Chapter LIII: Part 53

NOBLE, JOHN. _b._ Boston, Lincs. 2 May 1827; supported the
Anti-Corn law league 17 years; came to London 1859 and entered
for the bar; a founder of the Alliance national land and
building society; founded with Washington Wilks, and others the
London political union for the advocacy of manhood suffrage
1860; financial and parliamentary agent with C. F. Macdonald
1864, they promoted street railways in London, Liverpool, and
Dublin, the firm being J. Noble and Co. 1865; a founder of
the Financial reform union 1868; parliamentary secretary to
A. Brogden, M.P. for Wednesbury 1870; secretary of the County
council union 1889; lecturer to the Financial reform association
1862–5; delivered lectures on political and social subjects;
author of Arbitration and a congress of nations as a substitute
for war in the settlement of international disputes 1862; Fiscal
legislation 1842–65, 1867; Free trade, reciprocity, and the
revivers 1869; Our imports and exports 1870. _d._ London 17
Jany. 1892. _bur._ Highgate 21 Jany. _John Noble’s Facts for
politicians_ (1892), _memoir pp. iii–viii portrait_.

NOBLE, JOSEPH WILLIAM (eld. son of John Noble, V.
of Frisby-on-the-Wreake, Leics. _d._ 1840). _b._
Frisby-on-the-Wreake, 1799; L.S.A. 1819; M.R.C.S. 1820; M.B.
Cambridge 1831; physician to Leicester general infirmary to
1856; mayor of Leicester 1858; M.P. Leicester 2 May 1859 to
death. _d._ Malaga, Spain 6 Jany. 1861.

NOBLE, MATTHEW. _b._ Hackness, Yorkshire 1818; pupil in London
of John Francis, the sculptor; exhibited 100 works, chiefly
busts, at the R.A. 1845–76; executed a relievo in bronze The
bridge of sighs, and another of The dream of Eugene Aram for
the monument over Thomas Hood’s grave 1854; executed the
Wellington monument at Manchester 1856, and a marble statue of
the Prince consort nine feet high, forming part of the Albert
memorial in Albert sq. Manchester 1866; executed the statues
of sir John Franklin in Waterloo place 1866, sir James Outram
on the Victoria embankment, London, unveiled 17 Aug. 1871, of
the Queen at St. Thomas’s hospital, and of the earl of Derby
in Parliament sq. 1874. _d._ 43 Abingdon villas, Kensington 23
June 1876. _bur._ Brompton cemet. his widow Frances Mary Noble
granted civil list pension of £150, 10 March 1877. _W. Smith’s
Old Yorkshire ii_ 82–3 (1890) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 37, 38,
178, (1876) _portrait_; _Graphic xiv_ 12 (1876) _portrait_.

NOBLE, ROBERT TURLINGTON (brother of J. W. Noble, _bapt._ Frisby
9 March 1809; educ. Oakham gr. sch. 1822–7; entered Sidney
Sussex coll. Camb. Oct. 1827; B.A. 1834; migrated to Christ’s
coll.; private tutor to sir Thomas Blomfield’s sons 1831–8;
C. of Old Dalby, Leics. 1839–41; missionary at Masulipatam,
Madras 1841 to death, where he opened a native English school
for education of the upper classes 21 Nov. 1843, which was very
successful. _d._ Masulipatam 17 Oct. 1865. _J. Noble’s Memoir of
R. T. Noble_ (1867); _J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has
known_ (1874) 332–6.

