Chapter XLIX: Part 49

NADEN, CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL (only child of Thomas Naden,
architect). _b._ 15 Francis road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 24
Jany. 1858; lived with Mrs. Woodhill at Edgbaston till 1 June
1887, from whom she inherited a handsome fortune; a disciple of
Robert Lewins, M.D. from 1876, the doctrine he taught is called
hylo-idealism, and is monistic positivism; studied physics,
chemistry, botany, flower painting, German, French, Latin, and
Greek under private tutors, and at the Midland institute, and
at Mason’s coll. Birmingham 1879–1887; lectured at Mason’s
coll. 1889; edited the Mason college magazine; a member of the
Aristotelian society; travelled in the East 1887–8; purchased
114 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London Nov. 1888; endeavoured to
form a Spencer society 1819; wrote scientific papers with the
signatures of C. N., Constance Arden, and C. A.; author of Songs
and sonnets of spring time 1881; A modern apostle, the elixir of
life, and other poems 1887; Further reliques of C. Naden, ed.
by George M. McCrie 1891; Selections from the works of C. C. W.
Naden 1893. _d._ from an internal complaint 114 Park st. London
23 Dec. 1889. _bur._ in Old cemet. Warstone lane, Birmingham;
Dr. Lewin founded a Naden gold medal at Mason college, and gave
her bust in marble to the library 1890. _Induction and deduction
by C. C. W. Naden_ (1890) _memoir pp. vii–xvii portrait_; _W.
R. Hughes’ C. Naden_ (1890) _portrait_; _Mason coll. mag. Feb.
1890 pp._ 47–55; _Midland Institute mag. Feb. 1890 p._ 223,
_March p._ 240; _Edgbastonia Feb. 1890 pp._ 17–23 _portrait_;
_A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century_, _viii_ 571–8 (1893);
_E. C. Brewer’s Constance Naden and hydro-idealism_ (1891);
_Contemporary review April 1891 pp._ 508–22; _The Speaker No. 2
Jany. 11 1890 p._ 35, _by W. E. Gladstone, where he praises her
Pantheistic song of immortality_.

NAFTEL, MAUD (only dau. of the succeeding). _b._ 1 June 1856;
studied at Slade school of art in London, and in Paris under
Carolus Duran; exhibited 8 drawings at the Dudley gallery
1877–82, and at the Dudley Gallery art soc. 2 drawings 1883–5;
was noted for her paintings of flowers; associate of the Old
Society of painters in water-colours March 1887, where she
exhibited 16 drawings; exhibited 2 flower pieces at R.A. 1875–8;
author of Flowers and how to paint them 1886. _d._ 76 Elm park
road, Chelsea 18 Feb. 1890. _J. L. Roget’s Old water colour
society ii_ 352, 428–9 (1891).

NAFTEL, PAUL JACOB (son of Paul Naftel of Guernsey). _b._
Guernsey 10 Sept. 1817; professor of drawing at Elizabeth
college, Guernsey; associate of the Old Society of Painters in
water-colours 11 Feb. 1856, member 13 June 1859, exhibited 550
works; a landscape drawing-master in water-colours, London 1870
to death; resided at 4 St. Stephen’s sq. Westminster 1870–83,
and then at 76 Elm park road; designed the illustrations for
Ansted and Latham’s The Channel Islands 1862. _d._ 1 Walpole
gardens, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 13 Sept. 1891. _J. L.
Roget’s Old water colour society ii_ 352–4 (1891).

NOTE.--His wife exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., and 9 at Suffolk st. 1857–79.

NAGHTEN, ARTHUR ROBERT (son of Thomas Naghten of Crofton house,
Titchfield, Hants). _b._ 23 April 1829; educ. Eton and Worcester
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1853; M.P. Winchester 3 Feb. 1874 to
24 March 1880; captain Hampshire artillery 3 Aug. 1859, major
1872–5; a director of Southampton dock co. _d._ Blightmont,
Southampton 7 Aug. 1881.

NAGLE, JAMES. _b._ co. Cork; sessional crown prosecutor in
East Riding of co. Cork 1836–53; master of the crown office in
Ireland, queen’s coroner and attorney and clerk of the crown
1853 to death. _d._ 90 Pembroke road, Dublin 11 Sept. 1875.
_Irish Law Times ix_ 470, 535 (1875).

NAIRN, WILLIAM EDWARD (1 son of Wm. Nairn, major 46 foot).
_b._ Lynecombe, Somerset 1812; matric. from Queen’s coll.
Oxf. 21 Jany. 1830; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1830–4; B.A.
1833; went with sir John Franklin to Van Diemen’s Land 1837;
secretary to board of education 1839; clerk to the executive and
legislative councils 1841; assistant colonial secretary 1842;
deputy controller general of convicts 1843, controller general
1855; sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land 1855; member for Meander of
legislative council 1856–69; president of the council Sept. 1859
to Aug. 1868. _d._ Hobart Town 9 July 1869.

