Chapter LI: Part 51

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

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

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

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

NEVILL, HENRY WILLIAM (son of Henry Nevill, farmer). _b._
Wherwell, near Andover, Hants 28 July 1819; baker at 23 Great
Wild st. Drury Lane, London 1839–44, at 17 Sidmouth st.
Clerkenwell 1842–52, at 16 Holborn Bars 1851–9; commenced using
hot water ovens 1860; opened a large bakery at 37 Bingfield st.
Caledonian road 1855, and ultimately additional bakeries at 94
Milkwood road, Herne hill 1871, the Harrow road, Leytonstone
1883, and at Avenue terrace, Acton lane, Acton 1885; he had
58 hot water ovens and used 3,000 sacks of flour a week; had
the largest business in London, where Nevill’s household bread
became everywhere well known. _d._ Ramsgate 18 Aug. 1889, will
proved Oct. 1889, left his business, etc. to his son Robert
Nevill, and his personalty of £288,256 17s. 1d. to his three
daughters. _The Miller 2 Sept. 1889 p._ 307 _portrait_, _4 Nov.
1889 p._ 380; _The Baker’s record 24 Aug. 1889 p._ 6 _portrait_.

NEVILLE, HENRY F. _b._ March 1822; educ. Maynooth coll.;
missioner North Parish, Cork 1847; professor of logic Oct. 1850,
and of theology 1852–69, in Maynooth college; D.D.; accompanied
Dr. Moriarty to Rome as his theologian; created Monsignor by the
Pope; minister of Passage and Monkstown 1870, and canon of Cork;
parish priest of St. Finn Bars, dean and vicar general of Cork
March 1875 to death; rector of Roman catholic univ. Dublin 1879;
author of A few comments on Mr. Gladstone’s Expostulation, with
some remarks on Vaticanism, 3 ed. 1875. _d._ Cork 15 Dec. 1889.
_bur._ Blackrock graveyard 17 Dec. _The Cork Examiner 16 Dec.
1889 p._ 2, _18 Dec. p._ 2; _The Tablet 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 999.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEWBURGH, MARGARET, Countess of (3 dau. of first marquess of
Ailsa 1770–1846). _b._ 16 June 1800; _m._ 14 Nov. 1817 John
Thomas Eyre, styled seventh earl of Newburgh, _b._ 1790 and
_d._ 22 May 1833; joined the church of Rome; a friend of lady
Lothian and lady Georgiana Fullerton; blind for some years but
still worked for the poor. _d._ 35 Wilton crescent, London 3
Sept. 1889. _P. Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890) _xxxii
portrait_.

NEWBURGH, MARIA CECILIA AGATHA ANNA JOSEPHA LAURENTIA DONATA
MELCHIORA BALTHASSARA GASPARA BANDINI, Countess of (only child
of Vincent, prince Giustiniani, styled 6 earl of Newburgh
1762–1826). _b._ Rome 5 Feb. 1796; _m._ 21 Sept. 1815 Charles, 4
marquis Bandini and Rustano in the Roman states, he _d._ 5 June
1851; succeeded her father as princess Giustiniani and countess
of Newburgh 13 Nov. 1826; naturalised by 20 and 21 Vict. cap.
14, 17 Aug. 1857; confirmed by the house of lords as countess of
Newburgh 30 July 1858. _d._ Rome May 1878.

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

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

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

NEWCASTLE, HENRY PELHAM PELHAM-CLINTON, 4 Duke of (elder son of
Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3 duke of Newcastle 1752–95). _b._ 30
Jany. 1785; styled lord Clinton 1785–94, and earl of Lincoln
1794–5; succeeded his father 17 May 1795; ed. at Eton 1796–1803;
went to France 1803, detained there 1803–7; lord lieut. of
Nottingham 20 Dec. 1809, dismissed 4 May 1839; K.G. 19 June
1812; the mob of Nottingham burnt Nottingham castle 10 Oct.
1831, for the damage done he was awarded sum of £21,000 in 1832;
author of Thoughts in times past, tested by subsequent events
1836. _d._ Clumber Park, Notts. 12 Jany. 1851. _bur._ in Markham
Clinton church 21 Jany. _Portraits of eminent conservatives
vol._ 1 (1836) _portrait_ 4; _I.L.N. xviii_ 37, 62, 64 (1851)
_portrait_; _G.M. xxxv_ 309 (1851); _Thoroton’s History of
Nottinghamshire iii_ 405 (1797); _J. E. Doyle’s Official
baronage ii_ 566 (1886) _portrait_.