NOBLE, SAMUEL (son of Edward Noble, bookseller, _d._ 1784). _b._
London 4 March 1779; apprenticed to an engraver and practised as
an architectural engraver, retired from practice 1819; became
a Swedenborgian about 1799, helped to found the Society for
printing and publishing the writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg
1810; chief editor of and principal writer in The intellectual
repository and new Jerusalem magazine 1812–40; ordained on
Whitsunday 1820; minister of the Swedenborg church in Lisle st.
Leicester square, the congregation purchased Edward Irving’s
chapel 15 Cross st. Hatton Garden about 1829, where he preached
to his death; lost his eye sight 1848; held that our Lord’s body
was not resuscitated but dissipated in the grave and replaced at
the resurrection by a new and divine frame, a great controversy
arose between the dissipationists and resuscitationists, and a
Noble Society was formed to support his position; author of The
doctrine of the scriptures respecting the divine Trinity 1821;
The plenary inspiration of the scriptures asserted 1825, 2 ed.
1856; An appeal on behalf of the views of the eternal world
and state held by the christians who believe that a new church
is signified by the New Jerusalem 1826, 3 ed. 1855; Important
doctrines of true christian religion explained 1846; The divine
law of the ten commandments explained 1848; Book of Judges,
sermons in explanation of first eleven chapters 1856; Eight
parables explained in twenty three sermons 1857. _d._ London
27 Aug. 1853. _bur._ Highgate cemet. where is monument. _S.
Noble’s An appeal_, _3 ed._ (1855), _memoir pp. v–xviii_; _W.
White’s Life of E. Swedenborg_ (1867) _i_ 230, _ii_ 613; _F. T.
Cansick’s Epitaphs_ (1872) 180–1.

NOBLE, WILLIAM BLACKMORE. _b._ June 1789; entered R.N. 18 Aug.
1803 as a volunteer; wrecked off Malta 10 Aug. 1810; mate of the
Lively and Bellona at the surrender of Vigo; saw boat service
on north coast of Spain and in the Basque Roads for which he
received a medal; present at surrender of Sebastian, medal;
commanded party placing scaling ladders at storming of Fort Erie
1814; lieut. of the Charwell schooner 27 Aug. 1814; on h.p. from
Sept. 1815; commander 18 June 1869. _d._ 16 March 1889, aged
nearly 100. _Memoirs of Capt. George M’Kinley._

NOBLE, WILLIAM HENRY (eld. son of Robert Noble, R. of Athboy,
co. Meath). _b._ Laniskea, co. Fermanagh 14 Oct. 1834; educ.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; lieut. R.A. 6
March 1856, lieut. col. 1 Nov. 1882, placed on h.p. 1 July
1885; temporary M.G. 13 Oct. 1889; associate member of the
ordnance select committee for carrying out ballistic and other
experiments in scientific gunnery 1861–8; on the staff of the
director-general of ordnance 1868, member of experimental branch
of that department at Woolwich 8 Dec 1868 to 1 April 1876;
staff officer of the field train of the Candahar field force in
the Afghan war Nov. 1878; member of the ordnance committee 1
April 1881 to 31 March 1884; superintendent of royal gunpowder
factory at Waltham abbey 1 July 1885 to death; large quantities
of prismatic gunpowder were manufactured there, he patented
this discovery 1886; the discovery of cordite is also largely
due to him; author of Useful tables, compiled for the use of
artillerymen 1874; Report of various experiments relative to the
penetration of iron armour-plates by steel shot 1886; Descent of
W. H. Noble from the blood royal of England 1889. _d._ Thrift
hall, Waltham abbey 17 May 1892. _I.L.N. 28 May 1892 p._ 651
_portrait_; _Daily Graphic 23 May 1892 p._ 4 _portrait_.

NODDALL, CORNELIUS THOMAS AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1812 or 1813; master
attendant royal Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1 April 1858
to 1 Dec. 1864; master attendant and harbour master Deptford
dockyard 1 Dec. 1864 to 14 Oct. 1867; commander 22 Feb. 1860;
retired captain 14 Oct. 1867; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ St.
Bernards, Torquay 22 June 1874.