NAIRNE, CHARLES MURRAY. _b._ Perth 15 April 1808; graduated
at Univ. of St. Andrews 1830, and afterwards at Edinburgh;
assistant to Dr. Thomas Chalmers at Glasgow; taught at College
Hill, Poughkeepsie, New York 1847; established a private school
in New York; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and
literature in Columbia college 1857–81, emeritus professor 1881
to death; received degree of L.H.D. from the regents of New York
1865; author of Two lectures of the annual psychological course
in Columbia college, New York 1866, and of many pamphlets. _d._
Warrenton, Virginia 28 May 1882.

NAIRNE, ROBERT. Educ. Edinb. and at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B.
1832, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838; physician to
St. George’s hospital 1839, then senior physician and lecturer
on medicine; a comr. in lunacy April 1857 to July 1883, hon.
comr. 1883 to death. _d._ Mossley, Beckenham 5 Nov. 1886. _The
Lancet 13 Nov. 1886 p._ 955, _20 Nov. p._ 1005.

NAISH, JOHN (2 son of Carrol Naish of Ballycullen, co.
Limerick). _b._ 1841; ed. at Jesuit school of Clongowes Wood in
Kildare, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar in science 1861, B.A.
1863; won the studentship given by inns of court, London; called
to Irish bar 1865; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880; bencher of King’s Inns
1883; law adviser to Dublin castle 1880–3; solicitor general
for Ireland 9 Jany. 1883, attorney general 19 Dec. 1884 to 21
May 1885; contested Mallow 25 June 1883; P.C. Ireland Jany.
1885; lord chancellor of Ireland 21 May to 1 July 1885, being
the second Roman Catholic chancellor since the reformation;
lord justice of appeal Aug. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and June 1886 to
death; lord chancellor again Feb. to July 1886. _d._ Ems 17 Aug.
1890. _bur._ at Ems. _Our judges_, _By Rhadamanthus_ (1890) 45–9
_portrait_; _Irish law times xxiv_ 446–7 (1890); _Law Journal 23
Aug. 1890 p._ 514.

NAISH, WILLIAM (son of Francis Naish, silversmith). _b._ High
st. Bath 9 March 1785; haberdasher at 37 Gracechurch st. London
1823–34; published many tracts and pamphlets in favour of the
anti-slavery movement which he sold at his shop 1829–30; resided
sometime at Maidstone; author of The negroe’s remembrancer, 13
numbers; The negroe’s friend, 26 numbers; Reasons for using East
Indian sugar 1828; The negro slave, a tale 1830; Sketches from
the history of Pennsylvania 1845; The fulfilment of the prophecy
of Isaiah 1853, and of a number of 4 page Quaker tracts. _d._
Bath 4 March 1860. _bur._ Friends burial ground at Widcombe Hill
near Bath. _J. Smith’s Catalogue ii_ 210–14 (1867).

NOTE.--His son Arthur John Naish, _b._ 1816, founded with Paul Bevan the valuable Bevan-Naish library of Friend’s books, now deposited in the library, Dr. Johnson passage, Birmingham, he _d._ 1889.

NALLY, PATRICK W. _b._ co. Mayo 1857; tried Dec. 1883 and again
in 1884 at Cork, and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for
being concerned in the Crossmolins conspiracy to murder case;
detained in Mountjoy prison, Dublin from 1882–6, in Downpatrick
gaol and 1886, again at Mountjoy; preparation had been made
for a Nally testimonial on his expected release from prison
on 27 Nov. 1891. _d._ Mountjoy prison, Dublin 9 Nov. 1891.
_bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 14 Nov., when a large number of people
attended. _The Freeman’s Journal 10 Nov. 1891 p._ 5, _16 Nov.
p._ 5.

