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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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