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Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q

VOLUME II. (continued 30)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NORMAN, Alexander (3 son of Luke Norman of Dublin). b. 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; called to bar in Ireland 1833; Q.C. 26 May 1858; had a large equity practice; resided 26 Rutland square, Dublin; while on a visit d. of heart disease by the roadside at Lynton 14 Sept. 1870. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 22 Sept. The North Devon Journal 22 Sept. 1870 p. 6, 29 Sept. p. 5; Law Journal v 547–48 (1870).

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

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

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

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

NORMANBY, George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2 Marquess of (only son of the preceding). b. 23 July 1819; styled viscount Normanby 1831–8, and earl of Mulgrave 1838–63; ensign Scots fusilier guards 9 Nov. 1838, sold out 29 Sept. 1843; major North York regt. of militia 1846–53; M.P. Scarborough 1847–51; contested Scarborough 19 July 1851; M.P. Scarborough 1852–7; comptroller of the household 23 July 1851 to 27 Feb. 1852, and treasurer 4 Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 7 Aug. 1851; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia Jany. 1858 to May 1866; second marquess of Normanby 28 July 1863; hon. col. Tower hamlets rifle volunteers 23 Dec. 1863; lord in waiting to the queen 8 May to 6 July 1866, and 17 Dec. 1868 to 17 Dec. 1869; high steward of Hull; capt. of hon. corps of gentlemen at arms 17 Dec. 1869 to Jany. 1871; governor and commander in chief of Queensland 8 April 1871 to 1874, of New Zealand 5 Sept. 1874 to 1878, and of Victoria 24 Feb. 1879 to April 1884; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874, G.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; G.C.B. 9 Jany. 1885. d. 6 Brunswick ter. Brighton 3 April 1890. bur. Lythe church, Whitby 10 April. Athenæum ii 504–6 (1877); W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers (1886) 261 portrait; C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield i 306 (1852) portrait; Graphic 26 April 1890 p. 533 portrait; I.L.N. xxxii 200 (1858) portrait, xlviii 144 (1866) portrait; Governor Normanby’s visit to Gympie, with account of the Gympie gold fields, Gympie (1873); The visit of his excellency the governor of the North. Auckland (1876).

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

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

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

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

NORRIS, James (son of rev. Wm. Norris of Warblington, Hants.). b. Warblington 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1829, D.D. 1843; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815, fellow 10 Oct. 1822–43, bursar 1830, president 16 Sept. 1843 to death; the college purchased the Lee Grange estate in Bucks. for £57,500 June 1869. d. 16 April 1872. bur. in college cloisters, where is memorial tablet. T. Fowler’s History of Corpus Christi college (1893) 75, 304, 318–9, 326.

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

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

NORRIS, John Thomas (youngest son of Edmund Norris of Sutton Courtney). b. 1808; contested Abingdon 13 Dec. 1854 and 13 July 1865; M.P. Abingdon 1857–65. d. Sutton Courtney, Abingdon, Berks. 15 Jany. 1870. I.L.N. xxxiii 92, 94 (1858) portrait, lvi 131 (1870).

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

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

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

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

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

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

NORTH, John. b. 1852; conductor of Huddersfield choral soc., of the Glee and madrigal soc., and of the Philharmonic soc. to death; choirmaster Huddersfield parish church to death. d. Spring-bank, Fartown, Huddersfield 12 Oct. 1891.

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

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

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

NORTH, William. b. Nottingham 1807; a schoolmaster Nottingham, then inspector of corn returns; played in Nottingham v. Sheffield on the Forest ground, Nottingham 20–22 Aug. 1827; author of Nottingham cricket scores 1771–1829, 1830. d. 6 March 1855. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 32 (1862).

