Chapter LII: Part 52

NICHOLLS, GEORGE. Ensign 66 foot 26 June 1799, captain 23 Oct.
1809 to 11 May 1826, when placed on h.p.; orderly officer to
Napoleon at St. Helena; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855. _d._ Rodney terrace,
Cheltenham 11 March 1857, aged 81.

NICHOLLS, SIR GEORGE (eld. child of Solomon Nicholls of St.
Keverne, Cornwall, _d._ 1793) _b._ St. Keverne 31 Dec. 1781;
ed. at Helston gr. sch.; midshipman on board the East India
company’s ship the Abergaveny 1796; captain of the Lady
Lushington 1809; captain of the Bengal, which was burnt at Point
de Galle 18 Jany. 1815, when he lost about £30,000, left the
service 1815; resided at Southwell, Notts. 1815, overseer of
the poor there 1821, reduced the amount of relief from £2,000
to £500 in two years by abolishing outdoor relief; resided at
Gloucester 1823, where he controlled the Gloucester and Berkeley
ship canal; superintendent of Birmingham branch of Bank of
England Nov. 1826 to Aug. 1834; established the Birmingham
savings’ bank; a director of Birmingham canal navigation to
death, chairman the last 12 years; one of the three poor law
comrs. 18 Aug. 1834 to 17 Dec. 1847; his two reports on the
Irish poor law 1836–7 were the foundation of the provision of
the Irish poor law act 1838, directed the working of the measure
in Ireland Sept. 1838 to Nov. 1842; permanent secretary of the
poor law board 18 Dec. 1847, retired 27 Jany. 1851; C.B. 27
April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851; author of Eight letters on the
management of our poor, By An Overseer 1823; The farmer 1844; A
history of the English poor law, 2 vols. 1854; A history of the
Scotch poor law 1856; A history of the Irish poor law 1856. _d._
17 Hyde park st. London 24 March 1865. _bur._ Willesden cemetery
30 March. _Examiner 1 April 1865 p._ 193.

NICHOLLS, HENRY GEORGE (only son of sir George Nicholls, K.C.B.
1781–1865). _b._ 1825; educ. at Trinity coll. Camb., B.A. 1845,
M.A. 1848; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Dean Forest 1847 to death;
author of The forest of Dean 1858; The personalities of the
forest of Dean 1863; Iron making in the olden times as instanced
in the ancient mines, forges and furnaces of the forest of Dean
1866. _d._ 26 Porchester terrace, London 1 Jany. 1867.

NICHOLLS, JAMES. _b._ Norfolk; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1827,
F.R.C.S. 1852; M.R.C.P. 1861; medical adviser to Albert Life
assurance society; author of Notes on Shakespeare, 2 parts
1861–2; and of papers in The Lancet. _d._ 13 Saville row, London
2 Jany. 1870.

NICHOLLS, JAMES FAWCKNER (son of a builder at Sidmouth, Devon).
_b._ Sidmouth 26 May 1818; a draper at Benwick in the Isle
of Ely 1835; kept a school at Ramsay; traveller to a firm of
paper-stainers at Manchester; a paper-stainer at Bristol 1860–8;
city librarian of Bristol 1868 to death; the old city library
was extended into three free libraries; F.S.A. 1876; author of
The remarkable life, adventures, and discoveries of Sebastian
Cabot 1869; How to see Bristol, a guide for the excursionist,
the naturalist, the archæologist, and the man of business 1874,
2 ed. 1877; Bristol, past and present, an illustrated history of
Bristol and its neighbourhood, 2 parts 1881–2. _d._ Goodwick,
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire 19 Sept. 1883. _Biograph Nov. 1881 pp._
493–7.

NICHOLLS, JOHN ASHTON (only child of Benjamin Nicholls).
_b._ Grosvenor st. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 25 March
1823; ed. at Manchester New college 1840–4; a life member of
British Association June 1842; F.R.A.S. June 1849; entered
his father’s business 1844; secretary to the Ancoats Lyceum,
organised classes and delivered courses of lectures; helped to
form the Unitarian home missionary board 1854, one of the first
secretaries; chairman of directors of Manchester Athenæum 1856.
_d._ of low fever at Eagley house, Manchester 18 Sept. 1859.
_In memoriam, a selection from the letters of J. A. Nicholls_,
_privately printed_ (1862); _Christian Reformer_ (1859) 639 _et
seq._; _Wade’s Rise of nonconformity in Manchester_ (1880) 64
_et seq._

NOTE.--There is a tablet to his memory in Cross street chapel, Manchester; a granite obelisk in Great Ancoat st. was erected in his honour by the working men of Manchester July 1860. His parents devoted over £100,000 to the erection and endowment of an orphanage, the Nicholls hospital in Hyde road, as a memorial of their son.

NICHOLS, JAMES. _b._ Washington, Durham 6 April 1785; worked in
a factory at Holbeck 1793–7; ed. at Leeds gr. sch.; a Latin,
Greek, Hebrew, and Dutch scholar; tutor in a gentleman’s family;
printer and bookseller at Briggate, Leeds; edited the Leeds
Literary Observer, vol. 1 Jany. to Sept. 1819; printer at 22
Warwick sq. Newgate st. London 1820–32, and at 45 and 46 Hoxton
sq. 1832 to death; a friend of Southey, Tomline, and Wordsworth;
translated The works of Jacob Arminius 1825–75, 3 vols., vols.
1 and 2 by J. Nichols, vol. 3 by W. Nichols; edited Jeremiah
and Lamentations by B. Blayney, 3 ed. 1836; The history of the
university of Cambridge by T. Fuller 1840; The morning exercises
at Cripplegate, St. Giles by S. Annesley 1844; The divine
legation of Moses by W. Warburton 1846; The poetical works of
James Thomson 1849; The complete works of Dr. Edward Young
1854, 2 vols.; Poems by S. Wesley the younger 1862; The church
history of Britain by T. Fuller 1868; author of Calvinism and
Arminianism compared 1824. _d._ 45 Hoxton sq. London 26 Nov.
1861. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 503–6; _Athenæum
30 Nov. 1861 p._ 705, _and 7 Dec. p._ 769; _Watchman 27 Nov.
1861 p._ 391; _Two letters from Holland, addressed to the
translator of Arminius by A. D. A. V. D. Hoeven_ (1826).

NICHOLS, JOHN BOWYER (eld. son of John Nichols, printer and
author 1745–1826). _b._ Red Lion passage, Fleet st. London
15 July 1779; ed. at St. Paul’s school; entered his father’s
printing office Sept. 1796; helped to edit Gentleman’s Magazine
and contributed to it under the initials J. B. N. and N. R. S.;
sole proprietor of the Gent. Mag. 1833, sold it to John Henry
Parker June 1856; edited with Richard Gough vol. 4 of Hutchins’s
History of Dorset 1815; partner in firm of J. Nichols, son &
Bentley, printers 25 Parliament st. Westminster to death; a
registrar of royal literary fund 1821; master of the Stationers’
company 1850; printed nearly all the county histories published
1801–50; F.L.S. 1812; F.S.A. 1818, printer to the society 1824
to death; author of A brief account of the guildhall of the city
of London 1819; Account of the royal hospital and collegiate
church of St. Katherine, near the Tower 1824; Historical notices
of Fonthill abbey, Wiltshire 1836; Catalogue of the Hoare
library at Stourhead, co. Wilts. 1840; edited J. Cradock’s
Memoirs, vols. 3 and 4 1828; J. T. Smith’s Cries of London 1839;
R. Yates’s History of the abbey of St. Edmunds, Bury, 2 ed.
1843; and vols. 7 and 8 of his father’s Illustrations of the
literary history of the eighteenth century 1848–56. _d._ Hanger
Oak, Ealing 19 Oct. 1863. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 24 Oct.,
bust of him by W. Behnes exhibited at the R.A. 1858, his library
was sold at Sotheby’s for £6,175, May 1865. _W. Bates’s Maclise
portrait gallery_ (1883) 113–4.