NEWCASTLE, HENRY PELHAM PELHAM-CLINTON, 5 Duke of (eld. son of
the preceding). _b._ Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 22 May
1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832; styled Earl
of Lincoln 1811–51; M.P. for South Notts. 1832–46, and for
Falkirk burghs 1846–51; a lord of the treasury 31 Dec. 1834
to 20 April 1835; P.C. 3 Sept. 1841; first comr. of woods and
forests 25 Sept. 1841 to 10 March 1846; chief sec. to lord
lieut. of Ireland 14 Feb. 1846 to 6 July 1846; sec. of state for
the colonies 28 Dec. 1852 to June 1854; sec. of state for war
12 June 1854 to Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Notts. 2 Feb. 1857
to death; colonial sec. 18 June 1859 to April 1864; went to
Canada and United States with prince of Wales 1860; lord warden
of stannaries 6 Feb. 1862 to 1864; one of council to prince of
Wales Jany. 1863; K.G. 17 Dec. 1860. _d._ Clumber park, Worksop,
Notts. 18 Oct. 1864, personalty sworn under £250,000, 11 Feb.
1865. _C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire Worthies_ (1882) 353–5; _H.
Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 122–30; _The
Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 412–17; _Men of the time, British
statesmen_ (1854) 240–50; _G.M. xvii_ 783–86 (1864); _I.L.N.
viii_ 129 (1846) _portrait_; _The British cabinet in 1853_,
240–50; _Reynolds’s Miscellany xxvii_ 308 (1862) _portrait_.

NEWCASTLE, HENRY PELHAM ALEXANDER PELHAM-CLINTON, 6 Duke of.
_b._ 25 Jany. 1834; styled lord Clinton 1834–51, and earl of
Lincoln 1851–64; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 20 Oct.
1852; M.P. Newark 1857–9; succeeded 18 Oct. 1864; kept race
horses from 1856, but was always unfortunate; grand master of
the freemasons of Nottingham; bankrupt 11 Feb. 1870, bankruptcy
annulled 31 Jany. 1871. _d._ 10 Park place, St. James’s, London
22 Feb. 1879. _Baily’s mag. xii_ 1–3 (1867) _portrait_; _I.L.N.
xxx_ 385, 386 (1857) _portrait_.

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

NEWCOMBE, JOHN REILLY. _b._ Bath 20 March 1803; bought the
lease of the Swansea theatre; manager with Paul John Bedford
of theatre royal, Bath 12 April to 22 May 1841; lessee and
manager of theatre royal, Plymouth 16 April 1845 to death;
lessee and manager of Devonport theatre to 1874, also of
Barnstaple theatre; engaged Taglioni, the dancer, at salary of
£100 a night 1845, Macready played at Plymouth in Sept. 1849,
at a nightly salary of 50 guineas, to nearly empty houses,
on account of the cholera epidemic; lost £10,000 during his
first ten years 1845–55; the theatre partly burnt 1853; spent
£3,000 renovating the theatre, which was opened 19 Aug. 1861;
the house was damaged by fire 5 Jany. 1863, but re-opened 12
Jany.; it was burnt down 13 June 1878, when he lost £4,000, the
theatre was rebuilt by the town council and re-opened 24 Dec.
1878; presented with £700 and a silver salver by 237 friends
at duke of Cornwall hotel, Plymouth 6 Nov. 1878; was a good
low comedian, his three best parts were the Widow Twankey, Bob
Handy, and Jeremy Diddler; nearly always played in his Christmas
pantomime; was the oldest lessee and manager in England, and had
the last stock company in the provinces; hunted for 60 years
down to a few months before his death; judge at Plymouth race
meetings for some years; rode in several races. _d._ 4 Crescent
place, Plymouth 18 July 1887. _bur._ Plymouth cemetery 21 July.
_Era 23 July 1887 p._ 13; _Western Morning News 19 July 1887 p._
5, _22 July p._ 5.

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

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

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

NEWCOMEN, ARTHUR HENRY TURNER (son of Arthur Newcomen, 1 lieut.
royal horse artillery, _d._ 1848). _b._ Kirkleatham hall,
near Redcar 1844; master of a pack of harriers at the age of
thirteen; master of the Cleveland hounds 1875 to death; a
breeder of horses, and owner of race horses; the chief promoter
of the Redcar race course and grand stand; a good shot, a
fisherman, and a cricketer. _d._ 6 April 1884. _Baily’s Mag.
xxvii_ 311 (1875) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEWMAN, EDWARD (eld. son of George Newman, woolstapler). _b._
Hampstead 13 May 1801; ed. at Painswick, Gloucs. 1812–7; a
woolstapler with his father at Godalming, Surrey 1817–26; owned
a ropewalk at Deptford 1826–37; printer with George Luxford
at the sign of the Bouncing B, Ratcliff highway, London 1840,
Luxford retired 1841; Newman removed to 9 Devonshire st.
Bishopsgate 1841, retired 1870; one of the four founders of the
Entomological club 1826, editor of the Journal started 1832,
one of chief founders of Entomological Society which grew out
of the club 1833; F.L.S. 1833; edited The Entomologist 1840–3,
and The Zoologist, 34 vols. 1843–63, and Montagu’s A dictionary
of British birds 1866; brought out and wrote much in The
Phytologist, monthly magazine June 1841 to June 1854; curator
of the Entomological club’s museum, to which he gave his entire
collection 1842; natural history editor of The Field 1858 to
death; author of The grammar of entomology 1835, 2 ed. under
title of A familiar introduction to the history of insects 1841;
A history of British ferns 1840, 3 ed. 1854; The insect hunter,
or entomology in verse 1857 anon.; Birdnesting and bird skinning
1861, 2 ed. 1888; edited An illustrated history of British moths
1869; An illustrated history of British butterflies 1870–1. _d._
7 York grove, Peckham 12 June 1876. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery. _T.
P. Newman’s Memoir of Edward Newman_ (1876) _portrait_; _Joseph
Smith’s Friends’ Books ii_ 236–7 (1867); _Biographical catalogue
of lives of Friends_ (1888) 467–72; _Leisure Hour xxix_ 629.

