Chapter L: Part 50

NEALE, JOHN MASON (only son of rev. Cornelius Neale, fellow
of St. John’s coll. Camb., _d._ 1823). _b._ 40 Lamb’s Conduit
st. Holborn, London 24 Jany. 1818; ed. Blackheath sch. and at
Sherborne; won a scholarship at Trin. coll. Camb. 12 April
1839; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1845; D.D. Trin. coll. Hartford, U.S. of
America 1861; Seatonian prizeman 1845 and 9 times afterwards; a
founder of the Cambridge Camden society 1839; fellow and tutor
of Downing coll. 1840; declined the provostship of St. Ninians,
Perth 1850; warden of Sackville college, East Grinstead 1846 to
death; rebuilt Sackville college chapel 1850, adding ornaments
which were denounced by Dr. Gilbert, bishop of Chichester,
who inhibited him from officiating in his diocese, a suit was
instituted and Neale was defeated, the inhibition was removed
Nov. 1863; founded St. Margaret’s sisterhood at Rotherfield
1854, transferred to East Grinstead 1856; was unequalled
as a translator of ancient Latin and Greek hymns, knew 20
languages; wrote one-eighth of the hymns in Hymns ancient
and modern, including Jerusalem the golden; leader writer on
Morning Chronicle 1851–3; edited and translated The rhythm of
Bernard de Morlaix on the celestial country 1859, 3 ed. 1866; A
commentary on the psalms 1860, 3 ed. 1874; The history of pews
1841, 3 ed. 1843; Agnes de Tracy, a tale 1843; English history
for children 1845, 3 ed. 1849; Herbert Tresham, a tale 1843, 2
ed. 1870; A history of the holy eastern church, 5 vols. 1850–73;
Handbook for travellers in Portugal 1855, 4 ed. 1887; Hymns
of the eastern church 1862, 5 ed. 1888; Selections from the
writings of J. M. N. 1864, 2 ed. 1887; Hymns chiefly mediæval
1865, 2 ed. 1867; Sermons preached in Sackville college, 4 vols.
1871–82; and upwards of 100 other works 1841–66; composer of An
Eastern carol 1849. _d._ Sackville college, East Grinstead 6
Aug. 1866. _bur._ East Grinstead 10 Aug. _St. Margaret’s Mag.
20 July 1887 pp._ 12–20, _21 Jany. 1888 pp._ 54–69, _20 July
pp._ 123–51; _Huntington’s Random recollections_ (1893) 198–223;
_Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 785–90; _G.M. ii_
407–10 (1866); _Notes and Queries_, _6th series ii_ 102–4, 193
(1880).

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

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

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

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

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

NEAVE, SIR RICHARD DIGBY, 3 Baronet (eld. son of sir Thomas
Neave, 2 Bart. 1761–1848). _b._ 9 Dec. 1793; ed. at St. Mary’s
Hall, Oxf., B.A. 1815; _m._ 7 Aug. 1828 Mary Arundell, youngest
dau. of James Everard, 9th lord Arundell of Wardour, she _d._
30 Aug. 1849; succeeded 11 April 1848; F.R.G.S.; author of Four
days in Connemara 1852. _d._ 10 Eccleston sq. London 10 March
1868. _Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria_ (1845) 51–54.
_portrait of Lady Neave_.

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

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

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

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

NEEDHAM, EDWARD MOORE. _b._ Birmingham 1819; a booking clerk to
the Midland railway co. 1840; superintendent Midland railway co.
1860 to death. _d._ Duffield, near Derby 23 Jany. 1890.

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

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

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

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

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

NEILL, JAMES GEORGE SMITH (eld. son of colonel Wm. Smith Neill
of Burnweill, Ayrshire 1784–1850). _b._ near Ayr 27 May 1810;
ed. at Ayr and Glasgow univ.; ensign 1 Madras European regiment
5 Dec. 1826, adjutant 7 March 1834, major 25 March 1850; deputy
assistant A.G. in the Ceded districts 23 March 1841–50; deputy
assistant to Madras troops in the Burmese war 1852–3; second in
command of Anglo-Turkish contingent in the Russian war 1855–6,
went to Constantinople April 1855; commanded his regiment
28 April 1857 to death; brigadier general in command of the
Haidarabad contingent June 1857 to death; was gazetted A.D.C.
to the queen, with rank of colonel in the army 16 Oct. 1857;
commanded at Cawnpore July 1857; commanded the right wing in the
advance to Lucknow 19 Sept. _shot dead_ outside Lucknow 25 Sept.
1857. _bur._ Lucknow 26 Sept., colossal statue by Noble erected
in Wellington sq. Ayr. _J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has
known_ (1874) 321–8; _J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers
ii_ 353–416 (1867); _E. H. Nolan’s British empire in India ii_
724 (1860) _portrait_; _R. M. Martin’s Indian empire ii_ 292
_et seq._ (1860) _view of his death_; _W. Forbes-Mitchell’s
Reminiscenses of the great mutiny_ (1893) _appendix A_; _I.L.N.
xxxi_ 577, 578 (1858) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