NICHOLS, JOHN GOUGH (eld. child of the preceding). _b._ Red Lion
passage, Fleet st. London 22 May 1806; ed. at Lewisham 1814–6,
and at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1817–24; entered his father’s
printing office 1824; completed and edited his grandfather
John Nichols’s Progresses of king James the first, 4 vols.
1828; joint editor of Gent. Mag. 1828–51, sole editor 1851–6,
contributed many essays and compiled the obituary notices;
F.S.A. 3 Dec. 1835; a founder of the Camden Society 1838, edited
many of its publications and printed A descriptive catalogue
of the works of the Camden society 1862, new ed. 1872; printed
Hoare’s History of modern Wiltshire, 6 vols. 1822–44, in which
he wrote An account of the hundred of Alderbury 1837; edited
Collectanea topographica et genealogica, 8 vols. 1834–43; The
typographer and genealogist, 3 vols. 1846–8; founded the Herald
and Genealogist 1863, edited vols. 1–8 1863–74; founded the
Register and magazine of biography Jany. 1869, which ceased
after 12 monthly numbers; author of Autographs of royal, noble,
learned, and remarkable personages, from Richard II to Charles
II 1829; London pageants 1831, 2 ed. 1837; Description of the
church of St. Mary, Warwick, and of the Beauchamp chapel, London
1838; edited books for the Roxburgh club 1857–60. _d._ Holmwood
park, near Dorking, Surrey 14 Nov. 1873, his library was sold by
Sotheby Dec. 1874 for £2,195. _Memoir of J. G. Nichols by R. C.
Nichols_ (1874) _portrait_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries vi_
193–6 (1873–76); _Bigmore and Wyman’s Bibliography of printing
ii_ 76–7 (1884).

NICHOLS, ROBERT CRADOCK (brother of preceding). _b._ 1824;
printer 25 Parliament st. London; printer of the house of
commons votes; F.S.A. 23 Feb. 1854; F.R.G.S.; proprietor of
Highley manor, Balcombe, Sussex; edited for the Roxburghe club
A fragment of Partonope of Blois 1873; author of The passage of
the Col de la Temple and of the Col de l’Echauda, printed in
Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ii 183–97 (1862; resided Highley
manor, and 5 Sussex place, Hyde park. _d._ 26 May 1892, will
proved 21 July, personal estate £171,000.

NICHOLS, WILLIAM. Barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1818; commissioner for
relief of insolvent debtors 29 June 1860; one of registrars of
Manchester court of bankruptcy 21 July 1862; judge of county
courts, circuit 21, Warwickshire 22 Oct. 1862 to death. _d._
Mentone in Savoy 29 Dec. 1864.

NICHOLS, WILLIAM LUKE (eld. son of Luke Nichols of Gosport,
Hants, merchant). _b._ Gosport 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at Queen’s
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; C. of Keynsham, Somerset
1825; C. of Bedminster, near Bristol; minister of St. James’s,
Bath 1 Feb. 1834 to 31 March 1839; V. of Trinity church, Bath
1839–40; R. of Buckland Monachorum, near Plymouth 1846–51; R. D.
of Tavistock 1849–51; F.S.A. 2 Feb. 1865; had a fine library;
resided at the Woodlands, Somerset from 1870; author of Horæ
Romanæ or a visit to a Roman villa, Bath 1838; The Quantocks and
their associations, Bath 1873, 2 ed. 1891 with portrait; edited
Remains of the Rev. Francis Kilvert 1866; left by his will to
parish of Grosport funds for completion of a campanile, which
cost with the bells £2,500. _d._ the Woodlands, midway between
Nether Stowey and Alfoxden, Somerset 25 Sept. 1889. _bur._
Gosport churchyard 1 Oct. _Peach’s Historic houses in Bath_
(1884) _pp._ 7, 8, 9, 58; _The Bath Chronicle 3 Oct. 1889 p._ 3,
_10 Oct. p._ 3.

NICHOLSON, ALFRED. _b._ 1822; a player on the oboe; composer of
The Belvoir polka 1852; That day, a song 1854. _d._ Leicester 29
Aug. 1870.

NICHOLSON, BRINSLEY (eld. son of Brinsley Nicholson, surgeon 42
foot, _d._ 1857–9). _b._ Fort George, Scotland 1824; entered
Edinb. univ. 1841, M.D. 1845; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1845; assistant
surgeon in the army 25 Sept. 1846; assistant surgeon in rifle
corps 27 June 1851; surgeon 9 foot 23 Oct. 1857 to 16 Dec. 1859;
surgeon major at Cork 25 Sept. 1866, retired with hon. rank of
deputy inspector general 18 Nov. 1871; served in the Kaffir wars
1853–4, the war in China 1860, and the Maori war in New Zealand
1864; edited for the New Shakspeare society the first folio
and the first quarto of Henry the Fifth 1875, and the Parallel
texts of Henry the Fifth 1877; reprinted Reginald Scot’s The
discoverie of witchcraft 1886; edited The best plays of Ben
Jonson, 2 vols. 1893; his edition of Donne’s Poems was completed
for the Muses’ Library 1895. _d._ Surrenden lodge, Queen’s road,
South Norwood, Surrey 14 Sept. 1892.

NICHOLSON, CORNELIUS (his mother was postmistress of Ambleside
50 years). _b._ Ambleside 14 March 1804; with John Hudson
a bookseller and printer Sept. 1825; established a paper
manufactory at Burneside 1832, sold the business 1845; with
Thomas Gough founded Kendal natural history and scientific soc.
1836 and was hon. sec; aided in forming Kentmere reservoir;
a pioneer of railways in the North 1836 etc.; chief agent in
forming Kendal gas and water co. 1846; mayor of Kendal 1845–6;
lost his money by French revolution of 1848; managing director
in London of Great Indian peninsular railway 1848–57; F.G.S.
1849; received freedom of city of London 10 Oct. 1856; chairman
of Gas meter co. to 1877; resided at Muswell Hill from 1858,
and at Ashleigh, Ventnor from Sept. 1879; visited Russia 1862
and 1863; author of The annals of Kendal 1835, 2 ed. 1861 with
portrait; On the mental, moral, and social progress exhibited in
the present half-expired century 1855; The Roman station, Alauna
1860; Lord Robert de Clifford, where was he buried 1862; History
of the three royal charters of Kendal 1875; Scraps of history of
the northern suburbs of London 1879; An account of Roman villa
near Brading, Isle of Wight 1880. _d._ Ashleigh, Ventnor 5 July
1889. _Cornelia Nicholson’s A well spent life_, _memoir of C.
Nicholson_ (1890) _portrait_.

NICHOLSON, EDWARD CHAMBERS (7 son of Robert Nicholson of Lincoln
and Maidenhead). _b._ Lincoln Jany. 1827; educ. Uxbridge;
with a druggist at Andover; with Lloyd Bullock in Conduit st.
London; one of first students of Royal college of chemistry Oct.
1845–50; F.C.S. 1848; with Frederick Abel assisted professor
von A. W. Hofman in his researches in organic chemistry 1845;
for Fothergill & Co. Aberdare investigated the chemistry of
iron making 1850; with Simpson and Maule started a chemical
manufactory at Walworth, London 1853; introduced improvements
in manufacture of pyrogallol, ether and collodion; built a
factory at Hackney Wick for production of aniline and coal-tar
colours which acquired great importance and became an important
industry; discovered the arsenic acid process of manufacturing
magenta 1860; produced chrysaniline yellow, the lower phenylated
products of rosaniline, etc.; retired from business. _d._ of
cancer Carlton house, Herne hill, Surrey 23 Oct. 1890. _The
Times 27 Oct. 1890 p._ 10; _Journal of Chemical Soc. i_ 464–5
(1891).