NAPIER OF MAGDALA, _Robert Cornelis Napier_, 1 Baron (son of
Charles Frederick Napier, major R.A. _d._ 1812). _b._ Colombo,
Ceylon 6 Dec. 1810; ed. at Addiscombe 1824–6; 2 lieut. Bengal
engineers 15 Dec. 1826; laid out the new settlement of Dargiling
1838–42; served at battles of Ferozeshah 21 Dec. 1845, and
Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; served in the second Sikh war 1848–9;
civil engineer to board of administration of the Punjab 1849–56
where he carried out important public works; officiating chief
engineer of Bengal 1857; military secretary and chief of the
adjutant general’s department in Oudh, and at relief of Lucknow
1857, severely wounded at second relief of Lucknow 17 Nov. 1857,
commanded a brigade of engineers at siege of Lucknow 21 March
1858; commanded the Central India force May 1858, defeated
Tantia Topee in June, commanded the Gwalior division 29 June,
captured the rebel leaders Man Singh and Tantia Topee 7 April
1859; commanded the second division in the expedition to China
Jany. 1860, took the Peiho forts 21 Aug. 1860; military member
of council of governor general of India Jany. 1861 to Jany.
1865; commander-in-chief of the Bombay army Jany 1865; commanded
the expedition to Abyssinia which landed at Zoulah 2 Jany.
1868, defeated the troops of King Theodore 10 April and stormed
Magdala 13 April; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 27 July 1858,
G.C.B. 27 April 1868; G.C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; created baron
Napier of Magdala in Abyssinia and of Caryngton in the county
palatine of Cheshire 14 July 1868; received freedom of cities
of London 21 July 1868 and of Edinburgh 15 Sept. 1868; hon.
colonel of 3rd London rifle corps 22 July 1868 to death; F.R.S.
16 Dec. 1869; commander-in-chief in India Jany. 1870 to 10 April
1876; col. commandant of the R.E. 1 April 1874 to death; general
1 April 1874; governor of Gibraltar 30 June 1876 to 1 Jany.
1883; field marshal 1 Jany. 1883; constable of Tower of London
6 Jany. 1887 to death. _d._ 63 Eaton sq. London 14 Jany. 1890.
_bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral 21 Jany. equestrian statue by Boehm
erected in Calcutta 1876, a replica of which was unveiled in
Waterloo place, London 8 July 1891. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the
Victorian age_ (1870) 308–71; _T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the
empire_ (1879) 228–35; _C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian
expedition_ (1869) 140 _et seq._; _E. H. Nolan’s Indian mutiny
iii_ 71 _portrait_; _I.L.N. li_ 349, 350 (1867) _portrait_, _18
July 1891 p._ 67 _view of statue_; _Graphic xvii_ 293 (1878)
_portrait_.

NOTE.--He is depicted under the name of general Sutton in the novel called Chronicles of Dustypore, a tale of modern Anglo-Indian society. By the author of Wheat and Tares (H. S. Cunningham). 2 vols. 1875.

NAPIER, ALEXANDER (6 son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor
of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). _b._ Edinburgh 1814; ed. at
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1847; V. of Holkham, Norfolk
1847 to death; chaplain and librarian to earl of Leicester; R.
of Egmere with Waterden 1847 to death; edited Isaac Barrow’s
Theological Works, 9 vols. Camb. 1859; Life of Samuel Johnson,
by J. Boswell, 5 vols. 1884, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1884; translated
and edited J. A. W. Neander’s The epistle to the Philippians
and the general epistle of James 1851; Karl Elze’s Lord Byron
1872; Julius Payer’s New lands within the Arctic circle, 2 vols.
1876; A. T. F. Michaelis’ The Holkham bust of Thucydides 1878;
his wife Robina Napier translated Memoirs of prince Metternich
1773–1815, edited by prince Richard Metternich, 5 vols. 1880–4;
he _d._ Holkham vicarage 24 Aug. 1887. _Quarterly Review Oct.
1869 pp._ 353–81.

NAPIER, Sir Charles (eld. son of Charles Napier of Merchiston
hall, Stirlingshire, captain in the navy 1731–1807). _b._
Merchiston hall 6 March 1786; entered navy 1 Nov. 1799, captain
22 May 1809; lost his fortune in an attempt to promote iron
steamers on the Seine 1819–27; vice-admiral, major general of
the Portuguese navy and commander-in-chief of the fleet in the
cause of Donna Maria and Dom Pedro 8 June to 15 Oct. 1833;
defeated the squadron of Dom Miguel off Cape St. Vincent 3 July
1833; promoted to rank of admiral and created viscount Cape St.
Vincent in peerage of Portugal July 1833; granted grand cross of
order of the Tower and Sword and created count Cape St. Vincent
by Dom Pedro; captain H.M.S. Powerful, 84 guns, 1 Jany. 1839;
commanded a squadron off Syria June 1840, took Beyrout from
the Egyptians 10 Oct. 1840, and Acre 3 Nov.; C.B. 4 June 1815,
K.C.B. 2 Dec. 1840, received orders of Maria Theresa of Austria,
of St. George of Russia, of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and the
first class of the Medjidie; presented with freedom of city of
London 23 Sept. 1841; captain on h.p. 1841; naval A.D.C. to the
queen 30 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded
the channel fleet May 1847 to April 1849; V.A. 28 May 1853;
commanded the fleet in the Baltic sea 25 Feb. 1854 to 19 Feb.
1855, where he blockaded all the Russian ports; admiral 6 March
1858; contested Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1832 and Greenwich 1837; M.P.
Marylebone 1841–7; M.P. Southwark 1855–60; author of An account
of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel, 2 vols.
1836; The life of sir C. Napier, chiefly by himself, 3 ed. 1841
portrait; The war in Syria, 2 vols, 1842; The history of the
Baltic campaign 1857. _d._ Merchiston hall, Horndean, Hants.
6 Nov. 1860. _bur._ at Catherington; portrait by T. M. Joy in
painted hall at Greenwich, and another portrait by John Simpson
in National portrait gallery, Edinburgh. _E. D. H. E. Napier’s
Life of sir C. Napier_, 2 _vols._ (1862) _portrait_; _Men of
the time_ (1857) 558–64; _G.M. x_ 209–16 (1861); _E. H. Nolan’s
Russian war i_ 310 (1855) _portrait_; _Sporting Review xxxii_
205–7 (1854) _portrait_; _Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 93–101,
121 _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 175 (1843) _portrait_, _xxiv_ 207,
208 (1854) _portrait_.