NOEL, BAPTIST WRIOTHESLEY (youngest child of sir Gerard
Noel-Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838). _b._ Leightmount, Scotland 16
July 1798; educ. Westminster 1810–3, and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A.
1821; C. of Cossington, Leics.; minister of St. John’s chapel,
Bedford row, London 1827 to 3 Dec. 1848; his anti-corn law tract
A plea for the poor 1841 produced many replies; chaplain in
ordinary to the queen Aug. 1841–9; a founder of the Evangelical
Alliance 1846; preached at the Scottish church in Regent sq.
London 25 March 1849; took the oaths prescribed by 52 Geo. III,
cap. 155, and preached in the Weigh House chapel May 1849;
publicly rebaptised by immersion in the Baptist chapel, John
st. Bedford row 9 Aug. 1849, minister of the chapel 9 Aug. 1849
to 15 July 1868, when he was presented with a purse containing
one thousand guineas; president of the Baptist Union 1855 and
1867; author of Meditations on sickness and old age 1837; Notes
of a tour through the Midland counties of Ireland 1837; The
first five centuries of the church 1839; A plea for the poor,
showing how the repeal of the corn laws will affect the working
classes 1841, 29th thousand 1841; Christian missions to heathen
nations 1842; Sermons, 2 vols. 1859, and upwards of 50 other
works. _d._ Stanmore, Middlesex 19 Jany. 1873. _J. R. Dix’s
Pulpit portraits_ (_Boston_ 1854) 245–56; _J. E. Ritchie’s The
London pulpit_, _2 ed._ (1858) 147–54; _Pen and ink sketches_,
_2 ed._ (1847) 240–4; _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages_, _4th series_, (1860) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xv_ 141
(1849) _portrait_, _lxii_ 91, 104, 106 (1873) _portrait_;
_Graphic vii_ 99, 100 (1873) _portrait_.

NOEL, GERARD THOMAS (brother of preceding). _b._ 2 Dec. 1782;
educ. Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; C. of
Radwell, Herts.; C. of Rainham, Essex; hon. canon of Winchester
13 March 1834 to death; V. of Romsey, Hants. 30 Nov. 1840
to death, restored the parish church; author of A selection
of psalms and hymns from the new version 1820; Arvendel, or
sketches in Italy and Switzerland 1826; Sermons for the use of
families 1826, 1827, 2 vols.; A brief inquiry into the prospects
of the church of Christ 1828; Sermons preached at Romsey 1853.
_d._ Romsey vicarage 24 Feb. 1851.

NOEL, RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY (4 son of 1 earl of
Gainsborough 1781–1866). _b._ 27 Aug. 1834; educ. Harrow and
Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1858; travelled in the East 1858–60; a
member of the English Alpine club; a groom of the privy chamber
to the queen 1867–71; author of Behind the veil and other poems
1863; Beatrice and other poems 1868; The red flag and other
poems 1872; Livingstone in Africa, a poem 1874; The house of
Ravensbury, a drama 1877; A little child’s monument 1881, an
account of his own son Eric; A philosophy of immortality 1882;
Songs of the heights and deeps 1885; Essays on poetry and poets
1886; A modern Faust and other poems 1888; Life of Lord Byron
1890, in the Great Writer’s series; Poor people’s Christmas, a
poem 1890; edited A selection from the poems of Edmund Spenser
1887; Thomas Otway 1888 in the Mermaid series. _d._ in a cab
on his way to the hotel at Mainz on the Rhine 26 May 1894. _A.
H. Miles’s Poets of the nineteenth century vi_ 81–146 (1893);
_Academy 2 June 1894 p._ 456; _Westminster Budget 6 June 1894
p._ 31 _portrait_.

NOEL, THOMAS (eld. son of rev. Thomas Noel, R. of
Kirkby-Mallory, Leics.) _b._ Kirkby-Mallory 11 May 1799;
educ. Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824; lived at Boyne hill, near
Maidenhead many years; corresponded with Miss M. R. Mitford, who
in her recollections of a literary life, i 51–5 (1852) quotes at
full length his poems The pauper’s drive and A Thames voyage;
author of The cottage muse 1833; Village verse 1841; Rymes and
roundelays 1841, which includes The pauper’s drive, set to music
by Henry Russell 1839; wrote the words of the well-known song
Rocked in the cradle of the deep. _d._ Brighton 16 May 1861.
_James Payn’s Literary Recollections_ (1884) 87–92.