NICHOLSON, GEORGE. _b._ Wheelgate, Malton 31 Oct. 1787;
instructor in art to Fitzwilliam family at Castle Howard,
Malton; resided Woodhouse Moor, Leeds; painter in oil and water
colours, etcher in copper, engraver and lithographer; painted
Tobit and the angel; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 3 at B.I.,
and 3 at Suffolk street 1831–2; published six etchings of Roche
abbey, Yorkshire. Malton 1824; Plas Newydd 1824. _d._ Filey,
Yorkshire 7 June 1878. _bur._ Malton old church _W. Smith’s Old
Yorkshire ii_ 90–2 (1890).

NICHOLSON, HENRY JOSEPH BOONE (son of John Payler Nicholson,
rector of St. Albans, _d._ 1817). _b._ Lisson grove, Middlesex
April 1795; educ. Marlowe, Hemel Hempstead, and Magdalen hall,
Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1835, D.D. 1839; F.S.A. 14
April 1853; F.R.S.A.; domestic chaplain to earl of Mexborough;
domestic chaplain to duke of Clarence March 1826; R. of St.
Albans 1835 to death; rural dean of St. Albans 1846 to death;
hon. canon of Rochester 1861 to death; proctor for the diocese
in convocation Aug. 1865; member of Numismatic soc. 1861; had
a collection of local coins; author of Some account of relics
at Cologne, considered to be part of the body of St. Alban,
proto-martyr 1851; The abbey of St. Alban 1851, 2 ed. 1856. _d._
St. Albans 27 July 1866. _bur._ St. Albans abbey 3 Aug. _G.M.
ii_ 411 (1866); _Numismatic Chronicle vii_ 12 (1867).

NICHOLSON, JOHN (eld. son of Alexander Nicholson of Dublin,
physician, _d._ 1830). _b._ Dublin 11 Dec. 1821; ed. at
Dungannon college; ensign Bengal army 24 Feb. 1839; ensign 27
Bengal N.I. Dec. 1839, adjutant 31 May 1843; defended Ghuzni
against the Afghans Dec. 1841, surrendered and was imprisoned;
brevet major 7 June 1849 for his services in the second Sikh
war 1848–9; an administrative officer at Bunnoo 1851–6, where
he reduced to order the most ignorant and bloodthirsty people
in the Punjab; a brotherhood of fakeers in Hazara commenced the
worship of Nikkul Seyn (J. Nicholson) in 1848, this sect lasted
till 1858; deputy comr. at Peshaware 1856; commanded the Punjab
movable column with rank of brigadier general 22 June 1857;
defeated the rebels at Trimmu Ghaut 12 July; marched into the
camp at Delhi 14 Aug.; defeated the rebels near Delhi 25 Aug.;
commanded the main storming party in the assault of Delhi 14
Sept., when he was shot through the chest. _d._ Delhi 23 Sept.
1857. _bur._ in new burial ground in front of the Kashmir Gate.
_J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers i_ 417–91 (1867); _R. G.
Wilberforce’s An unrecorded chapter of the Indian_ _mutiny_
(1894), _dedicated ‘To the memory of John Nicholson,’ contains
a view of his grave_; _I.L.N. xxxi_ 426, 564 (1857) _portrait_;
_Reynold’s Miscellany xix_ 349 (1858) _portrait_; _J. J.
Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 329–31.

NICHOLSON, JOHN (son of a carrier between Dumfries and Galloway,
and brother of Wm. Nicholson, the Galloway poet 1782–1849). _b._
in parish of Tongland, Kirkcudbright 1777; a handloom weaver;
enlisted in the Scots Greys; publisher at Kirkcudbright to
death; proprietor of the Stewartey Times. _d._ Kirkcudbright 11
Sept. 1866, left a son a bookseller at Kirkcudbright. _M. M.
Harper’s Rambles in Galloway_ (1876) 64–6.

NICHOLSON, JOHN (1 son of rev. Mark Nicholson, president of
Codrington college, Barbadoes, _d._ 1838). _b._ Barbadoes 1809;
educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; studied oriental languages
under professor G. H. A. von Ewald in Germany; Ph.D. of univ.
of Tübingen 1840; settled at Penrith in 1840; spent his life
in studying Eastern languages; a member of the Oriental soc.
40 years; contributed to J. Kitto’s Cyclopædia of Biblical
literature 1843–5; translated G. H. A. von Ewald’s A grammar of
the Hebrew language of the Old Testament 1836; An account of
the establishment of the Fatemite dynasty in Africa by Ali ibn
Husain ibn Ali 1840. _d._ Penrith Dec. 1886. _The Times 9 Dec.
1886 p._ 7.

NICHOLSON, JOHN. _b._ 1829 or 1830; assistant librarian in
library of society of Lincoln’s Inn, London 1843, librarian
11 Dec. 1877 to death; author of Catalogue of the Mendham
collection, being a selection of books and pamphlets from the
library of the late rev. Joseph Mendham 1871 and Supplement
1874; Catalogue of the printed books in the library of the hon.
society of Lincoln’s Inn, Supplementary volume containing the
additions from 1859–90, 1890. _d._ suddenly of heart disease
at his residence 228 Peckham rye, London 24 July 1894. _bur._
Forest hill, cemet. 28 July.

NICHOLSON, JOSHUA (son of Joshua Nicholson). _b._ Luddenden
Foot, near Halifax 26 Oct. 1812; apprenticed to a draper at
Bradford; resided at Leek, Staffs. 1837 to death, and travelled
over the United Kingdom for the silk manufacturing firm of J. &
J. Brough & Co. of Leek many years, admitted by them as partner,
title of firm being changed to J. & J. Brough, Nicholson & Co.,
he became the head of the firm which he made the most important
house in the trade; president of North Staffordshire Liberal
association many years; built the Nicholson Institute at Leek,
completed 1884 at cost of £30,000, the library contains 8,000
volumes, and 350 students attend the schools of art, science and
technology. _d._ Stockwell house, Leek 24 Aug. 1885. _W. Smith’s
Old Yorkshire ii_ 118–9 (1890) _portrait_.

NICHOLSON, SIR LOTHIAN (3 son of George Thomas Nicholson of
Waverley abbey, Surrey). _b._ Ham Common, Surrey 19 Jany. 1827;
ed. at R.M. academy, Woolwich 1844–6; 2 lieut. R.E. 6 Aug.
1846, colonel 20 July 1866, colonel commandant 28 June 1890 to
death; served in Crimean war July 1855 to June 1856, and in
Indian mutiny 1857–8; granted distinguished service reward 3
March 1881; commanded the R.E. in the London district 1861–6,
and at Gibraltar 1866–8; assistant A G. of R.E. in Ireland
1868–70; commanded the R.E. at Shorncliffe 27 Jany. 1872 to
1 Oct. 1878; lieutenant governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1878 to 30
Sept. 1883; inspector general of fortifications and of the R.E.
8 July 1886 to 25 March 1891; general 5 May 1888; governor and
commander-in-chief of Gibraltar 26 March 1891 to death; C.B. 14
May 1859, K.C.B. 21 June 1887. _d._ The Convent, Gibraltar 27
June 1893. _I.L.N. 8 July 1893 p._ 30 _portrait_.