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

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

NORTHAMPTON, Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2 Marquess of (2 son of 1 Marquess of Northampton 1760–1828). b. Stoke park, Wiltshire 1 Jany. 1790; styled lord Compton 1796–1812; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810, LL.D. 1835; capt. central regt. Northamptonshire militia 10 Sept. 1810; styled earl Compton 1812–28; M.P. Northampton 1812–20; lived in Italy 1820–30; succeeded as 2 marquess 24 May 1828; recorder of Northampton 1828–32; F.R.S. 27 May 1830, president 30 Nov. 1838, resigned 30 Nov. 1849; F.S.A. 10 March 1836; F.G.S., president; president of British Association at Bristol 1836, and Swansea 1848; president of Royal soc. of literature 26 April 1849 to death; a trustee of the British museum 1849; D.C.L. of Oxford 24 June 1850; edited Irene, a poem by Margaret, marchioness of Northampton 1833; The Tribute, a collection of unpublished poems 1837; author of Observations on the motion of sir R. Heron, M.P. respecting vacating seats in parliament on the acceptance of office 1835. d. Castle Ashby, near Northampton 17 Jany. 1851. bur. Castle Ashby 25 Jany. P. F. Robinson’s Vitruvius Britannicus (1847) part 3 pp. 1–24; H. Drummond’s Noble British families i 12–6 (1846); G.M. xxxv 425–9 (1851); I.L.N. xviii 59, 60 (1851) portrait; Athenæum 25 Jany. 1851 pp. 110–11; Doyle’s Baronage ii 631 (1886) portrait; Times 18 Jany. 1851 p. 5, 22 Jany. p. 5.

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

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

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

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

NORTHEY, Francis Vernon (son of E. R. Northey of Epsom). b. 1836; educ. Eton, one of the cricket eleven 1852–4; ensign 60 foot 22 March 1855, instructor in musketry 3 Nov. 1858, major 5 July 1873 to death; commanded the third battalion in Zululand; mortally wounded at battle of Ginghilovo 2 April 1879, and d. 7 April 1879. I.L.N. lxxiv 576 (1879) portrait; Graphic xix 584 (1879) portrait.

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

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

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

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

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

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

NORTON, Bernard Gustavus. Educ. Queen’s univ. Ireland; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; solicitor general of British Guiana March 1863, and first puisne judge of supreme court 1868 to death. d. Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 478 (1871).

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

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

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

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

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

NORTON, John Bruce (eld. son of sir John David Norton, puisne justice Madras, d. 24 Sept. 1843). b. 1815; educ. Harrow 1829–34, in the cricket eleven 1832–3, head of the school 1833; matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 13 June 1833, postmaster 1833–7, B.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1841; sheriff of Madras 1843–5; clerk of the crown in supreme court of judicature 1845 till 17 Aug. 1862, when court was abolished; counsel for paupers 1847; government pleader 1 Feb. 1853; public prosecutor 15 Aug. 1862; acting advocate general 1862–3; advocate general 2 June 1863, resigned 1871; a senator of Madras univ. and professor of law; president of Patcheapah’s Institution; lecturer on law to Indian students at the Temple, London Jany. 1873; held private classes; author of Folia opima. By J. B. N. of Merton college 1843; The rebellion in India, how to prevent another 1857; The law of evidence applicable to the courts of the East India company 1858, 8 ed. 1873; Memories of Merton 1861, 2 ed. 1865 in verse; Nemesis, a poem 1861; A selection of leading cases in the Hindu law of inheritance, 2 vols. 1870–1. d. 11 Pengwern road, Kensington, London 13 July 1883. Law Times 21 July 1883 p. 232, 28 July p. 249.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTTAGE, George Swan. b. London 10 Nov. 1822; lived in Essex to 1852; engaged in the iron business of his uncle R. W. Kennard, M.P. Newport; established the London stereoscopic and photographic company at 54 Cheapside, and 313 Oxford st. 1856; opened a shop at 108 Regent st. 1862; obtained medals for his photographs at Vienna, Paris, and Berlin exhibitions; erected the Orleans club and other buildings in Brighton; alderman for Cordwainer ward 8 Nov. 1876 to death; sheriff 1877–8; lord mayor 1884 to death; master of the Carpenters’ Co. 1884; m. 1851 Martha Christiana, dau. of James Warner, she was granted rank and precedence of the widow of a knight by royal warrant 1885. d. Mansion house, London 11 April 1885. Graphic xvi 436 (1877) portrait; I.L N. lxxxi 444 (1877) portrait, lxxxv 444 (1884) portrait; City Press 12 Nov, 1884 pp. 2–3, 6, 15 April 1885 pp. 2–3.