NEWMAN, EDWARD. _b._ Newton Abbot, Devon 1832; an engineer
in Swindon locomotive works; second class assist. engineer
R.N. Oct. 1853, engineer June 1859, chief engineer 26 Feb.
1866; first assistant to chief engineer at Portsmouth 1867,
superintendent of the steam department 1872 to death; wounded
in the explosion on board the Thunderer 14 July 1876, when
superintending the trial of the engines, from the effects of
which he never fully recovered. _d._ Portsmouth dockyard 4 Dec.
1882. _bur._ Haslar hospital with naval honors 8 Dec. _The
Engineer 8 Dec. 1882 p._ 426; _The Army and navy gazette 9 Dec.
1882 p._ 1011; _The Times 7 Dec. 1882 p._ 10.

NEWMAN, FREDERICK, D.D.; a bishop of the Free church of England
and president of the London district; author of The true church
of Christ, a lecture 1856; Thoughts on church orders and
government, historically, ecclesiastically and scripturally
considered 1877. _d._ Willesborough, near Ashford, Kent 12 Oct.
1887. _The Free church of England Mag. July 1884 p._ 114 _et
seq._

NEWMAN, HORATIO TOWNSEND. _b._ 1781; ordained deacon 6 July
1806, priest 12 July 1807; prebendary of Kilbrogan 1818–42;
dean of Cork 24 March 1842 to death; author of A brief view of
ecclesiastical history from the earliest periods to the present
time 1844, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ Cork 6 Jany. 1864.

NEWMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1804; apprenticed to Gosling and Eglen of
New Bond st. London, booksellers; historical and parliamentary
bookseller at 225 High Holborn, London about 1830 to death. _d._
St. Leonard’s, near Hastings 28 May 1877. _Bookseller June 1877
p._ 500.

NEWMAN, JOHN (son of John Newman, wholesale dealer in leather,
_d._ Hampstead 1 Oct. 1808). _bapt._ at St. Sepulchre’s church,
London 8 July 1786; employed under sir Robert Smirke in the
erection of Covent Garden theatre 1809, and at the general post
office 1823–9; one of the three surveyors in the commission of
sewers for Kent and Surrey about 1815; designed R.C. church of
St. Mary, Blomfield st. Moorfields, London 1817–20, the school
for the blind in St. George’s fields, Southwark 1834–8, and St.
Olave’s girls’ school, Maze road, Southwark 1839–40; clerk of
the Bridge house estates; an original fellow of Institute of
British architects 1834; F.S.A. 1830–49; his collection of the
antiquities found in and near London, was sold by auction at
Sotheby’s 1848; retired from practice 1851. _d._ at house of his
son-in-law Dr. Alexander Spiers at Passy, near Paris 3 Jany.
1859.

NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (eld. child of John Newman, partner in bank
of Ramsbottoms, Newman, Ramsbottom and co. 72 Lombard street,
London). _b._ Old Broad st. London 21 Feb. 1801; ed. at Dr.
Nicholas’s school, Ealing 1808–16; entered at Trin. coll.
Oxf. 14 Dec. 1816, scholar 1818; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, B.D.
1836; student at Lincoln’s inn 1819; fellow of Oriel coll. 12
April 1822, tutor 1826–32; C. of St. Clement’s ch. Oxford 13
June 1824; vice-principal of Alban Hall, Oxford March 1825–6;
one of the preachers at Whitehall 1827; V. of St. Mary’s,
Oxford 14 March 1828, resigned 18 Sept. 1843; a select univ.
preacher 1831–2; began the Tracts for the times Sept. 1833,
and eventually wrote 29 of the series; editor of The British
Critic 1838 to July 1840; published Tract 90 1841; withdrew
from Oxford 1841, resided at Littlemore monastery 1841–4;
received into Church of Rome by Father Dominic the Passionist at
Littlemore 9 Oct. 1845; quitted Oxford 23 Feb. 1846; ordained
priest and received degree of doctor of divinity at Rome 30 May
1847; established the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Alcester
st. Birmingham 1848, it was subsequently removed to Edgbaston;
founded the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 24 and 25 King William
st. Strand, London, opened 31 May 1849, where he delivered his
Lectures on Anglican difficulties; fined £100 by Mr. Justice
Coleridge for libelling Dr. Achilli 23 Jany. 1853, his costs
of £14,000 were defrayed by public subscription; rector of the
Catholic university, Dublin 1854–8, which proved a failure;
honorary fellow of Trin. coll. Oxf. 28 Dec. 1877; created
cardinal of the title of St. George in Velabro at Rome 12 May
1879; author of Lyra Apostolica 1836, 3 ed. 1866; Parochial
sermons, 6 vols. 1834–42; Lectures on justification 1838, 4 ed.
1885; An essay on the development of Christian doctrine 1845,
3 ed. 1878; Apologia pro vita sua 1864, 3 ed. 1873; The dream
of Gerontius 1866, 23 ed. 1888; wrote upwards of 70 works,
besides editing many others; to some of his publications very
numerous printed replies were made; an edition of his works in
36 volumes was printed 1868–81. _d._ the Oratory, Edgbaston 11
Aug. 1890. _bur._ at Rednal, busts by Westmacott and Woolner, a
statue is to be erected by public subscription in front of the
London oratory in the Brompton road. _J. H. Newman’s Apologia
pro vita sua_ (1864); _Anne Mozley’s Letters and correspondence
of J. H. Newman_, 2 _vols._ 1891; _R. W. Church’s The Oxford
movement_ (1891) 5 _et seq._; _Illust. Review iii_ 577–85 (1872)
_portrait_; _R. H. Hutton’s Cardinal Newman_ (1891) _portrait_;
_T. Mozley’s Reminiscences_, 2 _vols._ (1882) _passim_; _C. K.
Paul’s Biographical sketches_ (1883) 171–224; _Memoir of J. R.
Hope-Scott_, 2 _vols._ (1884) _passim_; _Edgbastonia iv_ 65–69
(1884) _portrait_; _The Lamp ii_ 303 (1851) _portrait_; _Graphic
xxii_ 497 (1880) _portrait_; _I.L.N. v_ 45 (1844) _portrait_,
_lxxiv_ 456 (1879) _portrait_, _19 Oct. 1889 full page portrait_.