NICHOLSON, NANCY (only dau. of rev. John Jackson, vicar of Drax,
Yorkshire, _d._ 1810). _b._ Drax 3 May 1787; _m._ Oct. 1811 rev.
John Nicholson, formerly an assistant in Mr. Jackson’s school
at Drax, then vicar of Drax 1810 and master of the grammar
school, _d._ 1850; separated from her husband Nov. 1814; a
great termagant, very eccentric, dishonest and a miser; was
burnt in effigy at Asselby, near Howden, Yorkshire 1850; joined
the church of Rome 1850 and again left it on being asked for a
subscription. _d._ Asselby 6 Aug. 1854, leaving considerable
property to her relations. _Life of Nancy Nicholson_; _S. B.
Gould’s Yorkshire Oddities ii_ 25–95 (1874).

NICHOLSON, NATHANIEL ALEXANDER (2 son of John Armytage Nicholson
of Dublin). Matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 26 Oct. 1843 aged
16; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1858; acted in Frank Talfourd’s burlesque
Macbeth travestie at Oxford 17 June 1847; author of The science
of exchanges 1861, 4 ed. 1873; E pur si muove 1866; Observations
on coinage, seignorage, etc. 1868, 3 ed. 1869; Matter and motion
1870; A shilling’s worth of political economy 1871; resided at 2
Oakland villas, Rathgar, near Dublin. _d._ 15 Feb. 1874.

NICHOLSON, RENTON. _b._ Hackney road, London 4 April 1809; ed.
at Henry Butter’s school, Islington; apprenticed to a pawnbroker
1821–4; employed by various pawnbrokers until 1830; a jeweller
at 99 Quadrant, Regent st. about March 1830, became insolvent
Nov. 1831; kept a cigar shop Warwick st. Regent st.; a wine
merchant in Leicester place, bankrupt 22 April 1836; edited
a weekly paper of fast life, entitled The Town 156 numbers 3
June 1837 to 23 May 1840; started with Joseph Last and Charles
Pitcher The Crown, a weekly paper supporting the beer-sellers,
which ran to 42 numbers 28 June 1838 to 14 April 1839; opened
with T. B. Simpson The Garrick’s head and Town hotel 27 Bow st.
Covent Garden 1841, where he established 8 March 1841 the Judge
and jury society, over which he presided as ‘The Lord Chief
Baron’; gave a three days’ fête at Cremorne Gardens 31 July and
1–2 Aug. 1843, and another fête at Easter 1844; had refreshment
booths on race courses and dancing booths at fairs; removed the
Judge and jury society to the Coal Hole tavern, Fountain court
103 Strand 1844; landlord of The Garrick’s Head 1847–9, where
he introduced the poses plastiques 1847, he presided there till
July 1851; rented the Justices’ tavern, Bow st. 1849 or 1850;
landlord of the Coal Hole tavern July 1851 to 1856; presided at
the Cider Cellar tavern 20 Maiden lane, Covent Garden 16 Jany.
1858 to death; was insolvent 6 Oct. 1849 and again 23 Feb. 1856;
proprietor and editor of Illustrated London Life 25 numbers
1843; author of Boxing, with a chronology of the ring 1837;
Cockney adventures 1838; Owen Swift’s Handbook of boxing 1840
anon; Miscellaneous writings of the lord chief baron, in monthly
numbers, part 1 May 1849 with portrait; Nicholson’s Noctes,
or nights and sights of London, 11 numbers 1852; Dombey and
daughter, a moral fiction 1858. _d._ Gordon tavern, 3 Piazza,
Covent Garden, London 18 May 1861. _bur._ Brompton cemet.
22 May. _The lord chief baron Nicholson, an autobiography_
(1860) _portrait_; _C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces_ (1891) 103–8
_portrait_; _Notes and Queries vi_ 477 (1870), _vii_ 18, 286,
327 (1871), _iii_ 3–5 (1893); _Vizetelly’s Glances back i_
168–70 (1893); _The Era 26 May 1861 p._ 7.

NOTE.--Views of the Judge and Jury club are in The Bachelor’s guide to life in London, p. 8, and in The Illust. Sporting News 21 May 1864, pp. 129, 133. A view of the Garrick’s Head booth at Epsom is in _Illustrated London Life_ 28 May 1843, p. 126, and a view of Nicholson’s Parlour at the Garrick’s Head is in the same paper 11 June p. 161.

The last scene of Frank Talfourd’s burlesque Shylock, produced at Olympic theatre 4 July 1853, represented the Judge and Jury society, in which Charles Bender, made up like Nicholson, opened the proceedings by calling ‘Waiter a glass of brandy and water and & cigar.’ The Society is referred to in R. H. Barham’s Ingoldsby Legends, 18 ed. 1860 in The Ghost, vol. ii, p. 296 as follows--

It more resembled one of later date
And tenfold talent, as I’m told, in Bow st.,
Where kindlier souls do congregate;
And though there are who deem that same a low street,
Yet I’m assured, for frolicsome debate
And genuine humour it’s surpassed by no street,
When the ‘Chief Baron’ enters and assumes
To rule o’er mimic Thesigers and Broughams.

NICHOLSON, ROBERT LAWRANCE (only son of Robert Lawrance
Nicholson of Cambridge). Author of Lady Nell and other poems.
_d._ Neuilly, near Paris 18 March 1880.

NICHOLSON, THOMAS. _b._ Hunslet, near Leeds 1805; a wire worker
in Manchester; a self taught French scholar; gave instruction in
French at the Ancoats lyceum; wrote in magazines and newspapers;
author of Visions of the muse, poems, and the Gallic lovers,
a tale 1828; A peal for the people 1849; The warehouse boy
of Manchester 1852; The thunderstorm 1857; The miser’s will,
MS. 1863; some of his poems are in John Harland’s Lancashire
Lyrics 1866, and others are in Gems of thought. _d._ Woodhouse,
Lancashire Dec. 1863. _R. W. Proctor’s Memorials of bygone
Manchester_ (1880) 207–9.

NICHOLSON, THOMAS. _b._ 12 March 1777; solicitor at Hertford
1803–24; town clerk of Hertford; under-sheriff for Herts.
1820–4; a barrister in Tasmania and comr. for investigating
claims to grants of land. _d._ Hawkswell, near Bedale, Yorkshire
9 Sept. 1878. _Solicitors’ Journal 21 Sept. 1878 p._ 888.

NICHOLSON, THOMAS WILLIAM. Lieutenant 55 foot 11 Oct. 1805,
major 12 June 1839; placed on h.p. with rank of lieut. col. 28
June 1839; served in the campaign of 1814 in Holland, severely
wounded at storming of Bergen-op-Zoom; lieut. col. 88 foot 31
Dec. 1841, but sold out same day; K.H. 1835. _d._ 1883.

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (son of Miles Nicholson, farmer). _b._
Tretting Mill, Lamplough, Cumberland 27 Feb. 1816; went to
Melbourne Oct. 1841, kept a grocer’s shop there, which became
the mercantile firm of W. Nicholson & Co. of Flinders street;
member of the city council for Latrobe ward 1848–52, alderman
1850, mayor 9 Nov. 1850; member for North Bourke in the
legislative council Oct. 1852; moved a resolution that any
electoral act should be based upon the principle of voting by
ballot 18 Dec. 1855, which he carried against the ministry by
eight votes; went to England 1856, became known as the ‘Father
of the ballot’; member of legislative assembly for Murray Jany.
1859, and for Sandridge Aug. 1859; chief secretary 27 Oct. 1859
to 26 Nov. 1860; settled the land question by the Land act of
1860; chairman of Melbourne chamber of commerce 1859. _d._ St.
Hilda, Melbourne 10 March 1865, portrait in council chamber of
Melbourne town-hall. _Heaton’s Australian dictionary_ (1879)
153, _part ii_ 158.

