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).

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.

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).

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.

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).