NOTE.--He is described in Maude, or the Anglican sister of mercy, by Miss Elizabeth Jane Whately 1869, under the name of Dr. Oldacre.

NEWMAN, SIR LYDSTON, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Robert William
Newman, 1 bart., M.P. 1776–1848). _b._ Sandridge, Devon 14 Nov.
1823; ensign 72 Highlanders 28 March 1844, captain 19 July
1850, served at Gibraltar and in West Indies; capt. 7 hussars
17 June 1851, sold out 9 May 1856, served in the Crimea 1854–5;
sheriff of Devon 1871; succeeded his brother sir R. Newman, who
fell at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; kept race horses from 1856; had
a large breeding establishment at Mamhead 1857–68, had annual
sales in June when he obtained good prices; bought Gemma di
Vergy for 1,010 guineas. _d._ Mamhead, near Exeter 29 Dec. 1892.
_Biograph iii_ 220–4 (1880); _Baily’s Mag. ix_ 325–6 (1864)
_portrait_; _lix_ 140 (1893).

NEWMAN, WILLIAM ABIAH (eld. son of James Newman). _b._ St.
Pancras, London 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838,
M.A. 1842; M.A. Oxford 1847, B.D. and D.D. 7 June 1855; C. of
St. George’s, Wolverhampton 1840–54; C. of Collegiate church,
Wolverhampton 1854; chaplain Wolverhampton general hospital;
dean of Capetown 1851–8; special preacher for the S.P.G. 1856;
C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1858–9; edited South African
magazine 1850–52; author of The martyrs, the dreams, and other
poems, Wolverhampton 1847; The gospel of Christ exemplified in
the writings of Paul 1848; A lecture on the Cape of Good Hope
1856; St. Peter’s church, Wolverhampton, an address 1857. _d._
Hastings 7 Feb. 1864. _Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_
(1894) 327.

NEWMARCH, WILLIAM. _b._ Thirsk, Yorkshire 28 Jany. 1820; second
cashier in bank of Leatham, Tew, & Co. of Wakefield 1843–6;
second officer of London branch of the Agra bank 1846–51; joined
the staff of the Morning Chronicle about 1846; secretary of the
Globe insurance co. 1851; manager in bank of Glyn, Mills, & co.
1862–81; secretary of the Statistical society 1862–9, edited
the Journal for five years, president 1869; secretary of the
Political economy club some years; gave evidence before select
committee on the Bank acts 1857; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author
of The new supplies of gold 1853; On the loans raised by Mr.
Pitt during the first French war 1793–1801, 1855; A history of
prices and of the state of the circulation during the nine years
1848–56, 1857, translated into German; The political perils of
1859, 1859. _d._ 3 Sulyarde terrace, Torquay 23 March 1882.
_bur._ Norwood 27 March, the Newmarch professorship of economic
science and statistics at University college, London was founded
in his memory. _Journal of Statistical Society_ (1882) 115–9,
209, 284, 333, 389, 397, 519–21; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv p.
xvii_ (1883).

NEWNHAM, WILLIAM (son of a general medical practitioner). _b._
Farnham, Surrey 1 Nov. 1790; studied at Guy’s hospital and in
Paris; pupil of sir Astley Cooper; practised at Farnham to 1856;
an early member of Provincial medical and surgical assoc. 1836,
a trustee of its benevolent fund and general manager 1847–55;
author of A tribute of sympathy addressed to mourners 1817, 8
ed. 1842; An essay on inversio uteri 1818; The principles of
physical, intellectual, moral, and religious education, 2 vols.
1827; Essay on superstition 1830; Essay on disorders incident to
literary men 1836; Human magnetism, its claims to dispassionate
inquiry 1845. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 24 Oct. 1865.