NOTTIDGE, William. b. 1767; governor of Asylum for deaf and dumb children 1797, and treasurer 1815 to death; resuscitated the Free grammar school, Bermondsey 1835; treasurer of Surrey and Kent commissioners of sewers; chairman of Wandsworth petty sessions; a well known philanthropist. d. Wandsworth, Surrey 17 March 1853. bur. at Bermondsey 23 March. G.M. xxxix 550 (1853).

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

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

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

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

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

NOWOSIELSKI, Felix. b. Bruinow, Poland 1800; lieutenant colonel in the Polish army of 1831; knight of the military order Virtuti Militari; an exile in London. d. London 22 April 1864. bur. Highgate cemetery.

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

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

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

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

NUGENT, George Hodges. Vice-consul at Arica, Peru 16 March 1846, and consul there 16 June 1871 to death; acting chargé d’affaires at Lima 13 June to 4 Sept. 1874. d. Mollendo 25 March 1879. I.L.N. lxxv 505 (1879) portrait.

NUGENT, George William. b. 1814; proprietor of royal Cambridge music hall, Commercial st. Whitechapel, London 1869–79. d. at his house 59 Maida Yale, London 8 March 1884. bur. St. Mary’s cemetery, Kensal Green 14 March.

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

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

NUGENT, Sir Percy Fitzgerald, 1 Baronet (son of Thomas Fitzgerald). b. Baltinoran, co. Westmeath 29 Sept. 1797; educ. Old hall green, Herts.; assumed name of Nugent 14 Sept. 1831; created baronet 30 Sept. 1831; M.P. Westmeath 1847–52. d. Donore, near Multifarnham, co. Westmeath 25 June 1874. I.L.N. lxv 23 (1874).

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

NUN, Richard. Called to Irish bar 1808; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844. d. 1867.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OAKELEY, Soulden. b. 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June 1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. d. Oakeley, Shropshire 17 Oct. 1856.

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

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

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

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

OAKLEY, Charles Edward (only son of Richard Cater Oakley of Chatham, capt. 20 regt.) b. Brompton, Kent 9 Jany. 1832; educ. Truro gram. sch. and Rugby; exhibitioner Wadham coll. Oxf. 1850; scholar of Pembroke coll. 1851; demy of Magd. coll. 1853–5; B.A. 1855, B.C.L. and M.A. 1857; chaplain to a brigade of artillery in the Crimea 1855–6; R. of Wickwar, Gloucs. 1856–63; sec. to Church missionary soc. 1857; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent garden, London Sept. 1863 to death; author of The English bible and its history 1855; A son born to Naomi, a sermon on baptism of prince Albert Victor 1864. d. Rhyl, North Wales 15 Sept. 1865. G.M. xix 526, 651 (1865); Times 19 Sept. 1865 p. 7, 25 Sept. p. 12.

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

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

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

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

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

OATES, Francis (2 son of Edward Oates of Meanwoodside, Yorkshire). b. Meanwoodside 6 April 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 Feb. 1861; collected birds and insects in Central America 1871; F.R.G.S. 1872; sailed with his brother W. E. Oates from Southampton for Natal 5 March 1873; left Maritzburg 16 May 1873 and explored the Matabele country north of the Limpopo river; started again 3 Nov. 1874, arrived on the banks of the Zambesi 31 Dec., after collecting many objects of natural history. d. of a fever near the Makalaka kraal, about 80 miles north of the Tati river 5 Feb. 1875. Matabele land and the Victoria falls, a naturalist’s wanderings in the interior of South Africa by F. Oates, ed. by C. J. Oates 1881, 2 ed. (1889) memoir pp. xix–xlii and portrait; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlv, p. clii (1875).

OATES, James Poole. b. 1768; ensign 88 foot 3 March 1797, captain 19 Oct. 1804, placed on h.p. 26 March 1818; served in the West Indies, East Indies, Egypt, and South America; present at almost every siege and battle in the Peninsular war; received the gold medal for Egypt and the silver war medal with ten clasps; lieut. col. in the army 22 July 1830; K.H. 1837. d. 6 Linden grove, Notting hill, London 4 April 1863.

