain 1878–80; lieut. col. 13 March 1880; hon. M.G. 21 July 1880. _d._ 29 May 1884. _Times 4 June 1884 p._ 10.

NUN, RICHARD. Called to Irish bar 1808; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844. _d._ 1867.

NUNN, ANN (dau. of captain Boyle of the R.N.). _b._ Southampton 1811; first appeared Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. London as Young Norval in Douglas 1824; acted at the New Pavilion, the Queen’s, and Sadler’s Wells; made a provincial tour; acted at the Queen’s, London with Madame Vestris 1829; had the entire lead at Sadler’s Wells under Osbaldiston for one season; acted in Nottingham where she was the original Pauline in the Lady of Lyons in the provinces; acted in Nottingham, Worcester, Liverpool, Norwich, Preston, and Sheffield circuits; appeared at Bradford in West York circuit as Julia in the Hunchback 12 Aug. 1844, remained in the circuit 12 years, often took the parts of Othello, Romeo, Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, and William in Black eyed Susan; was good as Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Constance in the Love Chase, and Miami in the Green Bushes; often played 14 different characters in a week; _m._ John Nunn a comedian at Bradford; made her last appearance as Mrs. Haller in The stranger and William in Black eyed Susan at Bradford 1863. _d._ at the residence of her son John F. Nunn, Granville road, Frizinghall, Bradford 1 Nov. 1890. _bur._ Undercliff cemet. 4 Nov. _The Era 8 Nov. 1890._

NUNNELEY, THOMAS (son of John Nunneley). _b._ Market Harborough, Leics. March 1809; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 12 July 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a surgeon at Leeds 1833 to death; surgeon to the Eye and ear hospital, Leeds, 20 years; lectured on anatomy, physiology and surgery in Leeds school of medicine till 1866; surgeon to Leeds general infirmary 1864; gave evidence at the trials of the poisoners Wm. Palmer and Wm. Dove 1856; removed the whole tongue for cancer 1861; performed upwards of 1,000 operations for cataract; author of A treatise on erysipelas 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Anatomical tables 1838; On anæsthesia and anæsthetic substances generally, Worcester 1849; On the organs of vision, their anatomy and physiology 1858. _d._ 22 Park place, Leeds 1 June 1870. _Barker’s Photographs of medical men ii_ 33 (1867) _portrait_; _Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. vi_ 354 (1870); _Lancet i_ 823 (1870).

NURSE, WILLIAM MOUNTFORD. _b._ 1789; a builder; erected some of the terraces which surround Regent’s park, London; resided at 5 Langham place; built the Polytechnic, Regent st. 1837, in Dec. 1838 he leased it to the Polytechnic Institution, which had been incorporated by charter Aug. 1838, erected a new theatre adjoining the building 1847, the Institution took a lease of the new theatre 1848. _d._ York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 7 Dec. 1855.

NUSSEY, JOHN. L.S.A. 1818; apothecary at 4 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London; apothecary to prince Albert to Dec. 1861; joint apothecary in ordinary to her majesty and the royal household to death; representative of the Apothecaries society of London in the general medical council 29 Oct. 1858, resigned 21 March 1862, treasurer of the council 25 Nov. 1858, resigned 23 June 1860. _d._ April 1862.

NUTT, DAVID (son of William Nutt, connected with Truman and Hanbury’s brewery, London). _b._ 177 Brick lane, Spitalfields, London 3 April 1810; educ. Merchant Tailors’ school; clerk in a large mercantile firm in the city; bookseller at 158 Fleet st. London 1837–50, and at 270 Strand, London 1850 to death; bookseller and publisher to Winchester college at College st. Winchester to death; printed A catalogue of ancient and modern books, Hebrew and Syriac literature illustrative of the sacred writings 1856, often quoted by Brunet and Grasse; A catalogue of theological books in foreign languages 1857. _d._ 270 Strand, London 28 Nov. 1863. _bur._ at Norwood cemet. _G.M. xvi_ 126 (1864).