NOEL, WRIOTHESLY BAPTIST (eld. son of B. W. Noel 1798–1873).
_b._ Thorpe hall, Walthamstow, Essex 15 Aug. 1827; educ. Trin.
coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1850; landed in Melbourne
Nov. 1852; barrister in Victoria 21 Sept. 1854; police
magistrate for county of Bourke at Melbourne 8 Jany. 1855;
deputy chairman of general sessions July 1857; chief comr. of
insolvent estates 28 March 1859; judge of insolvent court for
Melbourne 1 Feb. 1871 to death. _d._ Denby road, Brighton,
Melbourne 19 May 1886. _Law Journal 24 July 1886 pp._ 443–4.

NOLAN, FREDERICK (3 son of Edward Nolan of St. Peter’s, Dublin).
_b._ Old Rathmines castle, co. Dublin 9 Feb. 1784; entered
Trin. coll. Dublin 1796; matric. as a gentleman commoner of
Exeter coll. Oxf. 19 Nov. 1803; B.C.L. 1828, having passed for
the degree in 1805, D.C.L. 1828; ordained Aug. 1806; curate of
Woodford, Hackney, and St. Bennet Fink, London successively;
Boyle lecturer 1814, Bampton lecturer 1833, Warburtonian
lecturer 1833–6; V. of Prittlewell, Essex 25 Oct. 1822 to death;
F.R.S.L. 1828; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1833; author of The romantick
mythology in two parts 1809; An inquiry into the nature and
extent of poetick licence 1810, under pseudonym of Nicholas
Aylward Vigors, jun., Esq.; The operations of the Holy Ghost,
illustrated and confirmed by scriptural authorities 1813;
An inquiry into the integrity of the Greek vulgate 1815,
supplement 1830; Fragments of a civick feast: by a Reformer
1819; A harmonical grammar of the principal ancient and modern
languages, 2 parts 1822; Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister.
By Sarah Search 1855. _d._ Geraldstown house, co. Navan 16 Sept.
1864. _bur._ Navan churchyard. _G.M. Dec. 1864 p._ 788–91.

NOLAN, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1742; a tenant of the earl of
Bessborough; his portrait taken and sent to the queen 1852;
fully 6 feet in height; retained his faculties to his decease.
_d._ Knockindrane, co. Carlow 24 April 1858, aged 115 years and
9 months. _G.M. iv_ 680 (1858).

NOLAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Birmingham 1840; pugilist weighing 8 stone
10 pounds; beat Flanery 23 March 1857, Ensor 20 April 1858; and
G. Henley 10 Aug. 1858; beat John Hicks £60 a side, 45 rounds in
85 minutes near Aldershot 15 March 1859; beat Hicks again £60 a
side, 66 rounds in 2 hours and 45 minutes down the Thames 7 Feb.
1860; fought a drawn battle with Daniel Thomas for £200 a side,
20 rounds in 90 minutes near Oxford 8 April 1862; fought a drawn
battle with Richard Fellowes £25 a side, 85 minutes at Four
Ashes, Staffs. 16 Aug. 1864. _d._ at his mother’s residence, in
the house in which he was born, Birmingham 29 June 1867. _bur._
Nechell’s Green cemet. 4 July. _Illust. sporting news i_ 21, 37,
38 (1862) _portrait_, _vi_ 441 (1867) _portrait_.