NEILSON, JAMES BEAUMONT (younger son of Walter Neilson,
engine-wright at the Govan coal works, near Glasgow). _b._
Shettleston, near Glasgow 22 June 1792; engine-wright of a
colliery at Irvine 1814–7; foreman of the Glasgow gas works
1817, manager and engineer of the works 1822–47; invented the
swallow-tail burner, which came into general use; invented
the hot blast in the manufacture of iron, which is now in
general use; patented the invention with his partners, Charles
Macintosh and John Wilson 1 Oct. 1828; established the validity
of the patent after a ten days’ trial 1843; this invention made
available the black band ironstone, formerly useless; M.I.C.E.
1832; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1846. _d._ Queenshill, near Kirkcudbright
18 Jany. 1865. _Maclehose’s Glasgow Men ii_ 245–8 (1886)
_portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 451–3 (1870);
_S. Smiles’s Industrial biography_ (1879) 149–61; _Chambers’s
Biog. Dict. of eminent Scotsmen iii_ 215–6 (1870); _Report
of the case Neilson_ v. _Harford in the court of exchequer_,
_Edinb._ (1841); _Report of case of Neilson_ v. _Baird_ (1843).

NEILSON, JOHN FINLAY. Parliamentary reporter for The Times
nearly 40 years. _d._ 61 Bessborough st. London 27 July 1881
aged 72.

NEILSON, LILIAN ADELAIDE, stage name of Elizabeth Ann Brown
(dau. of Ann Brown, an actress, who became Mrs. Bland). _b._ 35
St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 3 March 1848; lived at Skipton 1848–50;
worked as a mill hand at Guiseley; a nurse girl in the family
of Mr. John Padgett at Hawkhill house, Guiseley 1859–61; a
barmaid, under name of Lizzie Ann Bland, at a public house near
the Haymarket, London; a ballet girl; befriended by admiral
Henry Carr Glyn; first appeared on the stage at Margate 1865
as Juliet, under name of Lilian Adelaide Lizon, which she
afterwards changed to Neilson; pupil of John Ryder the actor;
first appeared in London at Royalty theatre 17 July 1865 as
Juliet; the original Gabrielle de Savigny in Watts Phillip’s
Huguenot Captain at Princess’s 2 July 1866; played Victorine in
the drama Victorine at Adelphi 14 Nov. 1866, the original Nellie
Armroyd in W. Phillips’s Lost in London at Adelphi 16 March
1867; played Rosalind at T.R. Edinburgh 25 Sept. 1868; played at
Prince of Wales’s theatre, Birmingham in Millicent, an adaption
of Miss Braddon’s Captain of the Vulture 2 Nov. 1868; the
original Lilian in W. Marston’s Life for life at Lyceum 6 March
1869, Madame Vidal in Oxenford and Wigan’s A life chase 11 Oct.
1869, Mary Belton in Uncle Dick’s Darling 13 Dec. 1869, both at
Gaiety; began a series of dramatic readings at St. James’s hall
26 May 1870; appeared as Amy Robsart in A. Halliday’s Kenilworth
at Drury Lane 24 Sept. 1870, and as Rebecca in his Ivanhoe 23
Sept. 1871; played Juliet and Pauline at Queen’s Sept. 1872; at
Booth’s theatre, New York acted Juliet 18 Nov. 1872, reappeared
in America 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, and 1880; the first
Anne Boleyn in Tom Taylor’s Anne Boleyn at Haymarket 5 Feb.
1876, played there again in 1878; acted Isabel of Bavaria in
The crimson cross at Adelphi 27 Feb. 1879; arrived in Paris
from London, on her way to Trouville 11 Aug. 1880. _d._ at the
Nouveau chalet du rond royal, Bois de Boulogne, Paris 15 Aug.
1880, body removed to the Morgue same day. _bur._ West Brompton
cemetery, London 20 Aug. _L. C. Holloway’s Adelaide Neilson_,
_New York_ (1885) 8 _portraits and view of tomb_; _M. A. de
Leine’s L. A. Neilson, a memorial sketch_ (1881) _portrait_;
_W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1890) 94–8, 2 _portraits_; _C. E.
Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 271–5; _W. Marston’s Our recent
actors ii_ 219–50 (1888); _W. Winter’s Shadows of the stage_
(1892) 47–62, _Second series_ (1892) _pp._ 268–76; _The Theatre
ii_ 155 (1879) _portrait_, ii 122, 183–4, 247–9, 253, 255, 271–3
(1880) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news i_ 289, 294 (1874)
_portrait_, _viii_ 569, 575 (1878) _portrait_, _and 21 Aug.
1880 p._ 558, _portrait_; _Saturday programme 23 Sept. 1876_
_portrait_, _14 Oct. pp._ 6–7, _and 29 Nov. p._ 4; _Touchstone
27 April 1878 pp._ 3–4 _portrait_; _Lippincott’s Mag. xxx_ 623;
_Era Almanac_ (1893) 17 _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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