NEWPORT, GEORGE (son of a wheelwright). b. Canterbury 4 July
1803; curator of Mr. Masters’s natural history museum; entered
London univ. 16 Jany. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1835, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843;
house surgeon to Chichester infirmary April 1835 to Jany. 1837;
practised in London 1837; received royal medal of Royal Society
for his paper, printed in Philosophical Transactions 1851,
pp. 169–242, entitled On the impregnation of the ovum in the
amphibia; president of Entomological Soc. 1844–5; F.R.S. 26
March 1846, member of council to death; F.L.S. 1847; granted
civil list pension of £100 a year 16 Nov. 1847; author of
Observations on the anatomy, habits, and economy of Athalia
Centifoliæ, the saw-fly of the turnip 1838; Catalogue of
Myriapoda in the British Museum 1856. _d._ 55 Cambridge st. Hyde
park, London 7 April 1854. _Proc. of Royal Soc. vii_ 278–85
(1855); _Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii_ 309–12 (1855).

NEWSOME, TIMOTHY (brother of James Newsome, circus proprietor).
_b._ 1813; a lion tamer of great courage and nerve; served with
Hilton, Manders, Wombwell, Batty, Newsome and other menagerie
proprietors; received 25 wounds in an encounter with a lion
at Middleton, near Manchester, when he killed the lion with a
stroke from the butt end of a musket; his body was quite scarred
with the wounds he had received in combats with wild animals;
his wife, also a lion tamer, _d._ 1874, and was _bur._ Bury,
Lincolnshire; he _d._ Preston, North Shields March 1890. _bur._
Preston cemetery 25 March.

NEWSON, SAMUEL. _b._ 1816; a private in the army, served
in the Crimea; a hawker of fish; a street itinerant in the
neighbourhood of Shepherd’s market and other localities,
who went about with a wooden sword reciting passages from
Shakespeare, chiefly from Richard iii and Romeo and Juliet;
generally called Richard the Third. _run over_ by a Hansom
cab in Piccadilly, London 28 March 1880, on being taken to St.
George’s hospital was found to be dead. _The Times 10 April 1880
p._ 12.

NEWTON, ADELAIDE LEAPER. _b._ Derby 1 March 1824; author of The
song of Solomon compared with other parts of scripture 1850; The
epistle to the Hebrews compared with the old testament 1854; The
heavenly life, select writings of A. L. Newton 1856; Sabbath
hours 1862; The eternal purposes of God 1868. _d._ 26 April
1854. _A memoir of A. L. Newton_, _By Rev. John Baillie_, _2
ed._ (1856) _portrait_.

NEWTON, ALFRED PIZZI. _b._ Essex 1830; painted water-colour
pictures in the highlands of Scotland; selected by the queen
to paint a picture as a wedding gift to the princess royal
1858; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours
1 March 1858, member 24 March 1879; exhibited 4 landscapes
at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1855–9; his best known pictures
are Mountain gloom 1860, The Mountain pass 1880, and Shetland
desolation 1882. _d._ at house of his father-in-law Edward Wylie
14 Rock park, Rockferry, Liverpool 9 Sept. 1883. _I.L.N. 27 Oct.
1883 p._ 405 _portrait_.

NEWTON, ANN MARY (dau. of Joseph Severn, painter, _d._ Rome 2
Aug. 1879). _b._ Rome 29 June 1832; studied under Ary Scheffer
in Paris; painted many portraits in England; exhibited 7
portraits at the R.A. 1863–5; _m._ 27 April 1861 Sir Charles
Thomas Newton 1816–94; made many drawings of the antiquities
at the British Museum for her husband’s books and lectures;
made many sketches in Greece and Asia Minor. _d._ 37 Gower st.
Bedford sq. London 2 Jany. 1866.

NEWTON, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (son of rev. Newton Dickinson Hand
Newton, V. of Bredwardine, Hereford, _d._ 1853). _b._ 1816; ed.
at Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.C.L.
1875; LL.D. Cambridge and Ph.D. Strasburg 1879; Assistant in
department of antiquities, British Museum May 1840 to Jany.
1852; vice consul at Mytilene 24 Jany. 1852; acting consul at
Rhodes April 1852 to Jany. 1853; superintended excavations
at Budrum and Cape Crio April 1856 to April 1859, discovered
the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus; consul at Rome 10 June
1859 to 16 Jany. 1861; head of department of Greek and Roman
antiquities in British Museum 17 Jany. 1861, resigned Dec.
1885; purchased for the Museum 1874 the collection of gems of
the Duc de Blacus for £48,000, also the collection of bronzes,
vases, &c. of Alexandro Castellani; antiquary to the Royal
academy; corresponding member of the French institute; hon.
fell. of Worcester coll. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1874; C.B. 16 Nov. 1875,
K.C.B. 21 June 1887; presided at nearly all the meetings of the
Hellenic Society 1879–84; the first professor of archæology in
Univ. coll. London July 1880, resigned 1889; author of Notes
on the sculptures at Wilton house, privately printed 1849; A
history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchida,
2 vols. 1862; Travels and discoveries in the Levant, 2 vols.
1865; Essays on art and archæology 1880; translated Panofka’s
Manners and customs of the Greeks 1849; edited The collection
of ancient Greek inscriptions in the British museum 1874. _d._
Westgate-on-Sea, Kent 28 Nov. 1894. _National Review Jany. 1895
pp._ 616–27; _I.L.N. 8 Dec. 1894 p._ 700 _portrait_; _Times 30
Nov. 1894 p._ 10.