NAPIER, SIR CHARLES JAMES (eld. son of colonel the hon. George
Napier 1751–1804). _b._ Whitehall, London 10 Aug. 1782; ensign
33 foot 31 Jany. 1794; lieut. 89 foot 8 May 1794; captain in
the staff corps 22 Dec. 1803; major 50 foot 6 Nov. 1806 to 27
June 1811; served in Spain, was wounded five times at battle
of Corunna 16 Jany. 1809, a prisoner at Corunna Jany. 1809 to
Jany. 1810; lieut. col. 102 foot 27 June 1811 to 2 Sept. 1813;
commanded a brigade against U.S. of America May 1813 for some
months; lieut. col. 50 foot 2 Sept. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec.
1814; served as a volunteer against Napoleon 1815; inspecting
field officer in the Ionian Islands 30 July 1818, placed on
h.p. 1 March 1832; resident of Cephalonia March 1822 to 1830;
commanded troops in northern district, India April 1839, and
at Poona 12 Dec. 1841; commanded the Sinde and Beloochistan
division 24 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1846; won the battle of Meanee
with 2,700 men against more than 20,000 men 17 Feb. 1843;
defeated Shir Muhammad, the Lion of Mirpur, at Haidarabad 24
March 1843; Sinde finally annexed 24 May 1844; col. of 22 foot
21 Nov. 1843 to death; captured Bega Khan Dumki, the leading
hill chief 9 March 1845; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-in-chief
in India 7 March 1849 to 6 Dec. 1850; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B.
19 July 1838, G.C.B. 4 July 1843; author of Memoir on the roads
of Cephalonia 1825; The colonies, treating of their value
generally, of the Ionian islands in particular 1833; Remarks
on military law and flogging 1837; A letter on the baggage of
the Indian army 1849; A letter on the defence of England by
volunteers and militia 1852. _d._ Oaklands, near Portsmouth
29 Aug. 1853. _bur._ in ground attached to garrison chapel at
Landport; bronze statue by G. G. Adams in Trafalgar sq. London,
unveiled 26 Nov. 1856. _W. F. P. Napier’s Life of sir C. J.
Napier_, 4 _vols._ (1857) 4 _portraits_; _W. N. Bruce’s Life of
general sir C. Napier_ (1885) _portrait_; _J. J. Higginbotham’s
Men whom India has known_ (1874) 316–21; _E. H. Nolan’s Illust.
history of British empire in India ii_ 669 (1860) _portrait_;
_G.M. xl_ 410–6 (1853); _Men of the time_ (1853) 330–3; _I.L.N.
ii_ 255 (1843) _portrait_, _xiv_ 145, 146 (1849) 2 _portraits_,
_xxiii_ 191, 192, 229, 230, 431 (1853) _portrait_.

NOTE.--He was the first general who recorded in his despatches the names of private soldiers who had distinguished themselves side by side with officers. A portrait of him photographed by W. E. Kilburn on 24 March 1849, has been engraved in line by Joseph Skelton. He was called in the army “Old Fagin” from his strong likeness to the Jew in Oliver Twist.

NAPIER, DAVID. _b._ 1790; founded with his cousin Robert Napier,
the firm of Napier and Sons, shipbuilders and marine engineers,
Govan, Glasgow; introduced coasting steamers for the post office
service 1818; established regular steam communication between
Greenock and Belfast, and in 1822 between Liverpool, Greenock,
and Glasgow; constructed machinery for the United Kingdom
1826, the largest vessel then designed; invented the steeple
engine; tried the application of the surface condenser in marine
engines; proposed a plan for removal of the Glasgow sewage by
means of barges. _d._ 8 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington,
London 23 Nov. 1869. _Glasgow daily herald 27 Nov. 1869 pp._ 4,
5; _Engineering 3 Dec. 1869 p._ 365.