OATES, William Wilfrid. b. 1828; publisher of Roman catholic books, of the firm of Burns, Lambert and Oates 17 Portman st. Portman sq. London 1865, subsequently of the firm of Burns and Oates to death. d. 28 Dec. 1876.

O’BRIEN, Bartholomew (son of Bartholomew O’Brien of Harbledown, Canterbury). b. 18 June 1818; ensign 2 West India regiment 15 April 1836, lieut. 1838–40; lieut. 77 foot 23 July 1841, major 20 April 1855; major 87 foot 17 Aug. 1855; lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859; lieut. col. military train 15 Nov. 1859, placed on h.p. 12 Sept. 1870; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny and in New Zealand 1863–7; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 1 Addison road, Bedford park, Chiswick, Middlesex 8 March 1885.

O’BRIEN, Cornelius (son of Henry O’Brien of Birckfield, co. Clare). b. Birckfield 1782; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; admitted attorney 1811; M.P. Clare 1832–52, and 1852–7. d. about 1857.

O’BRIEN, Dominic. b. Waterford 5 July 1798; studied theology at the Propaganda college, Rome; D.D.; ordained priest at Rome 1821; chaplain to the Ursuline convent, Waterford; president of St. John’s college, Waterford; one of the secretaries to the synod of Thurles 1850; parish priest of St. Patrick’s, Waterford; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 July 1855 to death, consecrated 30 Sept. 1855. d. at the Episcopal residence, George st. Waterford 12 June 1873. bur. in St. John’s cath. Munster Express 14 June 1873 p. 4; Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 76 (1876).

O’BRIEN, Donat Henchy (2 son of Michael O’Brien of Ennistimon, co. Clare). b. Ireland 5 Nov. 1784; entered navy 16 Dec. 1796; master’s mate of the Hussar frigate, when she was wrecked on the Saints (Ile de Sein) 8 Feb. 1804; a prisoner of war at Verdun 1804, escaped Nov. 1808; lieut. of the Warrior 29 March 1809, assisted at the reduction of Ionian Islands; lieut. of the Amphion March 1810, served in action off Lissa 13 March 1811; commanded the Slaney on the South American station 1818–21; captain 5 March 1821; R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; author of The narrative of captain O’Brien, containing an account of his shipwreck, captivity, and escape from France 1814; My adventures during the late war, comprising a narrative of shipwreck, captivity, escapes from French prisons, &c. from 1804–27, 2 vols. 1839 portrait. d. Yew house, Hoddesdon 13 May 1857, memorial window in Broxbourne church.

O’BRIEN, Fitz James (son of an attorney-at-law). b. Limerick 1828; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; went to London and spent his fortune of £8,000; edited a periodical in aid of the World’s fair 1851; went to U.S. of America about 1852, where he wrote in the Lantern, Home journal, Evening Post, New York times, American Whig review, and the Atlantic monthly; contributed more than 66 articles to Harper’s Mag. from Feb. 1853; author of The Diamond lens and other stories 1881; What was it 1889; wrote A gentleman from Ireland and other pieces for the theatres; the most able of the brilliant set of Bohemians in New York; joined the 7th regiment of New York national guard 1861. d. Cumberland, Virginia 6 April 1862, having been wounded in a skirmish 26 Feb. bur. Greenwood cemetery. The Diamond Lens (1887) memoir pp. vii–xx; Appleton’s American Biography iv 549 (1888) portrait.