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM ADAMS (son of James Nicholson, a carpenter).
_b._ Southwell, Notts. 8 Aug. 1803; articled to J. B. Papworth
of London, architect July 1821–4; architect at Lincoln 1828
to death; partner with Goddard 1839–46; designed the churches
at Glandford-Brigg, at Wragby, and at Kirmond; restored many
churches; designed Worsborough hall, Yorkshire, the castle
of Bayons manor, and Elkington hall near Louth; designed the
town-hall at Mansfield; superintended rebuilding of village of
Blankney, near Lincoln, erected the Wesleyan chapel, Lincoln
1837, and the corn exchange 1847; F.R.I.B.A. _d._ Boston,
Lincs. 8 April 1853. _bur._ churchyard of St. Swithin, Lincoln.
_Dictionary of architecture vi_ 29 (1881).

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM NORRIS (eld. son of Isaac Nicholson of
Clapham common, Surrey). _b._ 1815; ed. at Charterhouse and
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; rowed in the first
match against the Leander club 9 June 1837, and again in 1844;
barrister L.I. 11 June 1841; a visitor in lunacy 1860 to 1877;
master in lunacy, with salary of £2,000, 1877 to death; an
active member of Marylebone cricket club; author of A statement
of the case of the deposed Rajah of Sattara 1845. _d._ 43
Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 17 Jany. 1889. _Law Times
23 Feb. 1889 p._ 322.

NICKINSON, JOHN (son of a Chelsea pensioner). _b._ London
1808; a drummer boy in 24 foot 1823, a sergeant 1825, bought
his discharge 1830; first appeared on the stage at Albany, New
York 6 Oct. 1830; played engagements at the Franklin, Park, and
Olympic theatres, New York; the original Mr. Dombey in John
Brougham’s play Dombey and Son at Burton’s theatre, New York
1848; played Haversac in Napoleon’s Old Guard, Monsieur Jacques,
and other character parts in the country; went to Canada with
a company of his own 1852; lessee of the royal Lyceum theatre,
Toronto 1852–8; stage manager at Pike’s opera house Cincinnati
to death. _d._ suddenly in a drug store at Cincinnati 9 Feb.
1864. _H. P. Phelps’s Players of a century_, _Albany_ (1880)
149, 204, 206, 241, 257, 259.

NICKLE, SIR ROBERT (son of Robert Nicholl of the 17 dragoons,
who changed his name to Nickle). _b._ at sea 12 Aug. 1786;
ensign loyal Durham fencibles 16 Dec. 1798; ensign 60 foot 22
Jany. 1801; ensign 15 foot 19 May 1801, lieut. 26 Jany. 1802;
lieut. 8 garrison brigade 1803; lieut. 88 foot 4 Aug. 1804,
major 28 Nov. 1822; led the forlorn hope at Buenos Ayres 7 July
1807, when severely wounded; served through the Peninsular war,
present at 9 battles, severely wounded at Toulouse; served in
the American war 1814; lieut. col. 36 foot 15 June 1830 to 22
Aug. 1834; acting governor of St. Christopher 14 July 1832 to
March 1833; served in Canadian rebellion 1838, when he raised
several volunteer forces; colonel on h.p. 29 Aug. 1843; M.G.
11 Nov. 1851; commanded the forces in Australia 1853 to death;
K.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. _d._
Jolimont, Melbourne 26 May 1855.

NICOL, EMMA (eld. dau. of Mrs. Nicol, actress, who _d._ about
1834). _b._ 1801; appeared at Edinburgh as a dancer 2 May 1808;
played at the Royal or Minor theatre, Edinb. 1808–24; played
Flora in The Wonder at Drury Lane 9 Nov. 1824, acted there till
1829, then at Surrey theatre 1830–1; played old-women parts at
T.R. Edinb. 1834–59; played Mrs. Macleary in Waverley 18 Sept.
1852, and Marjory in The heart of Midlothian 4 Oct. 1852; was
the original hon. Mrs. Falconer in Ebsworth’s comedy £150,000,
1 Sept. 1854, and Matty Hepburn in Ballantine’s Gaberlunzie Man
7 June 1858; played Mrs. Major de Boots in Coyne’s Everybody’s
Friend at New Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 25 June 1859, and Queen
Elizabeth in the burlesque of Kenilworth 6 Aug. 1859; made her
last appearance 31 May 1862 as the Hostess in The Honeymoon; her
best parts were Meg in Twas I, and Miss Lucretia Mactab in The
poor gentleman. _d._ London Nov. 1877. _J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of
the Edinburgh stage_ (1888) 361, 476.

NICOL, HENRY. Philologist; author of An account of M. Gaston
Paris’ method of editing in his Vie de Saint Alexis 1874. _d._
Algiers 30 Dec. 1880.

NICOL, JAMES (son of James Nicol, minister of Traquair,
Peebleshire, and poet 1769–1819). _b._ Traquair manse 12 Aug.
1810; entered univ. of Edinb. 1825; studied geology at univs.
of Bonn and Berlin; a clerk in Geological society of London
1840, assistant secretary to the society 1847–9; professor of
geology in Queen’s college, Cork 1849–53; professor of civil
and natural history in Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen
1853–60; professor of natural history in univ. of Aberdeen
1860–78; F.G.S. 1847; F.R.S. Edinb. 1847; the first to perceive
the true relations of the rock-masses in the Highlands of
Scotland; author of Guide to the geology of Scotland 1844;
Introductory book of the sciences 1844, 9 ed. 1872; Manual
of mineralogy 1849; Elements of mineralogy 1858, 2 ed. 1873;
The geology and survey of the North of Scotland 1866, and of
18 papers on geological subjects. _d._ London 8 April 1879.
_Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvi_ 33–6 (1880).

NICOL, JAMES DYCE (only son of W. Nicol, M.D.) _b._ Stonehaven
13 Aug. 1805; partner in firm of Nicol & Co. Bombay to 1844;
M.P. Kincardineshire 17 July 1865 to death; F.R.G.S. _d._ 13
Hyde park terrace, London 16 Nov. 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_ 503 (1872).

NICOL, JOHN. _b._ Tain, Rossshire 1846; with Strahan & Co.;
manager for Isbister & Co. London, and exercising a literary
supervision over their publications; sub-editor of Contemporary
Review; while staying at Shandon homœopathic establishment
_found drowned_ in the Gaerloch, Clyde river 11 Feb. 1891.

NICOL, WILLIAM (eld. son of James Nicol, collector of customs,
Banff, Scotland). _b._ 1790; educ. Aberdeen; served in medical
service of H.E.I.C. 1810–16; a merchant at Bombay 1816;
contested Youghal 8 Aug. 1837; M.P. Dover 1859–65. _d._ 10
Ashley place, Victoria st. Westminster 28 July 1879.

NICOLAS, JOHN TOUP (eld. child of John Harris Nicolas 1758–1844,
lieutenant in the navy). _b._ Withen, near Helston, Cornwall
22 Feb. 1788; entered navy 1799; commander of the Pilot, brig
in the Mediterranean 1810–16, where he captured or destroyed
many of the enemy’s vessels; captain 26 Aug. 1815; C.B. 4 June
1815; commanded the Egeria, frigate on the Newfoundland station
1820–2, the Hercules, 74 guns on the Lisbon station 1837–9, the
Belle-Isle in the Channel and Mediterranean 1839–41, and the
Vindictive on the East India station 1841–4; R.A. 30 Dec. 1850;
superintendent of victualling yard Plymouth 1 Sept. 1847 to 5
Feb. 1850; received cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit from King
of Naples Oct. 1815, knight commander of the order April 1816;
K.H. 1 Jany. 1834; author of An inquiry into the causes which
have led to our late naval disasters 1814; A letter to rear
admiral Du Petit Thouars on the late events at Otaheite, Papeete
1843. _d._ Plymouth 1 April 1851. _bur._ St. Martin’s ch. by
Looe 4 April. _James’s Naval history v_ 257–8, 341–2 (1859);
_Marshall’s Royal naval biog. viii_ 53; _G.M. xxxv_ 665–6 (1851).