NAPIER, EDWARD DELAVAL HUNGERFORD ELERS (elder son of Edward
Elers, lieutenant R.N., _d._ 1814). _b._ 1808; took additional
name of Napier from his mother’s second husband, admiral sir
Charles Napier; ensign 46 foot 11 Aug. 1825, major 11 Oct.
1839, retired on h.p. 14 Oct. 1842; served in India 1830–3;
obtained release of Syrian troops detained by Mahomet Ali, and
conducted them to Beyrout, May to Sept. 1841; commanded bodies
of irregulars during the Kaffir war 1846–7; colonel of 61 foot
3 Oct. 1864, and of 46 foot 22 Feb. 1870 to death; L.G. 3 Oct.
1864; author of Scenes and sports in foreign lands, 2 vols.
1840; Excursions along the shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols.
1842; Reminiscenses of Syria, 2 vols. 1843; Wild sports in
Europe, Asia, and Africa, 2 vols. 1844; Excursions in Southern
Africa, 2 vols. 1849; The life of admiral sir Charles Napier, 2
vols. 1862. _d._ Westhill, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 19 June 1870.
_Colburn’s United service mag. Aug. 1870 pp._ 484–92.

NAPIER, GEORGE (son of George Napier, solicitor). _b._ 1802; ed.
at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1823; advocate depute
1830–4 and 1835–40; sheriff of Peebleshire 1840 to death. _d._
Coates hall, Haymarket terrace, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1883.

NAPIER, SIR GEORGE THOMAS (brother of sir Charles James Napier
1782–1853). _b._ Whitehall, London 30 June 1784; cornet 24 light
dragoons 25 Jany. 1800; lieut. 52 foot 25 Dec. 1802, major 27
June 1811; served in Sicily, Sweden, and Portugal, and in the
Peninsular campaigns 1809–11; lost his right arm at assault on
Ciudad Rodrigo 19 Jany. 1812; deputy adjutant general of the
York district 1812; lieut. col. 71 foot 24 March 1814; captain
3 foot guards 25 July 1814; lieut. col. 44 foot 22 Feb. 1821,
placed on h.p. 19 April 1821; governor and commander-in-chief at
Cape of Good Hope 4 Oct. 1837 to 12 Dec. 1843, where he enforced
the abolition of slavery, and abolished inland taxation;
declined command of Sardinian army 1849; col. of 1 West India
regiment 29 Feb. 1844 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4
June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; author of Passages in the early
military life of general sir G. T. Napier, edited by W. C. E.
Napier 1884, 2 ed. 1886. _d._ Geneva 8 Sept. 1855, his body
was brought to England July 1881 and _bur._ in family vault at
Cosham near Portsmouth. _Passages in the early military life of
Sir G. T. Napier_ (1886) _portrait_.

NAPIER, GEORGE THOMAS CONOLLY (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
1815; ensign 52 foot 7 Sept. 1832; lieut. Cape mounted riflemen
23 Feb. 1839, lieut. col. 17 May 1850 to 28 Jany. 1853, when
placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the queen 20 June 1854 to Dec. 1861;
deputy quartermaster general North America 1 July 1859 to 6
Dec. 1861; M.G. on the staff in Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 1 Jany.
1867; col. 96 foot 14 June 1869 to 10 May 1872; col. 22 foot 10
May 1872 to death; L.G. 30 April 1871; C.B. 31 May 1853. _d._
Morpeth terrace, Victoria st. Westminster 5 May 1873.

NAPIER, HENRY ALFRED (youngest son of 8 baron Napier 1758–1823).
_b._ 20 June 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822;
R. of Swyncombe, near Henley 13 Oct. 1826 to death; author of
Historical notices of the parishes of Swyncombe and Ewelme,
Oxfordshire 1858, 4to. 63/-, published by himself at Oxford.
_d._ Swyncombe rectory 20 Nov. 1871. _I.L.N. lix_ 531 (1871).

NAPIER, HENRY EDWARD (brother of sir George Thomas Napier
1784–1855). _b._ 5 March 1789; entered navy 20 Sept. 1806;
served in the East Indies 1808–11; lieutenant 4 May 1810;
commanded the Goree, 18 guns, 7 June 1814, and afterwards the
Rifleman, 18 guns, in the Bay of Fundy; placed on h.p. Aug.
1815, captain on h.p. 31 Dec. 1830; F.R.S. 18 May 1820; author
of Florentine history, from the earliest authentic records to
the accession of Ferdinand the third, 6 vols. 1846–7. _d._ 62
Cadogan place, London 13 Oct. 1853.