O’BRIEN, James (2 son of Daniel O’Brien of Granard, co. Longford, wine merchant). b. 1805; educ. at Edgworthstown school and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829; student at Gray’s Inn 24 March 1830; acting editor of Henry Hetherington’s Poor man’s guardian, an unstamped paper 1831; wrote in Hetherington’s Poor man’s conservative, signed his articles Bronterre, and called himself subsequently James Bronterre O’Brien; started Bronterre’s National Reformer 1837, and in 1838 the Operative, which ceased July 1839; a delegate to the Chartist meeting in Palace yard, Westminster 17 Sept. 1838; contributed violent articles to the Northern Star 1839; tried at Newcastle Feb. 1840 on a charge of conspiracy, when acquitted, but sentenced at Liverpool April 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment for seditious speaking; quarrelled with Feargus O’Connor, who called him the ‘Starved Viper’; edited the British Statesman June to Dec. 1842, and The National Reformer 1845; a delegate to Chartist convention 4 April 1848, but withdrew 9 April; edited Reynold’s Newspaper for short time in 1848; lectured on his scheme of social reform at John st. institute and at the Eclectic institute, Denmark st. Soho, London; author of The life and character of Maximilian Robespierre 1837, vol. 1, no more published; Ode to lord Palmerston 1856; An ode to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1857; An elegy on the death of Robespierre 1857; A vision of hell, lord Overgrown’s dream, his lordship’s reunion with sir Robert Peel in the regions below 1859. d. Hermes st. Pentonville, London 23 Dec. 1864. R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartist movement (1854) 114 et seq.

O’BRIEN, James. b. 1810; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1843, M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1859; entered Magdalen hall, Oxf.; incorporated B.A. at Hertford coll. 1861, and M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1863; P.C. of St. Patrick, Hove, Brighton 1858, built a church at his own cost £20,000, 1868, the patronage of which he bequeathed to Hove; he figures in Cuthbert Bede’s novel Mattins and Mutton’s, or the beauty of Brighton, 2 vols. 1866, as Dr. O’Lion vol i, p. 319 et seq. d. St. Patrick’s parsonage 8 Jany. 1884.

O’BRIEN, James (3 son of James O’Brien of Limerick). b. Limerick 27 Feb. 1806; educ. at Belfast institution and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; third serjeant at law 1848–51; second serjeant at law 1851 to 25 Jany. 1858; bencher of Kings inns 1849; M.P. Limerick 1854–8; justice of court of queen’s bench 25 Jany. 1858 to death. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 29 Dec. 1881. Law mag. and law review iii 209 (1857); Law times lxxii 176 (1882).

O’BRIEN, James Thomas (son of Michael Burke O’Brien, corporation officer of New Ross, Westmeath, d. 1826). b. New Ross, Sept. 1792; educ. endowed school of New Ross; a pensioner at Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1810, scholar 1813, gold medalist 1815, fellow 1820–36, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1831; one of the six Dublin univ. preachers 1828–42; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 30 March 1833; voted freedom of borough of New Ross Sept. 1826; V. of Clondahorky, Raphoe 1836–7; V. of Arboe, Armagh 1837–41; dean of Cork 9 Nov. 1841, instituted 5 Jany. 1842; bishop of Ossory, Fearns, and Leighlin 9 March 1842 to death, consecrated in Trinity college chapel 20 March 1842; restored the use of the offertory in the cathedral; author of An attempt to explain the doctrine of justification by faith only, in ten sermons 1833, 3 ed. 1863; Sermons upon the nature and effects of faith 1833, 5 ed. 1891; Tractarianism, its present state and the only safeguard against it 1850; and 20 other books. d. 49 Thurlow sq. London 12 Dec. 1874. bur. in churchyard of St. Canice’s cathedral, Kilkenny 19 Dec. W. G. Carroll’s Memoir of J. T. O’Brien (1875) portrait.

O’BRIEN, John (brother of James O’Brien 1806–81). M.P. city of Limerick 1841–52; of Elmvale, co. Clare. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 5 Feb. 1855. Freeman’s Journal 7 Feb. 1855 p. 3.

O’BRIEN, John (son of a solicitor by a Miss Nalder). b. Nenagh, co. Tipperary 1811; educ. Trinity college, Dublin to 1834; a sporting man residing at Limmer’s hotel, London 1844, and setting up for a leader of fashion; had horses trained by Thomas Dawson of Middleham; purchased Traverser colt 1843, with whom he won many races; purchased Grimston and Jonathan Wild, won Goodwood stakes with the latter and the Goodwood cup with Grimston 1846; said to be worth £25,000 after the Goodwood of 1846; lost all his money by 1848; pawned some paintings on which the Bishop of Bond st. (Wm. Bishop d. 1871) had made advances, sent to Newgate 1862; fined £100 for an assault on Dollar Smith 1862; became a broken down swell. d. Nenagh 29 Sept. 1869. Sporting Times 22 Aug. 1885 p. 2.