NUTTALL, JOHN, known as Soldier. _b._ Barnsley 1835; height 5 ft. 9¾ in., weight 11 stone 3 lbs.; with 41 yards start won first prize in a 285 yards handicap Hyde park, Sheffield 8 March 1859; took first prize in 300 yard handicap Higginshaw grounds, Oldham 12 March 1859; beat W. Hall 440 yards £25 a side, Copenhagen grounds, Manchester 19 March 1859; won first prize in a 315 yards handicap, Hyde park 12 July 1859; defeated Siah Albison 440 yards £50 a side, time 51 seconds Copenhagen ground 9 Dec. 1859, and James Hancock 440 yards £50 a side, 11 Feb. 1860; matched with T. Sherdon, 300 yards, £50, but the latter paid forfeit 5 Nov. 1870. _d._ Barnsley 15 Oct. 1875. _Illust. sporting news v_ 57 (1866) _portrait_; _Bell’s Life in London 30 Oct. 1875 p._ 4.

NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of Jonas Nuttall of Blackburn, Lancs. printer). _b._ Long Preston, Settle, Yorkshire 5 Jany. 1786; brought up as a printer; went to the U.S. of America March 1807, visited nearly all the states and made more discoveries in botany than any other explorer; ascended the rivers Missouri 1811, and the Arkansas 1819; explored the Oregon and Upper California 1834; curator of the botanic gardens and professor of natural history Harvard univ. 1825–34; returned to England 1842 and resided at Nutgrove, near St. Helens, Lancs. to death; author of The genera of North American plants and a catalogue of the species for the year 1817, Philadelphia 2 vols. 1818; A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, Philadelphia 1821; Introduction to systematic and physiological botany, Boston 1827; A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada 1834, 2 ed. 1840; The North American sylva, trees not described by F. A. Michaux, Philadelphia 3 vols. 1842–9. d. Nutgrove 10 Sept. 1859. _Asa Gray’s Scientific papers ii_ 75, _&c._ (1889); _Elias Durand’s Life of T. Nuttall_; _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1860) 26–9; _Montague Chamberlain’s Ornithology of United States_ (1891) _pp. v–vii_.

NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of George R. Nuttall, M.D., physician of the Westminster dispensary). _b._ London 7 Oct. 1828; ensign 29 Bombay N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, adjutant Dec. 1851 to Nov. 1856, captain 23 Nov. 1856; captain Bombay staff corps 1861, lieut. col. 2 Aug. 1871; served in the Persian expedition 1857; on special police duty against disaffected Bheels and Coolies in the Nassick districts 9 Nov. 1857 to 25 March 1861, where he organised a corps of one of the wildest tribes of the Deccan, the Coolies of the Western Ghauts; superintendent of police at Kaira, Sholapur and Kulladgi successively, June 1860 to Aug. 1865; second in command of the land transport of Abyssinian expedition Oct. 1867; second in command of 25 Bombay N.I. Aug. 1868 to Feb. 1871; commandant of 22 Bombay N.I. April 1871 to April 1876; acting commandant of Sind frontier force 5 April 1876, commandant 25 Jany. 1877 to 20 Nov. 1878; commanded a brigade in Afghanistan 20 Nov. 1878, and the brigade left for the occupation of Kandahar 1879; brigadier general of cavalry brigade at Kandahar 28 May to 14 Aug. 1880; led the cavalry charge at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, and took part in battle of Kandahar and pursuit of the Afghan army 1 Sept. 1880; L.G. 1 Dec. 1888. _d._ Insch, Aberdeenshire 30 Aug. 1890. _A. Forbes’s Afghan wars_ (1892) 299.

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OAKELEY, FREDERICK (youngest child of sir Charles Oakeley, 1 baronet, governor of Madras 1751–1826). _b._ the Abbey house, Shrewsbury 5 Sept. 1802; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 June 1820, B.A. 1824; chaplain fellow of Balliol coll. 1827–45, tutor 1830–7; prebendary of Lichfield 23 Jany. 1832 to 1845; select preacher at Oxford 1831; one of the public examiners to the univ. 1835; Whitehall preacher 1837; incumbent of St. Margaret’s chapel, Marylebone, London 1839–45, where he introduced ritualism; asserted in two pamphlets, published 1845, a claim to hold, as distinct from teaching, all Roman doctrine, for doing this his licence was revoked by court of arches and he was suspended from all clerical duty in the province of Canterbury 30 June 1845; joined Newman’s community at Littlemore Sept. 1845, received into Church of Rome at St. Clement’s chapel, Oxford 29 Oct. 1845, confirmed by bishop Wiseman at Birmingham 31 Oct.; theological student at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, Herts. Jany. 1846 to Aug. 1848; was in charge of church of St. John the Evangelist, Duncan terrace, Islington 22 Jany. 1850 to death; canon of Westminster 1852 to death; author of Sermons, preached chiefly in Whitehall chapel 1839; The order and ceremonial of the mass 1848; The youthful martyrs of Rome 1856, a drama adapted from cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola; The church of the Bible 1857; Lyra Liturgica. By F. O. 1865; Historical notes on the Tractarian movement 1865; The priest on the mission 1871; The voice of creation 1876; and of upwards of 35 other works. _d._ 39 Duncan terrace, City road, London 29 Jany. 1880. _Reminiscences of Oxford_, _edited by L. M. Q. Couch_ (1892) 301–45; _A.R._ (1845) 95–6; _C. Hodgson’s Report of the case Hodgson v. rev. F. Oakeley_ (1845).