NAPIER, JAMES. _b._ Partick, Glasgow June 1810; apprenticed to
a dyer; studied at Glasgow univ.; lived in London and Swansea
several years; returned to Glasgow about 1849–50, where he
became closely associated with Anderson’s college and the
technical school founded by James Young; author of A manual of
electro-metallurgy 1851, 5 ed. 1876; A manual of the art of
dyeing, Glasgow 1853; A manual of dyeing receipts 1855, 3 ed.
1875; The ancient workers in metal, from references in the Old
Testament 1856; Stonehaven and its historical associations, 2
ed. 1870; Notes relating to Partick 1873; Manufacturing arts
in ancient times 1874; Folk lore or superstitious beliefs
in the West of Scotland 1879; illustrated J. Mac Arthur’s
The antiquities of Arran 1861, 2 ed. 1873. _d._ Bothwell,
Lanarkshire 1 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, JAMES ROBERT (son of Robert Napier of Shandon
1791–1876). _b._ Camlachie 12 Sept. 1821; educ. Glasgow high
sch. and univ.; managed his father’s ship building at Govan
1841; invented plan of working outside plating of ships in
alternate in and out strakes; a partner in firm of R. Napier
and sons 1853–7; a shipbuilder on his own account a few years;
engaged in West Scotland fishery co.; invented the graphic
method of correcting deviations of a ship’s compass known as
Napier’s Diagram 1851; invented Napier’s Glass coffee apparatus;
took out many patents; a founder of Institution of engineers
in Scotland, president 1863; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; M.I.N.A.;
wrote 17 scientific papers; contributed to Macquorn Rankine’s
Shipbuilding, theoretical and practical 1866; edited Francis
Napier’s Australian notes. _d._ 22 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 13
Dec. 1879. _Maclehose’s Glasgow Men_ (1886) 115, 118, 237–40,
243, 270 _portrait_; _Nature xxi_ 206.

NAPIER, SIR JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Wm. Napier of
Belfast, merchant, _d._ 1830). _b._ Belfast 26 Dec. 1804; ed. at
Belfast academical institution; entered Trin. coll. Dublin Nov.
1820; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, LL.B. and LL.D. 1851; D.C.L. Oxford
1853; revived the Old College historical society, president
1854 to death; student at Gray’s Inn 1828; called to Irish
bar 1831; the only lawyer in Dublin who had pupils; delivered
lectures on the common law, and established a law institute in
Dublin; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844; much employed in appeals before the
house of lords; contested univ. of Dublin 9 Aug. 1847; M.P.
univ. of Dublin 1848–58; introduced and carried through the
house of commons the ecclesiastical code, afterwards known as
Napier’s ecclesiastical code; bencher of King’s Inns 1852;
attorney general of Ireland March to Dec. 1852; P.C. Ireland
1852; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854;
lord chancellor of Ireland 10 March 1858 to June 1859; created
baronet 26 March 1867; the special champion of the Irish church;
vice-chancellor of Dublin univ. 1867 to Dec. 1879; one of the 26
members of the ritual commission June 1867; P.C. 11 Nov. 1868;
member of judicial committee of privy council 11 Nov. 1868 to
Jany. 1881; chief comr. of the great seal Ireland 11 March 1874
to 1 January 1875; edited with John C. Alcock Reports of cases
argued in the courts of King’s Bench and exchequer chamber in
Ireland 1831–3, Dublin 1834; author of A manual of precedents
of forms and declarations on bills of exchange and promissory
notes 1831; Digest of the civil bill and manor courts statutes,
Dublin 1836, 2 ed. 1843; Essay on the communion service of the
church of England or Rome, which shall govern Ireland 1851, 2
ed. 1851; and many Addresses and Speeches 1854–73. _d._ St.
Leonard’s-on-Sea 9 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery,
Dublin, memorial tablets in mortuary chapel of the cemetery and
in St. Patrick’s cathedral. _A. C. Ewald’s Life of Sir Joseph
Napier_ (1887) _portrait_; _O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors
of Ireland_ (1879) 293–307; _Sir Joseph Napier’s Lectures,
essays, and letters_ (1888) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xiv_ 405 (1849)
_portrait_, _xxxiii_ 394 (1858) _portrait_; _Graphic xxvii_ 60
(1883) _portrait_.

NAPIER, MACVEY (son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the
Edinburgh Review 1829–47). _b._ 1807 or 1808; edited Selections
from the correspondence of the late Macvey Napier 1879. _d._ 7
Pembroke villas, Richmond, Surrey 8 July 1893.

NAPIER, MARK (only son of Francis Napier of Edinburgh, writer
to the signet). _b._ 24 July 1798; ed. at high school and univ.
of Edinb.; advocate at Scottish bar 1820; sheriff depute of
Dumfriesshire 4 Nov. 1844 to death, and of Galloway to death;
author of Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston 1834; History of
the partition of the Lennox 1835; Montrose and the covenanters,
2 vols. 1838; Commentaries on the law of prescription in
Scotland 1839, 2 ed. 1854; Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose,
2 vols. 1856. _d._ 6 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1879.
_Journal of jurisprudence xxiii_ 652 (1880).