NOTE.--His son Granville Toup Nicolas _b._ 15 Aug. 1832, entered the navy 1848, commanded the gunboat Insolent on the China station during the Tae-ping insurrection, retired as captain 15 April 1882. _d._ Edinburgh 21 April 1894.

NICOLL, DONALD. _b._ 25 April 1820; cloth manufacturer and a
tailor at 114 Regent st. London with his brother Henry John
Nicoll 1843–69, also at 22 Cornhill 1846–69, and at Liverpool
and Manchester; wholesale clothier 1869–74; parliamentary agent
1876–85; civil engineer 1885 to death; sheriff of London and
Middlesex 1849–50; contested Frome 24 Oct. 1854; M.P. Frome
1857–59; contested Frome 3 May 1859; capt. 29 North Middlesex
volunteers 1864; the pioneer of underground telegraphy
1866; took out English and foreign patents for electric and
telegraphic conductors, awarded medals at Great Exhibition 1851,
Moscow exhibition 1872, and Vienna exhibition 1873; chairman
of Poor law amendment society; president of Engineering and
sanitary association; A.I C.E. 2 Dec. 1844; author of Election,
a dramatic piece in two acts 1880; Publicity, an essay on
advertising 1878; Health and appliances 1885; Man’s revenge:
personal reminiscences with quotations from causes célèbre 1890,
with portrait; resided at 14 Buckland crescent, Fitzjohn’s
avenue, London. _d._ Folkestone 6 Sept. 1891. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. 9 Sept. _I.L.N. xxx_ 478 (1857) _portrait_; _City
Press 9 Sept. 1891 p._ 5; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
cviii_ 411–2 (1892).

NICOLL, WILLIAM. _b._ Little Tullybeltane 1817; in a situation
at Glasgow on £40 a year; a poet, his fugitive pieces are
printed in Drummond’s Perthshire. _d._ Edinburgh 1855. _bur._
North Leith churchyard. _P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire_ (1879)
333–83.

NOTE.--His brother Robert Nicoll _b._ Little Tullybeltane 7 Jany. 1814 _d._ 1837, was also a well known poet.

NICOLLS, SIR EDWARD (son of Jonathan Nicolls, surveyor of
excise, Coleraine). _b._ Coleraine 1779; 2 lieut. R.M. 24 March
1795, with 13 volunteers captured a French armed cutter off
St. Domingo 1803; at the passage of the Dardenelles 1807; at
reduction of Anholt 1809; at attack on Fort Bowyer 1814; awarded
a pension of £250 a year 28 Dec. 1815; major 8 May 1828, placed
on h.p. 1829; major retired on full pay 15 May 1835 to death;
governor of island of Ascension; commander of island of Fernando
Po; awarded good service pension of £150 a year 30 June 1842;
general 28 Nov. 1854; K.C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ 3 Woodland’s
terrace, Shooter’s hill road, Blackheath, Kent 5 Feb. 1865.
_G.M. xviii_ 644 (1865).

NOTE.--During his services abroad he had his left leg broken and right leg severely wounded, was shot through the body and right arm, received a severe sabre cut in the head, was bayoneted in the chest, and lost an eye in his 107th action, having received altogether 24 wounds.

NICOLLS, GUSTAVUS. _b._ 1780 or 1781; 2 lieut. R.E. 4 Jany.
1795, colonel 29 July 1825; colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1851
to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ at his residence, near
Southampton 1 Aug. 1860.

NICOLLS, JASPER HUME (3 son of Gustavus Nicolls of Guernsey).
Matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 2 June 1836, aged 17; B.A. 1840,
M.A. 1843, D.D. 1856; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1843–8;
principal of and professor of classics in Bishop’s college,
Lennoxville, Lower Canada 1853 to death; author of The end
and object of education, a lecture, Montreal 1857; Address to
the convocation of Bishop’s college, at its annual meeting,
Sherbrooke 1860. _d._ Aug. 1877.

NICOLSON, ALEXANDER (son of Malcolm Nicolson of Husabost in
Skye). _b._ Husabost 27 Sept. 1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb.,
B.A. 1850, hon. M.A. 1859, LL.D. 1880; one of the sub-editors
of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; editor
of Edinburgh Guardian 1855; edited the Daily Express for one
year; contributed to the Scotsman; called to Scottish bar
1860; reported law cases for the Scottish Jurist ten years,
edited it latterly; assistant comr. of education 1865 when he
produced a blue book on the Western and Northern Highlands;
sheriff substitute of Kirkcudbright 1872; comr. to inquire
into condition of the crofters 1883; sheriff substitute of
Greenock 1885–9; author of The lay of the Beanmòhr, a song of
the Sudreyar 1867; edited D. Macintosh’s A collection of Gaelic
proverbs 1881, 2 ed. 1882; Memoirs of Adam Black, M.P. 1885,
2 ed. 1885; he revised the Gaelic Scriptures for the soc. for
Promoting Christian Knowledge. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1893.
_bur._ Warriston cemet. _Verses by A. Nicolson with memoir by W.
Smith_ (1893) _portrait_; _Scottish law review ix_ 38–40; _D. H.
Edwards’s Modern Scottish poets_, _3rd series_ (1880) 417–9.

NICOLSON, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeenshire; Scott bursar of univ.
of Aberdeen; M.A. 1856; Luscombe scholar of Trinity coll.
Glenalmond Sept. 1854; chaplain to bishop Forbes of Brechin
1856–75; incumbent of St. Salvador, Dundee 1857 to death,
raised funds and built a church which cost £10,000, 1868–74,
the congregation being mostly working men; synod clerk diocese
of Brechin 1863–74; dean of Brechin 1874 to death; a member of
the school board; built a chapel and schoolroom dedicated to
St; Martin at Dundee; author of In memoriam, a sermon after the
funeral of A. P. Forbes, bishop of Brechin 1875. _d._ Dundee
25 Jany. 1889. _Church portrait journal n.s. vi_ 77 (1885)
_portrait_.

NIEMANN, EDMUND JOHN (eld. son of John Diederich Niemann, _b._
Minden, Westphalia, a member of Lloyd’s). _b._ Islington, London
1813; a clerk in Lloyd’s 1826–39; lived at High Wycombe, Bucks.
1839–48; trustee and hon. secretary of the Free Exhibition
of art, Chinese gallery, Hyde Park corner 1848; exhibited 29
landscape paintings at R.A., 45 at B.I., and 40 at Suffolk st.
1844–72; many of his pictures were exhibited at opening of
the Nottingham museum and art galleries 1878. _d._ The Glebe,
Brixton hill, Surrey 15 April 1876. _G. H. Shepherd’s Catalogue
of the pictures painted by E. J. Niemann_ (1890).

NIEUWENHUYS, CHRISTIAN JOHANNES. _b._ Belgium 1799; an art
critic 1834; formed gallery of king of Holland 1843; naturalised
in England 6 March 1846; an expert and dealer in London to
death; brought many important examples of Dutch and Flemish
paintings to England, which have enriched some of the best
collections; author of A review of the lives and works of some
of the most eminent painters 1834; Description de la galerie
des tableaux de S. M. le roi des Pays-Bas, Bruxelles 1843. _d._
Oxford lodge, Park Side, Wimbledon, Surrey 31 Jany. 1883. _Times
20 Feb. 1883 p._ 10.