O’BRIEN, Joseph. b. 1793; entered navy 25 June 1807; lieut. in the Impregnable at bombardment of Algiers 1816; commander of the Beaver sloop 1826; captain 8 Aug. 1829, when he went on h.p; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. d. Fareham 17 Nov. 1865.

O’BRIEN, Matthew (son of Matthew O’Brien, M.D.). b. Ennis 1814; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1834, junior fellow 1840–1; third wrangler 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; moderator in the mathematical tripos 1843–4; lecturer on practical astronomy at R.M.A. Woolwich 10 Jany. 1849 to death; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in King’s college, London 8 March 1844 to 17 Aug. 1854; author of Mathematical tracts, Part i on Laplace’s Coefficients 1840, no more published; An elementary treatise on the differential calculus 1842; The senate house problems for 1844, with solutions 1844; A treatise on plane co-ordinate geometry 1844, part i; On a new notation for expressing conditions and equations in geometry 1847. d. Petit Ménage, Jersey 22 Aug. 1855.

O’BRIEN, Michael William (son of William O’Brien). b. 29 Sept. 1813; educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863; barrister L.I. 5 May 1842; revising barrister 1854; serjeant at law 13 May 1862; recorder of Lincoln Jan. 1872 to death. d. 57 Brunswick road, Brighton 2 June 1873. Law times lv 209 (1873).

O’BRIEN, Sir Patrick, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir Timothy O’Brien, d. 1862). b. Dublin 1823; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1847; called to the Irish bar 1844; M.P. King’s county 1852–85; succeeded to the baronetcy 4 Dec. 1862; refused to cooperate with the Parnellite party; at one time he complained to the speaker of the insolence of a member, whom he called ‘the young sea serpent from county Clare’; a well known member of the Reform club; author of Notes of interviews with the ministers of France in reference to the policy of Louis Napoleon 1852; The French and English in Rome, with notes of interviews with the Pope and cardinal Antonelli 1853; Journal of a residence in the Danubian principalities 1854; resided 10 Bryanstown square, London. d. 20 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 25 April 1895.

O’BRIENN, Terence. Lieut. 87 foot 7 Jany. 1819, major 18 April 1845 to 31 July 1846, when placed on h.p.; assistant quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1855 to 6 Nov. 1860; commanded the troops in Ceylon 6 Nov. 1860 to death; M.G. 13 Feb. 1861; granted service reward 10 Nov. 1856. d. on board P. and O. ship Golconda at Suez 27 July 1865, aged 66.

O’BRIEN, Sir Timothy, 1 Baronet (son of Timothy O’Brien of Tinnekilly, co. Tipperary). b. co. Tipperary 1790; merchant; Spanish consul and consul for Parma and Placentia 50 Fleet st. Dublin; governor of the Hibernian bank; lord mayor of Dublin 1844 and 1849; M.P. Cashel 1846–59; created baronet 25 Aug. 1849 on occasion of the queen’s visit to Ireland. d. 14 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 4 Dec. 1862.

O’BRIEN, William Shoney. b. Abbeyleix, Ireland 1825; emigrated to New York, admitted a citizen 1845; worked in the mines in California 1849; with J. C. Flood kept the Auction lunch saloon, San Francisco 1854–66; a ship chandler; with J. C. Flood, J. S. Fair and John Mackey held the silver mine on the Comstock ledge, Nevada, called the big bonanza 1874, from which they gained immense wealth, and became known as the Bonanza Kings, he held one fifth part of the mine. d. San Rafael, California 2 May 1878, left from 15 million to 20 million dollars. Appleton’s American biography iv 551 (1888).