NAPIER, PETER. _b._ Dumbarton 1793; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A.,
D.D. 1847; assistant presbyterian minister at Port Glasgow 1815;
minister of St. George’s in the Fields, Glasgow 1824; minister
of Blackfriars ch. Glasgow 1845 to death; author of A course of
lectures on infidelity 1842; Grace exhibited, grace communicated
1845. _d._ Glasgow 12 March 1865. _H. Scott’s Fasti ii, part_ 1
_p._ 35 (1868); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 315–22.

NAPIER, ROBERT (son of James Napier, blacksmith and millwright).
_b._ Dumbarton 18 June 1791; apprenticed to his father 1807–12;
blacksmith in Greyfriars’ Wynd, Glasgow 1815; ironfounder and
engineer at the Camlachie works in Gallowgate 1821, constructed
his first marine engine 1823 for the Leven; took extensive
works, the Vulcan foundry in Washington st. 1828, and the
Lancefield foundry on Anderston quay 1835, the works were sold
14 March 1877; engined all the paddle-wheel ships of the Cunard
company 1840–55; took his sons into partnership 1853; opened
a shipbuilding yard at Govan 1841, built his first ship the
Vanguard 1843; began constructing iron ships 1850; built the
Persia of 3,300 tons for the Cunard co. 1854; a juror at Paris
exhibition 1855, received gold medal and legion of honour; built
more than 300 vessels for the government and great companies
1856 to death; built men-of-war for the French, Turkish, Danish,
and Dutch governments; M.I.C.E. 31 March 1840; M.I.M.E. 1856,
president 1863–5. _d._ West Shandons, Glasgow 23 June 1876.
_Maclehose’s Glasgow Men_ (1886) 241–4 _portrait_; _Engineering_
(1867) 594–7 _portrait_, (1876) 554–5; _Min. of proc. of Instit.
of C.E. xlv_ 246–51 (1876) _with list of all the vessels engined
or built by him_; _Practical Mag. iii_ 1 (1874) _portrait_;
_Graphic xiv_ 44 (1876) _portrait_.

NAPIER, ROBERT D. (son of David Napier 1790–1869). _b._ Glasgow
1821; engineer with his father and his brother, Frank Napier, at
Glasgow to 1837, then with them as engineers Millwall, London
from 1837, where they built numerous steamships; went to New
South Wales; dredged Sydney harbour; invented the self-holding
brake; returned to Glasgow 1870, partner with his brother John
D. Napier as Napier Brothers; manufactured self-holding brakes
for ships’ windlasses, etc.; contributed to The Engineer and to
Trans. of Institution of Engineers, Glasgow; author of On the
velocity of steam and other gases 1866. _d._ Glasgow 8 May 1885.
_The Engineer 15 May 1885 p._ 387.

NAPIER, SIR ROBERT JOHN MILLIKEN, 9 Baronet (eld. son of sir
William John Milliken Napier, 8 baronet 1788–1852). _b._
Milliken house, near Johnstone, Renfrewshire 7 Nov. 1818;
ensign 79 foot 7 Aug. 1835, captain 12 April 1844, sold out 9
June 1846; succeeded his father 4 Feb. 1852; deputy lieut. of
Renfrewshire 1845, and convener 1859–65; lieut. col. commandant
of Renfrewshire militia 31 March 1854, hon. col. 19 Jany. 1878
to death. _d._ 32 Moray place, Edinb. 4 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE (brother of sir Charles Napier
1786–1860). _b._ 10 May 1790; ensign 52 foot 3 July 1805;
captain in the Chasseurs Britanniques 27 Oct. 1809, placed on
h.p. 1814, when the corps was disbanded; served in Sicily and
Spain 1812–3; A.D.C. to sir John Hope in the Peninsula 1813,
lost his left arm at battle of the Nive 11 Dec. 1813; assistant
adjutant general in Ireland to 1843, deputy adjutant general
1843–6; governor of Edinburgh castle and commander of the troops
in Scotland May 1852 to 20 June 1854; colonel of 16 foot 28 Jany
1854 and of 71 foot 16 May 1857 to death; general 20 Sept. 1861;
C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; granted distinguished
service reward 1 June 1849. _d._ Polton house, Lasswade, near
Edinburgh 5 July 1863.

NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick (brother of sir George
Thomas Napier 1784–1855). _b._ Celbridge, co. Kildare 17 Dec.
1785; ensign royal Irish artillery 14 June 1800; ensign 62 foot
1800, lieut. 1801, placed on h.p. 1802; captain 43 foot 11 Aug.
1804, major 14 May 1812, placed on h.p. 17 June 1819; served
at siege of Copenhagen 1807, in Spain 1808–9, and in Portugal
1809–13; granted £150 per annum for his distinguished services
29 May 1841; lieutenant-governor of Guernsey Feb. 1842 to Dec.
1847; colonel of 27 foot 5 Feb. 1848, and of 22 foot 19 Sept.
1853 to death; general 17 Oct. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 27
April 1848; author of History of the war in the Peninsula and
in the south of France, from the year 1807 to the year 1814, 6
vols. 1828–40, 5 ed. 6 vols. 1851, upwards of 15 works appeared
in reference to these volumes; The conquest of Scinde, 2 vols.
1845; The life and opinions of general sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols.
1857, 2 ed. 1857. _d._ Scinde house, King’s road, Clapham park,
London 10 Feb. 1860. _bur._ Norwood; statue by G. G. Adams in
north transept of St. Paul’s cathedral. _H. A. Bruce’s Life
of sir W. F. P. Napier_, 2 _vols._ (1864) 2 _portraits_; _H.
Martineau’s Biog. Sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 199–212; _I.L.N.
xxxvi_ 172, 186 (1860) _portrait_.

NAPLETON, JOHN CHARLES (9 son of rev. Timothy Napleton, R.
of Powderham, Devon, _d._ 1816). _b._ 1811; ed. Worcester
coll. Oxf., Bible clerk 1830–2; B.A. 1833; P.C. of Hatfield,
Herefordshire 1844–58, and P.C. of Grendon Bishop 1849–58; P.C.
of All Saints’, Lambeth 1858 to death; author of Daily services
in the cottage 1848, new ed. 1877; The present condition of the
working classes 1855; A letter to C. H. Spurgeon, touching his
sermon on baptismal regeneration 1864. _d._ Bayswater, London 13
April 1867.

NAPOLEON III, CHARLES LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Emperor of the
French (3 son of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1778–1847, king of
Holland). _b._ Rue Cérutti, now Rue Lafitte, Paris 20 April
1808; became heir to the French empire 22 July 1832; arrived
in London from America 10 July 1837; went to Arenenberg to
attend his mother’s death bed 5 Oct. 1837; resided in London
at Fenton’s hotel, 63 St. James’s st. from 24 Oct. 1838, at
Waterloo place, at Carlton ter. to Dec. 1839, and at Carlton
gardens to Aug. 1840; one of the ten knight visitors at the
Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839, tilted on foot with Charles
Lamb in the ball room on 29 Aug.; attended on Wimbledon common
3 March 1840 to fight a duel with count Leon, a reputed son of
Napoleon I, the police interfered and carried the parties to
Bow st. where they were bound over to keep the peace; went from
Margate to Boulogne and attempted to seize the government of
France 6 Aug. 1840, condemned to perpetual imprisonment 6 Oct.
1840, sent to Ham, North France 10 Oct., escaped to England 25
May 1846; living at the Brunswick hotel, 52 Jermyn st. 27 May
1846; resided in Bath 1846; leased 3a King st. St. James, now 10
King st., from 1 Feb. 1847 at £300 a year, his furniture, etc.
sold by auction 22 May 1849; charged Charles Pollard of Essex
st. London with stealing two bills of exchange of £1,000 each,
prisoner acquitted on technical grounds 3 July 1847; a special
constable in London on day of Chartists’ procession 10 April
1848; author of Des Idées Napoleoniennes, London 1839, and of
Canal of Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific,
London 1846; president of the French republic 20 Dec. 1848;
emperor of the French 2 Dec. 1852; _m._ 29 Jany. 1853 Eugénie
Marie de Guzman, countess of Téba, _b._ 5 May 1826; with the
empress visited the queen at Windsor and Buckingham palace
16–21 April 1855; K.G. 18 April 1855; entertained by city of
London 19 April 1855; with the empress visited the queen at
Osborne 6–9 Aug. 1857; hon. M.I.C.E. 23 May 1869; declared war
against Prussia 15 July 1870, taken prisoner at Sedan 2 Sept.,
deposed at Paris 4 Sept., confined at Wilhelmshöhe near Cassel
5 Sept., released and landed at Dover 20 March 1871, resided at
Camden place, Chislehurst, Kent to his death 9 Jany 1873. _bur._
St. Mary’s ch. Chislehurst 15 Jany., the remains removed to a
mausoleum built by the empress at Farnborough, Surrey 9 Jany.
1888. _Blanchard Jerrold’s Life of Napoleon III_, 4 _vols._
(1874–82) _seven portraits_; _Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit_
(1852); _Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 94 _portrait_: _Passing
Events 18 Jany. 1873 portrait and other plates_; _I.L.N. 6 June
1846 pp._ 364–5 _portrait_, _23 Dec. 1848 p._ 385 _portrait_,
_21 April to 5 May 1855 pp._ 371 _et seq._ _portraits_, _15 Aug.
1857 p._ 154, _25 March 1871 p._ 283, _18 and 25 Jany. 1873 p._
65 _et seq._ _portraits_; _J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament_
(1843) _plates xviii, xx, and xxi_; _P. Larousse’s Grand
Dictionnaire xi_ 819–33 (1874).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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