NOLAN, LEWIS EDWARD (son of Babington Nolan, capt. 70 regt.,
vice-consul at Milan, _d._ 1837). _b._ about 1820; educ. Milan
military college; a cavalry officer in the Austrian service,
served in Hungary and on the Polish frontier as an officer in
an Hungarian hussar regiment; ensign 4 foot 15 March 1839;
cornet 15 hussars 23 April 1839, captain 8 March 1850, placed
on h.p. Aug. 1854; A.D.C. to sir G. F. Berkeley in Madras 1840;
extra A.D.C. to sir Henry Pottinger, governor of Madras 1840;
riding master to 15 hussars in India; the most noted horseman
of his day; spoke 5 European languages and several Indian
dialects; A.D.C. to Richard Airey, Q.M.G. in the Crimea 1854;
present at battle of the Alma; author of System of training
cavalry horses. By Kenner Garrard 1853. Cavalry, its history
and tactics 1853; The training of cavalry remount horses 1861.
_killed_ at battle of Balaklava in the Crimea 25 Oct. 1854. _G.
Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_ (1855) 40–3; _I.L.N. xxv_ 528
(1854) _portrait_, _xxviii_ 462 (1856) _view of tombstone at
Maidstone_; _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea_, _vols. ii, iii,
and v_ (1877).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NORMAN, ALEXANDER (3 son of Luke Norman of Dublin). _b._ 1810;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; called to bar
in Ireland 1833; Q.C. 26 May 1858; had a large equity practice;
resided 26 Rutland square, Dublin; while on a visit _d._ of
heart disease by the roadside at Lynton 14 Sept. 1870. _bur._
Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 22 Sept. _The North Devon Journal
22 Sept. 1870 p._ 6, _29 Sept. p._ 5; _Law Journal v_ 547–48
(1870).

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

NORMAN, GEORGE WARDE (son of George Norman 1756–1830, sheriff of
Kent 1793). _b._ Bromley common, Kent 20 Sept. 1793; educ. Eton
1805–10; in business with his father as merchants in the Norway
timber trade 1810, carried on the business alone 1824–30, when
he transferred it to Sewell & Co.; a director of Bank of England
1821–72; examined before parliamentary committees on currency
1832, 1840, and 1848; an exchequer bill comr. 1831, a public
works loan comr. 1842–76; the last surviving original member
of the Political economy club, founded 1821; a director of the
Sun Insurance office 1830–64; great friend of George Grote, who
wrote the History of Greece at his suggestion; author of Remarks
upon some prevailing errors with respect to currency and banking
1833, republished 1838; Letter to Charles Wood, esq. on money
and the means of economising the use of it 1841; An examination
of some prevailing opinions as to the pressure of taxation in
this and other countries 1850, 4 ed. 1864; Papers on various
subjects 1869; A memoir on the life of the rev. F. Beadon 1879.
_d._ 90 Common, Bromley, Kent 4 Sept. 1882. _Economist 9 Sept.
1882 p._ 1125, _30 Sept. pp._ 1209–11.

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

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

NORMANBY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS CONSTANTINE PHIPPS, 2 Marquess of
(only son of the preceding). _b._ 23 July 1819; styled viscount
Normanby 1831–8, and earl of Mulgrave 1838–63; ensign Scots
fusilier guards 9 Nov. 1838, sold out 29 Sept. 1843; major
North York regt. of militia 1846–53; M.P. Scarborough 1847–51;
contested Scarborough 19 July 1851; M.P. Scarborough 1852–7;
comptroller of the household 23 July 1851 to 27 Feb. 1852,
and treasurer 4 Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 7 Aug. 1851;
lieut. governor of Nova Scotia Jany. 1858 to May 1866; second
marquess of Normanby 28 July 1863; hon. col. Tower hamlets rifle
volunteers 23 Dec. 1863; lord in waiting to the queen 8 May to
6 July 1866, and 17 Dec. 1868 to 17 Dec. 1869; high steward of
Hull; capt. of hon. corps of gentlemen at arms 17 Dec. 1869 to
Jany. 1871; governor and commander in chief of Queensland 8
April 1871 to 1874, of New Zealand 5 Sept. 1874 to 1878, and
of Victoria 24 Feb. 1879 to April 1884; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874,
G.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; G.C.B. 9 Jany. 1885. _d._ 6 Brunswick ter.
Brighton 3 April 1890. _bur._ Lythe church, Whitby 10 April.
_Athenæum ii_ 504–6 (1877); _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers_
(1886) 261 _portrait_; _C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield
i_ 306 (1852) _portrait_; _Graphic 26 April 1890 p._ 533
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxii_ 200 (1858) _portrait_, _xlviii_ 144
(1866) _portrait_; _Governor Normanby’s visit to Gympie, with
account of the Gympie gold fields_, _Gympie_ (1873); _The visit
of his excellency the governor of the North_. _Auckland_ (1876).