OAKELEY, SOULDEN. _b._ 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June 1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. _d._ Oakeley, Shropshire 17 Oct. 1856.

OAKES, CHARLES HENRY (youngest son of lieut. general sir Henry Oakes, 2 baronet 1756–1827). _b._ 25 Nov. 1810; barrister M.T. 5 May 1837; edited Who’s Who 1851 to death. _d._ 16 May 1864.

OAKES, JOHN WRIGHT. _b._ Sproston house, near Middlewich, Cheshire 9 July 1820; exhibited fruit-pieces at Liverpool academy 1839 &c., member of the academy, hon. secretary several years; a landscape painter about 1843 to death; exhibited 68 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 11 at Suffolk st. 1847–80; resided in London 1859 to death; associate of Institute of painters in water-colours 1874, resigned 1875; A.R.A. 2 April 1876; honorary M.R.S.A. Nov. 1883. _d._ Leam house, 34 Addison road, Kensington 8 July 1887. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 469 (1876) _portrait_; _Graphic xiii_ 462, 476 (1876) _portrait_.

OAKES, THOMAS GEORGE ALEXANDER. _b._ 2 June 1827; cornet 12 lancers 16 Jany. 1846, lieut. col. 5 March 1861 to 25 March 1871; M.G. 17 May 1869; inspecting officer of yeomanry cavalry 1 April 1873–7; C.B. 5 July 1865. _d._ Farnham 22 Aug. 1878.

OAKEY, JOHN. _b._ 1813; glass paper manufacturer at 3 Manor place, Walworth, London 1833, subsequently manufacturer of emery, black lead, emery and glass cloths, glass, emery and flint papers, the Wellington knife polish and knife boards, and other specialties for household use; erected the Wellington mills, Westminster bridge road 1874, where he carried on business to his death, with his son Herbert Oakey as J. Oakey and sons; gained prize medals at Philadelphia 1876, Boston 1883, and the Crystal palace 1884. _d._ St. John’s, Victoria road, Surbiton 10 Jany. 1887.

OAKLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (only son of Richard Cater Oakley of Chatham, capt. 20 regt.) _b._ Brompton, Kent 9 Jany. 1832; educ. Truro gram. sch. and Rugby; exhibitioner Wadham coll. Oxf. 1850; scholar of Pembroke coll. 1851; demy of Magd. coll. 1853–5; B.A. 1855, B.C.L. and M.A. 1857; chaplain to a brigade of artillery in the Crimea 1855–6; R. of Wickwar, Gloucs. 1856–63; sec. to Church missionary soc. 1857; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent garden, London Sept. 1863 to death; author of The English bible and its history 1855; A son born to Naomi, a sermon on baptism of prince Albert Victor 1864. _d._ Rhyl, North Wales 15 Sept. 1865. _G.M. xix_ 526, 651 (1865); _Times 19 Sept. 1865 p._ 7, _25 Sept. p._ 12.

OAKLEY, HERBERT WILLIAM. _b._ Taunton Jany. 1848; assistant to Boyd-Dawkins, professor of natural history in Owen’s college, Manchester 1870–7; in the Cape mounted police 1877–9; distinguished himself in the Moirosi campaign; assistant curator of colonial museum, Cape Town Sept. 1879 to death; with W. B. Dawkins, F.R.S. he wrote the sections on proboscidea, hyracoidea, and ungulata in P. M. Duncan’s Cassell’s Natural history, vol. ii, 273 et seq. (1878). _d._ Cape Town 14 Nov. 1884.