NEWTON, HORACE PARKER (3 son of Wm. Newton of Elveden, Suffolk).
_b._ 29 Oct. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 11 Jany. 1843, col. 4 Feb.
1874; served in Crimean war 1854–6; commanded R.A. in Western
district 1876–81; M.G. 13 Feb. 1881; placed on retired list with
hon. rank of L.G. 1 Feb. 1882. _d._ London 23 Sept. 1890.

NEWTON, RICHARD. _b._ Liverpool 25 July 1813; graduated at univ.
of Pennsylvania 1836, and at general theological seminary, New
York 1839; R. of Holy Trinity ch., West Chester 1839; R. of St.
Paul’s ch., Philadelphia 1840–62; R. of ch. of the Epiphany,
Philadelphia 1862–81; R. of ch. of the Covenant, Philadelphia
1881 to death; D.D. Kenyon college, Ohio 1862; his sermons for
children have been translated into French, German, Arabic,
and other languages; author of The giants and how to fight
them 1861, 9 ed. 1881; Rills from the fountain of life 1860,
6 ed. 1877; The king’s highway 1861; 5 ed. 1878; Bible jewels
1868, 3 ed. 1877, Nature’s mighty wonders 1871, 2 ed. 1877.
_d._ Philadelphia 25 May 1887. _R. Newton’s The heath in the
wilderness, to which is added the story of his life by W. W.
N._, _New York_ (1888).

NEWTON, ROBERT (4 son of Francis Newton, farmer 1732–1816).
_b._ Roxby, north riding of Yorkshire 8 Sept. 1780; preached
his first sermon 1798; Wesleyan minister in London 1812–4, at
Liverpool 1817–20, 1826–32 and 1850–2, at Manchester 1820–6,
1832–5 and 1841–7, at Leeds 1835–41, and at Stockport 1847–50;
gave his services during the week to the rural districts,
travelling from six to eight thousand miles a year on preaching
tours; president of the Wesleyan conference 1824, 1832, 1840 and
1848, secretary of the conference 19 times; visited Ireland 1822
for first time, and America 1839; created D.D. by an American
univ. 1839; author of Memoirs of the late Mr. Francis Newton,
Wakefield 1817; Sermons on special and ordinary occasions,
edited by J. H. Rigg 1856. _d._ Easingwold, near York 30
April 1854. _T. Jackson’s Life of Rev. Robert Newton_ (1855)
_portrait_; _A. Stevens’s History of methodism ii_ 364–8, 442,
610, 647 (1873–4) _portrait_; _G. Smales’s Whitby authors_
(1867) 129–41; _The lamps of the temple_, _3 ed._ (1856) 269–81;
_The Pulpit v_ (1826) _portrait_; _J. Evans’ Lancashire authors_
(1850) 189–93.

NEWTON, THOMAS DUNCOMBE (son of John Newton of the customs
house, Plymouth). _b._ Weymouth 1799; educ. Totnes gram. sch.;
member of Plymouth glee and madrigal club; a founder of The
Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Roger, sacristan 17
May 1829; friend of Charles Mathews. _d._ 5 West Hoe terrace,
Plymouth 1869. _Wrights’ The Blue Friars_ (1889) 141, 217–18
_portrait_.

NEWTON, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Newton of Chancery lane, London,
globe maker). _b._ London 1786; globe maker, land surveyor, and
draftsman at 66 Chancery lane, London, afterwards patent agent
at same address to death; established London Journal of arts and
sciences 1820, edited it to his death; introduced many valuable
improvements into manufacture of globes and projection of maps;
A.I.C.E. 1837; Associate of British archæological association
1846, contributed papers to the Journal; author of Letters
and suggestions upon the amendment of the patent laws 1835; A
display of heraldry 1846; London in the olden time 1855. _d._
Clarence house, Herne Bay 10 July 1861. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxi_ 593 (1862); _Journal of British Archæol.
Assoc. xviii_ 359–60 (1862).

NEWTON, WILLIAM. Resided at 35 Arbour sq. Stepney, London;
member of metropolitan board of works for Mile End Old Town 1862
to death. _d._ 41 Stepney Green, London 9 March 1876.

NEWTON, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ about 1789; lieutenant 1 foot 23
Aug. 1804; captain 64 foot 25 June 1808; captain 62 foot 29
June 1815, placed on h.p. 25 May 1817; major in the army 27
May 1825, placed on h.p. 11 May 1826; lieut. col. in the army
28 June 1838; major royal Canadian rifle regiment 16 July 1841,
lieut. col. 18 Dec. 1845, sold out 9 Dec. 1849; K.H. 1836. _d._
1874.

NEWTON, SIR WILLIAM JOHN (son of James Newton the engraver).
_b._ London 1785; engraved a few plates; became a
miniature-painter; exhibited 343 miniatures at the R.A. 1808–63;
miniature-painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and queen Adelaide 1831,
and to Victoria 1837–58; knighted by the queen at St. James’s
palace 19 July 1837; invented a plan for joining several pieces
of ivory to form a large surface; his three large miniatures The
coronation of the queen 1838, The marriage of the queen 1840,
and The christening of the prince of Wales 1842, were lent to
the Victorian exhibition at the New gallery 1892; many of his
portraits were engraved; a collection of his works was sold at
Christie’s 23 June 1890. _d._ 6 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park,
London 22 Jany. 1869.