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

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

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

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

NORRIS, JAMES (son of rev. Wm. Norris of Warblington, Hants.).
_b._ Warblington 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A.
1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1829, D.D. 1843; scholar of C.C. coll.
Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815, fellow 10 Oct. 1822–43, bursar 1830,
president 16 Sept. 1843 to death; the college purchased the Lee
Grange estate in Bucks. for £57,500 June 1869. _d._ 16 April
1872. _bur._ in college cloisters, where is memorial tablet.
_T. Fowler’s History of Corpus Christi college_ (1893) 75, 304,
318–9, 326.

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

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

NORRIS, JOHN THOMAS (youngest son of Edmund Norris of Sutton
Courtney). _b._ 1808; contested Abingdon 13 Dec. 1854 and
13 July 1865; M.P. Abingdon 1857–65. _d._ Sutton Courtney,
Abingdon, Berks. 15 Jany. 1870. _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 92, 94 (1858)
_portrait_, _lvi_ 131 (1870).

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

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

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

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

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

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

NORTH, JOHN. _b._ 1852; conductor of Huddersfield choral soc.,
of the Glee and madrigal soc., and of the Philharmonic soc. to
death; choirmaster Huddersfield parish church to death. _d._
Spring-bank, Fartown, Huddersfield 12 Oct. 1891.

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

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

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

NORTH, WILLIAM. _b._ Nottingham 1807; a schoolmaster Nottingham,
then inspector of corn returns; played in Nottingham _v._
Sheffield on the Forest ground, Nottingham 20–22 Aug. 1827;
author of Nottingham cricket scores 1771–1829, 1830. _d._ 6
March 1855. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 32 (1862).

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

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

NORTHAMPTON, SPENCER JOSHUA ALWYNE COMPTON, 2 Marquess of (2
son of 1 Marquess of Northampton 1760–1828). _b._ Stoke park,
Wiltshire 1 Jany. 1790; styled lord Compton 1796–1812; educ.
Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810, LL.D. 1835; capt. central regt.
Northamptonshire militia 10 Sept. 1810; styled earl Compton
1812–28; M.P. Northampton 1812–20; lived in Italy 1820–30;
succeeded as 2 marquess 24 May 1828; recorder of Northampton
1828–32; F.R.S. 27 May 1830, president 30 Nov. 1838, resigned 30
Nov. 1849; F.S.A. 10 March 1836; F.G.S., president; president of
British Association at Bristol 1836, and Swansea 1848; president
of Royal soc. of literature 26 April 1849 to death; a trustee of
the British museum 1849; D.C.L. of Oxford 24 June 1850; edited
Irene, a poem by Margaret, marchioness of Northampton 1833;
The Tribute, a collection of unpublished poems 1837; author of
Observations on the motion of sir R. Heron, M.P. respecting
vacating seats in parliament on the acceptance of office 1835.
_d._ Castle Ashby, near Northampton 17 Jany. 1851. _bur._ Castle
Ashby 25 Jany. _P. F. Robinson’s Vitruvius Britannicus_ (1847)
_part_ 3 _pp._ 1–24; _H. Drummond’s Noble British families i_
12–6 (1846); _G.M. xxxv_ 425–9 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 59, 60
(1851) _portrait_; _Athenæum 25 Jany. 1851 pp._ 110–11; _Doyle’s
Baronage ii_ 631 (1886) _portrait_; _Times 18 Jany. 1851 p._ 5,
_22 Jany. p._ 5.

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

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

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

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

NORTHEY, FRANCIS VERNON (son of E. R. Northey of Epsom). _b._
1836; educ. Eton, one of the cricket eleven 1852–4; ensign 60
foot 22 March 1855, instructor in musketry 3 Nov. 1858, major 5
July 1873 to death; commanded the third battalion in Zululand;
mortally wounded at battle of Ginghilovo 2 April 1879, and _d._
7 April 1879. _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 576 (1879) _portrait_; _Graphic
xix_ 584 (1879) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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