NIGHTINGALE, JAMES EDWARD. F.S.A. 18 Feb. 1875; discovered
the lost china factory of Longton hall; author of Objects of
interest in the Fonthill excursion 1870; Some notice of William
Herbert, first earl of Pembroke 1878; Contributions towards
the history of early English porcelain 1881; Church plate of
the county of Dorset 1889; The church plate of the county of
Wilts 1891; resided at The Mount, Witton, Salisbury. _d._ at
the residence of his brother-in-law 16 Alfred place west, South
Kensington, London 22 Feb. 1892. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries
xiv_ 136 (1892).

NIGHTINGALE, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1827; dramatist; resided at
Liverpool; published The Liverpool year book, edited by Lee and
Nightingale 1857; Lee and Nightingale’s Telegraph guide 1858,
Number i. _d._ 13 Coverdale road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 20
Jany. 1882. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 24 Jany.

NIGHTINGALE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1799; acted as a judge of coursing
in England and Scotland during many years; judged the first
Waterloo cup 1857; retired 1860, when he was presented with a
testimonial; a very powerful man, could lift any weight, and
hold any team of horses together on the box seat; could jump the
Big Cut from the Engine at Aintree; a farmer at Skibeden, near
Skipton and a good judge of bullocks and sheep. _d._ 2 Sept.
1869, at his request a representation of a greyhound was placed
on his coffin and buried with him in Gisburn ch. yard. _Sporting
Review Oct. 1869 pp._ 242–3; _H. H. Dixon’s Field and Fern,
South_ 1865 _pp._ 14, 19, 24–6, _portrait_.

NIGHTINGALL, JOHN (son of a trainer, _d._ 1890). _b._ 1833;
apprenticed to be a jockey; with Cecil won the Cesarewitch
1868; best known as a trainer, especially of horses for the
suburban meetings; trained Shifnel, winner of the Grand
National steeple chase 1878, and Ilex, winner in 1890; trained
for lord Calthorpe, lord Rendlesham, sir Simon Lockhart, and
G. Masterman. _d._ Epsom 13 Nov. 1891. _Baily’s Mag. lvi_
425 (1891); _Illust. sp. and dr. news 21 Nov. 1891 p._ 331
_portrait_; _Man of the world 25 Nov. 1891 p._ 564 _portrait_.

NIHILL, DANIELL. _b._ 1791; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1818; M.A. 1822; P.C. of Clunbury, Salop 1820–6; government
chaplain to penitentiary, Milbank, London to 1844; P.C. of
Fording, Montgomeryshire 29 Dec. 1826–44; V. of Bridgwater,
Somerset 1844–8; R. of Fitz, near Shrewsbury 1848 to death;
author of Suggestions on the revival of ecclesiastical
assemblies in the church of England 1834, 2 ed. 1836; Prison
discipline 1839; Farmer’s guide to happiness; Inconsistency, or
why are churchgoers not communicants 1859; Pastoral guide to
confirmation; The angels, what is taught in scripture concerning
them 1852; Help to young scholars in the bible; Suggestions on
the reformation of convicts. _d._ Fitz rectory 19 July 1867.

NIMMO, ANDREW. _b._ Edinburgh 1817 or 1818; call boy at
Edinburgh theatre, afterwards actor; assistant to John Mitchell
of Bond st. London, theatrical agent to 1863; theatrical agent
at 55 Wigmore st. Cavendish sq. 1863 to death. _d._ 55 Wigmore
st. Cavendish sq. London 23 June 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 28
June. _Era 30 June 1872 p._ 9.

NIMMO, PATRICK. _b._ Dundee; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1817; served in
the East Lothian cavalry some years; practiced as a physician
at Dundee, first in partnership with Robert Stewart, M.D., then
with Alexander Douglass, afterward alone; surgeon to Dundee
royal infirmary about 1805–35; physician to Dundee lunatic
asylum about 1835 to death. _d._ Dundee 11 July 1855.

NIMMO, WILLIAM PHILIP. _b._ Edinburgh 1831; a bookseller there
Dec. 1855; a publisher there to his death; published Nimmo’s
Juvenile tales, Edinb. 1866; Nimmo’s Popular tales 1866. _d._
Minto st. Edinb. 16 April 1883.

NISBET, SIR ALEXANDER (son of Alexander Nisbet). _b._ 1790 or
1791; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1812; M.D. Edinb. 1818; M.R.C.P. London
1859; entered naval medical service 1812 and served during the
whole of the American war 1812–4, for which awarded a medal
1850; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855,
retired 1861; granted good service pension June 1865; knighted
at Windsor Castle 26 June 1873; honorary physician to the queen
1873 to death. _d._ Arley lodge, Lee, Kent 22 June 1874.

NISBET, HENRY. _b._ Laurieston, Glasgow 1818; studied at Glasgow
univ., relief divinity hall, Paisley, and Cheshunt college;
ordained united presbyterian minister July 1840; missionary
at Falelatai, Samoa 1843, at Sapapalii 1850–4; in charge of
the mission seminary at Malua Dec. 1859–67, where he prepared
various lectures, sermons, notes of scripture, &c. which he
subsequently printed in England; D.D. Glasgow univ. 1870. _d._
Malua 9 May 1876. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries_
(1870) 149–51.

NISBET, JAMES (son of a farmer, who became a serjeant of
cavalry). _b._ Kelso 3 Feb. 1785; clerk to Hugh Usher, West
India merchant, London 1803; a Sunday school teacher at the
Scotch ch., Swallow st., London 1803; a founder of the Sunday
school union 1803; collected for more than 500 charitable
institutions, the amount that passed through his hands being
£114,339 16s. 4d.; a freeman of city of London; bookseller in
Castle st. 1809; bookseller and publisher, chiefly of books of
a religious class at 21 Berners st. Oxford st.; partner with
James Murray many years, on Murray’s death (at Richmond June
1862), Mr. Watson became manager of the business; publisher
of some of Edward Irving’s books, and for a period one of his
followers; liveryman of company of stationers 1822; helped to
establish Booksellers’ provident institution 1837, president
1848; printed and distributed some religious work gratuitously;
built and endowed a church and school at Kelso; published
Catalogue of J. Nisbet’s Select theological circulating library
1832; Nisbet’s Series of tracts 1846–50, No. 1–22. _d._ 21
Berners st. London 8 Nov. 1854. _J. A. Wallace’s Lessons from
life of J. Nisbet_ (1867); _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 324–32;
_The first 50 years of the Sunday school by W. H. Watson_ (1873)
75–76.

NISBET, ROBERT PARRY. _b._ Aug. 1793; ed. at Cheam and
Haileybury coll.; entered Bengal civil service 30 April
1809; second assistant to collector of customs, Calcutta
1814; collector of Rungpore 1822; judge and magistrate 1826;
commissioner of revenue 14th division 1829; civil and session
judge, Nuddea 1837; sheriff of Wilts. 1849; M.P. Chippenham
1856–59. _d._ Southbroome house, Devizes 31 May 1882.

NISBET-HAMILTON, ROBERT ADAM (eld. son of Philip Dundas,
governor of Prince of Wales island, _d._ 8 April 1807). _b._
9 Feb. 1804; educ. St. Andrews; advocate 25 Feb. 1826; M.P.
Ipswich 1826–30, and 1835–7; M.P. Edinburgh 1831–2; M.P. North
Lincs. 1837–57; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 1 March to Dec.
1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; exchanged name of Dundas for that of
Christopher by R.L. 20 Jany. 1836, and that of Christopher for
Nisbet-Hamilton 1855; F.R.S. 18 April 1833; succeeded to estates
in Haddingtonshire through his wife lady Mary Bruce, eld. dau.
of 7 earl of Elgin. _d._ 33 Chesham place, Belgrave sq. London 9
June 1877. _Journal of jurisprudence xxi_ 401 (1877).