NEWTON, WILLIAM SAMUEL. _b._ 16 Aug. 1816; ensign Coldstream
guards 5 Dec. 1834, lieut. col. 13 Dec. 1860 to 2 July 1861;
served in the Crimean campaign Oct. 1854 to April 1855;
commanded at Malta 1868–70, at Dublin 1870–72; col. 82 foot 4
March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list
1 July 1881. _d._ Eastbourne 16 Oct. 1889.

NIAS, SIR JOSEPH (3 son of Joseph Nias, ship insurance broker).
_b._ London 2 April 1793; entered navy 19 Nov. 1807; served in
W. E. Parry’s three expeditions to the Arctic regions 1818–23;
first lieutenant of the Asia at battle of Navarino 7 Sept. 1829,
captain 8 July 1835; captain of the Herald, frigate in the East
Indies 1838–43, served at capture of Canton; commanded the
Ordinary at Devonport 1850–3; granted good service pension 12
Jany. 1854; superintendent of victualling yard and hospital at
Plymouth 2 Nov. 1854 to 13 Nov. 1856; R.A. 14 Feb. 1857, V.A.
12 Sept. 1863, retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867; C.B. 29 June 1841,
K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 56 Montagu sq. London 17 Dec. 1879.

NIBLO, WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1789; went to New York, where he
established a hotel and coffee-house; proprietor of Niblo’s
Garden, New York 1829; purchased the library of Dr. Francis L.
Hawks and presented it to New York historical society; left a
library to the New York Young men’s christian association. _d._
New York 21 Aug. 1875.

NICHOL, JAMES. _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire 1806; publisher
in Edinburgh 1859 to death. _d._ Edinburgh 26 April 1866.
_Bookseller May 1866 p._ 481.

NICHOL, JOHN (only son of the succeeding). _b._ Montrose,
Forfarshire 8 Sept. 1833; ed. in univ. of Glasgow 1848–55, and
at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1855–9; B.A. Oxford 1859, M.A. 1874; LL.D.
St. Andrews 1873, student of Gray’s Inn 12 Nov. 1859; professor
of English literature in univ. of Glasgow 1861, resigned 1889; a
private tutor at Oxford; lectured especially to ladies’ classes
in Scotland and England; author of Fragments of criticism 1860;
Hannibal, a classical drama 1872; Tables of European literature
and history A.D. 200–1876, 1876, 5 ed. 1888; The death of
Themistocles and other poems 1881; American literature, an
historical review 1882; Lord Bacon’s Life and philosophy, 2
vols. 1887–9. _d._ 11 Stafford terrace, Kensington, London 11
Oct. 1894.

NICHOL, JOHN PRINGLE (eld. son of John Nichol, gentleman
farmer). _b._ Huntly Hill, near Brechin, Forfarshire 13 Jany.
1804; ed. at King’s college, Aberdeen; licensed as a preacher
before he came of age; head master of the Hawick gr. sch.;
editor of the Fife Herald; head master of Cupar academy; rector
of Montrose academy 1827–34; regius professor of astronomy in
univ. of Glasgow 1836 to death, procured transference of the
Glasgow observatory from the college grounds to its present
site at Dowanhill 1840; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1837; F.R.A.S.;
F.R.S. Edinb. 1836; author of Views of the architecture of the
heavens 1837, 9 ed. 1868; Phenomena of the solar system 1838;
The system of the world 1846, 2 ed. 1848; The stellar universe
1847; The planetary system 1848; The planet Neptune 1855; A
cyclopædia of the physical sciences 1857; translated Willm’s
Education of the people 1847; one of the editors of Mackenzie’s
Imperial dictionary of biography 1857. _d._ Glenburn house, near
Rothesay, Buteshire 19 Sept. 1859. _Maclehose’s Hundred, Glasgow
men ii_ 249–52 (1886) _portrait_; _G. Gilfillan’s A second
gallery of literary portraits_ (1850) 231–55; _C. Mackay’s Forty
years’ recollections i_ 313–24 (1877).

NICHOLAS, RICHARD GRIFFIN. _b._ 23 Jany. 1843; cornet 3 dragoon
guards 18 Feb. 1862, sold out 3 April 1866; served in the ranks
5 years and 9 months; riding master 4 dragoon guards 13 April
1872; lieut. 1 dragoon guards 14 Feb. 1874, adjutant 1874–81;
captain 5 lancers 15 Oct. 1881; captain 1 dragoon guards 1
April 1882 to death. _d._ Canterbury 23 Jany. 1884. _bur._ St.
Thomas’s hill cemet. 26 Jany.

NICHOLAS, THOMAS. _b._ near Treffgarne chapel, Solva,
Pembrokeshire 1820; ed. at Lancashire college, Manchester and in
Germany, where he took degree of Ph.D.; became a Presbyterian
minister; professor of biblical literature and mental and moral
science at Presbyterian college, Carmarthen 1856, resigned
1863 and settled in London; one of promoters of a scheme for
the furtherance of higher education in Wales on unsectarian
principles, the University college of Wales was founded at
Aberystwith 1867, one of the governors, drew out a new scheme
of education; author of Middle and high class schools and
university education for Wales 1863; Pedigree of the English
people 1868, 5 ed. 1878; Annals and antiquities of the counties
and county families of Wales, 2 vols. 1872; History and
antiquities of the county of Glamorgan and its families 1874.
_d._ 156 Cromwell road, London 14 May 1879. _Athenæum 24 May
1879 p._ 662.