O’BRIEN, William Smith (2 son of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet 1773–1837). b. Dromoland, co. Clare 17 Oct. 1803; educ. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; assumed additional name of Smith on death of his maternal grandfather; M.P. Ennis 1828–31; fought a duel with Thomas Steele, O’Connell’s ‘head pacificator’; M.P. Limerick 1835–48; a motion in house of commons declaring him guilty of contempt for refusing to serve on a railway committee of which he had been appointed a member, was carried by 120 votes 28 April 1846, committed to custody of sergeant-at-arms 30 April and discharged 25 May; made his last speech in house of commons 10 April 1848; joined the Repeal Association 20 Oct. 1843 and became the second man in the movement; seceded from O’Connell’s party 27 July 1846; chief founder of the Irish Confederation, which first met 13 Jany. 1847; met Mitchel at the confederate soirée at Limerick 29 April 1848, which meeting is burlesqued by Thackeray in his The Battle of Limerick (W. M. Thackeray’s Ballads and Tales 1869, pp. 179–83); tried in court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15 May 1848, for his speech at meeting of the Irish confederation 15 March urging formation of a national guard, but the jury were discharged without returning a verdict 16 May; made an attack on the police at Boulah Common, near Ballingarry 29 July 1848, which failed, arrested at Thurles railway station 5 Aug., tried at Clonmel by a special commission 28 Sept., found guilty of high treason 7 Oct. and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered 9 Oct., this sentence was commuted to transportation for life and he was sent to Tasmania 29 July 1849, granted a pardon 26 Feb. 1854; resided at Brussels 1854–6; returned to Ireland July 1856; author of Considerations relative to the renewal of the East India company’s charter 1830; Principles of government or meditations in exile, 2 vols. 1856. d. Penrhyn arms, Bangor 18 June 1864. bur. Rathronan churchyard, co. Limerick 24 June, statue by Thomas Farrell, R.H.A. erected close to O’Connell bridge, Dublin 1870. Cusack’s The liberator: his life and times (1872) 573–5; Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883) 316–7, 331–3, 511, 561; W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i 469–533 (1850); Sullivan’s New Ireland i 163–8 (1877); Clark and Finnelly’s House of Lords cases ii 465–96 (1851); T. C. Anstey’s Case as to the legality of the arrest of W. S. O’Brien 1846; J. G. Hodge’s Report of trial of W. S. O’Brien for high treason 1849; I.L.N. iv 424 (1844) portrait, viii 300 (1846) portrait, xiii 92, 220 (1848) portrait.

O’BRYAN, William (2 son of Mr. Bryant). b. Gunwen, Luxulyan, Cornwall 6 Feb. 1778; converted 5 Nov. 1795; changed his name to O’Bryan; preached in East Cornwall and West Devon; resided for some years at Liskeard; expelled from the Wesleyan Methodist society Nov. 1810; formed a small sect constituted under name of Arminian Bible Christians, otherwise Bryanites, at Lake in Cornwall 1815; the greater part of his adherents seceded in 1829, and founded a separate society under the name of Bible Christians; emigrated to U.S. of America 1831, preached a great deal, but was not able to found a church; author of The rules of society, or a guide to conduct for those who desire to be Arminian Bible Christians, 2 ed. 1812; A collection of hymns for the use of the people called Arminian Bible Christians, Stoke Damerel 1825; Travels in the United States of America 1836. d. Brooklyn, New York 8 Jany. 1868. Thorne’s William O’Bryan (1888); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874) 406.

O’BRYEN, James Joseph (son of Terence O’Bryen of Glancolumbhill, co. Clare). b. 1823; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 22 Nov. 1843, served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and was present in battles of Mudki, Ferozeshah and Sobraon, medal and two clasps; adjutant of the 16 N.I. till his regiment was disbanded in the mutiny 1857; barrack master at Moradabad and at Almorah; second in command of the 16 or Lucknow regt.; joined the staff corps on its formation, major 22 Nov. 1863, second in command of 22 Punjab N.I. 1864, lieut. col. 22 Nov. 1869, served in Lushai expedition 1872, medal and clasp, colonel 1874, present in Jowaki campaign 1877, marched with his regt. into Afghanistan Dec. 1879. d. Safed Sang 22 Jany. 1880. S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 150–1 portrait, plate xii.

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