NISH, ANTONY. _b._ Newcastle Feb. 1831; visited the United
States 1850; joined company of John Raynor, who brought a troupe
of Christy minstrels to England 1855; organised a company of
his own 1862; visited the Cape colonies, India, and Australia;
musical director of the Christy minstrels, St. James’s hall,
London 1867 to death; composed the music of many popular songs.
_d._ London 3 Oct. 1874. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 6 Oct. _Era 11
Oct. 1874 p._ 9.

NIXON, FRANCIS RUSSELL (son of Robert Nixon, C. of Foot’s Cray,
Kent 1784–1804). _b._ 1 Aug. 1803; educ. Merchant Taylors’
school 1810–22, and St. John’s coll. Oxf., probationary fellow
1822; B.A. 1827, M.A, 1841, D.D. 1842; P.C. of Plaistow, Essex;
chaplain to British embassy at Naples 1833–5; P.C. of Sandgate,
Kent 20 Jany. 1836; V. of Ash, next Wingham Nov. 1838; one of
the six preachers in Canterbury cathedral; bishop of Tasmania
21 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1863, consecrated in Westminster abbey
24 Aug. 1842, enthroned in Hobart cath. 27 July 1843; attended
the first synod of colonial bishops held in Sydney 1857; R.
of Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 1864–5; author of The history of
Merchant Taylors’ school 1823; Lectures on the catechism of the
church of England 1843; The cruise of the Beacon, a visit to
the islands in Bass’s Straits 1857. _d._ Villa Vignole, Lago
Maggiore, North Italy 7 April 1879. _Times 12 April 1879 p._ 7.

NIXON, SAMUEL. _b._ 1803; began exhibiting sculpture at the
R.A. 1826; employed on portrait and sepulchral sculpture for
a few years from 1831; did the sculptural decorations for the
Goldsmith’s hall in Foster lane, Cheapside, London; executed
a statue of John Carpenter for the city of London school, and
one of sir John Crosby for Crosby hall, Bishopsgate street; his
chief work was the statue of Wm. IV at the end of King William
st. set up Dec. 1844; exhibited 12 works at R.A., 2 at B.I.,
and 2 at Suffolk st. 1826–46. _d._ 1 Manley place, Kennington
Common, London 2 Aug. 1854.

NIXON, THOMAS. _b._ Nottingham 4 June 1815; lace maker; his
first cricket match at Lord’s was Fast bowlers _v._ Slow bowlers
18 July 1842; a slow round-armed bowler having a twist; a
bowler at Lord’s 1851–7; proprietor of Old white house inn,
cricket ground and racquet court, Oxford 1856–60; introduced
cork pads 1841, open pads and cane handled bats 1853; invented
the balista 1862; formed a cricket ground at Chelford, Cheshire
1861, where he worked to his death. _d._ Chelford 20 July 1877.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii_ 103 (1863).

NOAD, HENRY MINCHIN (son of Humphrey Noad). _b._ Shawford, near
Frome, Somerset 22 June 1815; educ. Frome gr. sch.; lectured
on chemistry and electricity at Bath and Bristol 1836; studied
chemistry under A. W. Hofmann in the royal college of chemistry,
London 1845; professor of chemistry at St. George’s hospital
1847 to death; Ph. Doc. Giessen about 1849; consulting chemist
to the Ebbw Vale iron co., the Cwn Celyn, and Blaina and other
iron works in South Wales; instructor in chemistry at the
Panopticon in Leicester sq. London 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856;
author of A course of eight lectures on electricity, galvanism,
magnetism, and electro-magnetism 1839, 3 ed. 1849; A manual of
electricity, 2 vols. 1857; The improved induction coil 1861, 3
ed, 1868; The students text-book of electricity 1867, new ed.
1879. _d._ at residence of his son Henry Carden Noad, surgeon,
High st. Lower Norwood, Surrey 23 July 1877. _Engineer 3 Aug.
1877 pp._ 70, 76–7.

NOAKE, JOHN (son of Thomas Noake). _b._ Sherborne, Dorset 29
Nov. 1816; engaged on Berrow’s Worcester Journal at Worcester
1838, then on the Worcestershire Chronicle; sub-editor of
the Worcester Herald to about 1874; sheriff of Worcester
1878, alderman and mayor 1879; magistrate 1882; one of
hon. secretaries of Worcester Diocesan architectural and
archæological society many years, presented with a testimonial
on his retirement July 1892; author of The rambler in
Worcestershire, notes on churches and congregations 1851–4, 2
vols.; Worcester in olden times 1849; Notes and queries for
Worcestershire 1856; Worcester sects, a history of its Roman
catholics and dissenters 1861; The monastery and cathedral
of Worcester 1866; Noake’s guide to Worcestershire 1868;
Worcestershire relics 1877; Worcestershire nuggets, by an Old
Digger 1889. _d._ 2 St. Mary’s terrace, London road, Worcester
12 Sept. 1894. _bur._ Astwood road cemet. 15 Sept. _Berrow’s
Worcester Journal 15 Sept. 1894._

NOAKES, WILLIAM. Landlord of the new Opera hotel, 27 Bow st.
Covent Garden, London 1852–73, celebrated for its suppers after
the theatres, this hotel was formerly known as the Garrick’s
Head, the last night of its being open was 8 Nov. 1873; Noakes
greatly resembled Edward Wright the comedian of the Adelphi
theatre. _E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii_ 433 (1891).

NOBBS, GEORGE HUNN (son of a marquess by the dau. of an Irish
baronet). _b._ 16 Oct. 1799; served in royal navy Nov. 1811
to 1816; served on board an 18-gun ship belonging to the
patriots in South America 1816, captured by the Spaniards
and imprisoned at Callao 1817; made a lieutenant in Chilian
navy 1820 for helping to cut out Spanish frigate Esmeralda at
Callao 5 Nov. 1820; settled on Pitcairn Island 5 Nov. 1828,
succeeded John Adams as pastor and teacher of the islanders 29
March 1829; ordained priest by bishop of London and appointed
a missionary of the Society for the propagation of the gospel
Oct. and Nov, 1852; relanded on Pitcairn Island 14 May 1853;
the islanders under Nobbs removed to Norfolk Island 8 June
1856, where they were given a model constitution by sir W. T.
Denison, governor-general of the Australian colonies. _d._
The Chaplaincy, Norfolk Island 5 Nov. 1884. _A sermon in St.
Mary’s chapel, Park st. Grosvenor square on 12 Dec. 1852 by
G. H. Nobbs, with notices of Mr. Nobbs and his flock_ (1852)
_portrait_; _Lady Belcher’s Mutineers of the Bounty_ (1870) 186
_et seq._ _portrait_.

NOBLE, JAMES (2 son of Isaac Noble, who served in the British
army against the Americans, _killed_ 1778). _b._ 1774; entered
navy 1787; lieut. of the Agamemnon under Nelson 9 March 1796,
badly wounded at Loano 25 April 1796; Nelson’s flag-lieutenant
on board the Captain at battle of St. Vincent, during the battle
he boarded the San Nicolas for which he was made commander 27
Feb. 1797; commanded the sea fencibles on the coast of Sussex
March 1798 to 29 April 1802; captain 29 April 1802; retired
R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, moved to the active list 17 Aug. 1840, V.A.
9 Nov. 1846. _d._ London 24 Oct. 1851. _Autobiography of James
Noble, privately printed about 1830._