OAKLEY, JOHN (son of John Oakley of Blackheath, Kent, land agent). _b._ Frindsbury near Rochester 28 Oct. 1834; educ. Rochester cathedral school and at Hereford gram. sch.; scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1852; president of the Oxford Union 1856; B.A. 1857, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1881; C. of St. Luke’s, Berwick st. London 1858–9; C. of St. James’s, Piccadilly 1859–67; secretary to London diocesan board of education 1864–8; V. of St. Saviour’s, Hoxton 1867–81; declined bishopric of Nelson, New Zealand 1865; dean of Carlisle 23 Nov. 1881, installed 6 Jany. 1882; dean of Manchester Nov. 1883 to death; wrote in the Manchester Guardian under name of Vicesimus a memoir of Henry Nutcombe Oxenham and a series of papers on Dean Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men 1888–9; author of The Christian aspect and application of the decalogue 1865; The conscience clause, its history 1866. _d._ Deganwy, near Llandudno 10 June 1891. _bur._ Chiselhurst, stained glass memorial window erected in south aisle of Manchester cathedral. _Health Journal (Manchester) June 1887 pp._ 11–13 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 21 June 1890 p._ 774 _portrait_; _Pictorial World 21 June 1890 p._ 788 _portrait_.

OAKLEY, OCTAVIUS. _b._ Bermondsey, London 27 April 1800; placed with a cloth manufacturer near Leeds; a portrait painter at Derby about 1825, removed to Leamington 1836; came to London about 1841; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 1842, member 1844, exhibited 210 landscapes and groups of gipsies, which gained him the sobriquet of Gipsy Oakley; exhibited 30 water-colour portraits at the R.A. 1826–60; there was a sale of his works at Christie’s March 1869. _d._ 7 Chepstow villas, Bayswater, London 1 March 1867. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii_ 268–71 (1891).

OAKLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1818; governor of Somerset county gaol, Taunton 1850 to death; author of Observations on constabulary and police 1853; Observations on the grand jury system 1853. _d._ the gaol, Upper High st. Taunton 6 March 1880.

OASTLER, RICHARD (youngest child of Robert Oastler of Leeds, steward of the Fixby estates, Huddersfield, _d._ July 1820). _b._ St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 20 Dec. 1789; educ. the Moravian school at Fulneck; articled to Charles Watson, architect at Wakefield, 4 years; a commission agent, failed 1820; steward to Thomas Thornhill at Fixby hall 5 Jany. 1821, discharged for opposing the poor-law comrs. 28 May 1838; began his attempt to reform the factories by a letter to the Leeds Mercury entitled ‘Yorkshire Slavery’ 29 Sept. 1830; became known as ‘The factory king’; published letters on the ten-hours day and similar subjects in some of the unstamped periodicals; confined more than three years in the Fleet prison, from 9 Dec. 1840, for a debt of £2,000; published The Fleet Papers, being letters to Thomas Thornhill, Esquire, of Riddlesworth, from Richard Oastler his prisoner in the Fleet 1841; an Oastler liberation fund was started 1842, released from prison Feb. 1844; made a public entry into Huddersfield 20 Feb. 1844; agitated for a ten hours’ day 1844–7; edited The Home, weekly paper 3 May 1851 to June 1855; edited with rev. J. R. Stephens a weekly journal entitled the Ashton Chronicle; lived at South Hill cottage, Guildford 1845 to death; author of Vicarial tithes, Halifax 1827; The Huddersfield dissenter stark staring mad, because the mask has fallen 1835; The devil-to-do amongst the dissenters in Huddersfield 1835; Slavery in Yorkshire 1835; More work for the Leeds new thief catchers 1836; Damnation, eternal damnation to the fiend begotten coarser food new poor law 1837; Brougham versus Brougham on the new poor law 1847; Factory legislation 1855. _d._ Harrogate 22 Aug. 1861. _bur._ Kirkstall churchyard, bronze statue by J. B. Philip at Bradford, unveiled 15 May 1869. _Sketch of the life and opinions of R. Oastler_, Leeds (1838) _portrait_; _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 499–503, 671; _Spence’s Eminent men of Leeds pp._ 53–9 _with portrait_; _R. Oastler’s Fleet papers_, _vol._ 1, _number_ 12 _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world viii_ 245 (1861) _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_ 156 (1844) _portrait_.