NICHOLAS, TRESSILIAN GEORGE (5 son of George Nicholas of St.
George’s, Westminster). matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 25 April
1839, aged 17; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading
1845–6; P.C. of West Molesey, Surrey 1846–59; V. of Lower
Halstow, Kent 1859–63; V. of West Molesey 1863 to death; author
of Poems 1851; Sermon before the lord mayor and sheriffs of
London 1858. _d._ West Molesey vicarage 23 Jany. 1891.

NICHOLAY, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Furrier to the queen and royal family
at 82 Oxford st. London to death; member of Metropolitan board
of works for St. Marylebone 1856 to death. _d._ 82 Oxford st.
London 20 Nov. 1873.

NICHOLDS, JOSEPH. _b._ near Birmingham; wrote three oratorios,
one of which, Babylon, was published posthumously, the others,
Miriam and The Redemption are still in manuscript; published
Sacred music, a selection of psalm and hymn tunes 1820. _d._
Sedgeley, near Dudley 18 Feb. 1860.

NICHOLETTS, GILBERT (1 son of John Nicholetts of South
Petherton, Somerset). _b._ 13 July 1826; educ. Rugby; lieut. 1
Bombay fusiliers 27 July 1848; adjutant to 1 Baluchis regiment
1854; served with 1 Sind horse in Persian war 1856, Persian
medal and clasp; with 1 Baluchis regiment during Indian mutiny
1857–8, and was present in several actions; at the attack on
Rampur Kussia succeeded to temporary command of the regiment
and held it throughout the campaign; second in command of 1
Baluchis regiment 16 Sept. 1858 to 12 Feb. 1867; commandant
of 2 Baluchis regiment 12 Feb. 1867 to death; lieut. col.
Bombay staff corps 27 July 1874 to death; served in Afghan
campaign 1878–9. _d._ Kokaran, Afghanistan 18 July 1879. _S. H.
Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_ (1882) 146–7 _portrait_.

NICHOLL, FREDERICK ILTID. _b._ 1815; admitted solicitor 1840;
practised at 18 Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1844, afterwards
at Howard st. Strand to death; member of council of Incorporated
law society 28 Nov. 1861, retired 1867; F.S.A. 30 May 1872. _d._
120 Harley st. London 25 Feb. 1893.

NICHOLL, GEORGE WHITLOCK (2 son of Iltyd Nicholl of The Ham,
Cowbridge, Glamorganshire 1785–1871). _b._ 2 Feb. 1816;
barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1840; recorder of Usk Oct. 1861 to
death; constable of the castle of Llanblethian. _d._ 1889.

NICHOLL, JOHN (younger son of sir John Nicholl 1759–1838, dean
of Arches and judge of high court of admiralty). _b._ Lincoln’s
Inn Fields, London 21 Aug. 1797; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.C.L. 1823, D.C.L. 1825; barrister L.I. 1 July 1824;
advocate Doctors’ Commons 3 Nov. 1826; M.P. for Cardiff 1832–52;
one of junior lords of treasury 14 March to 18 April 1835; vicar
general of province of Canterbury Sept. 1838 to 1844; judge
advocate general 14 Sept. 1841 to 31 Jany. 1846; P.C. 14 Sept.
1841; chairman of Glamorganshire quarter sessions; member of
board of trade 21 Jany. 1846. _d._ Via Sistine, Rome 27 Jany.
1853. _bur._ in the English protestant burial ground at Rome 29
Jany. _G.M. xxxix_ 311 (1853); _I.L.N. xxii_ 134 (1853).

NICHOLL, JOHN (only son of John Nicholl, brewer, _d._ 1790).
_b._ Stratford Green, Essex 19 April 1790; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1843;
master of the Ironmongers’ Company 1859, compiled a history of
the company in seven folio volumes, the first six of which he
presented to the company 1840–4; printed for private circulation
Some account of the worshipful company of ironmongers 1851, 2
ed. 1866; collected in six folio volumes genealogical notes
made in the churches of Essex, and filled three folio volumes
with Essex pedigrees, and three others with pedigrees of the
various families of Nicholl, Nicholls, or Nichols; left in
manuscript collections for the history of Islington, and notes
on biblical criticism; privately printed his poems 1863. _d._ 8
Canonbury place, Islington 7 Feb. 1871. _bur._ in churchyard of
Theydon Garnon, Essex 13 Feb., portrait by Middleton placed in
court room of Ironmongers’ company 1851. _Nicholl’s Herald and
genealogist vii_ 83–5 (1873).

NICHOLLS, BENJAMIN. _b._ 1790; cotton manufacturer in Manchester
1816; built a mill in Chapel st. 1833; member of Manchester
town council Nov. 1845 to death; mayor 1853–5; alderman for St.
George’s ward 1855 to death; founded by his will the Nicholls
hospital. _d._ York house, Oxford st. Manchester 1 March 1877.