Modern English biography

Cricket Scores ii_ 200–1 (1862); _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_ (1893) 28–32, 203, 3 _portraits_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 29 _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_ (1862) 137 _portrait_. MYNN, WALTER PARKER (brother of preceding). _b._ 24 Nov. 1805; member of the Kent eleven, a steady bat, generally going in first; played at Lord’s first time in Sixteen gentlemen _v._ Eleven players 8 July 1833; long stop to his younger brother, A. Mynn’s tremendous bowling, and was much hurt about his hands in consequence; height upwards of six feet. _d._ 19 South Grove, Peckham, London 17 Oct. 1878. _bur._ Forest Hill. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 221 (1862). MYTTON, RICHARD HERBERT (only son of rev. Richard Mytton of Garth, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, _d._ 21 Feb. 1828). _b._ 2 Dec. 1808; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; judge of the Sudder, or high court of appeal at Calcutta, retired 1853; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1856; chairman of quarter sessions. _d._ Garth 12 May 1869. N NADEN, CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL (only child of Thomas Naden, architect). _b._ 15 Francis road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 24 Jany. 1858; lived with Mrs. Woodhill at Edgbaston till 1 June 1887, from whom she inherited a handsome fortune; a disciple of Robert Lewins, M.D. from 1876, the doctrine he taught is called hylo-idealism, and is monistic positivism; studied physics, chemistry, botany, flower painting, German, French, Latin, and Greek under private tutors, and at the Midland institute, and at Mason’s coll. Birmingham 1879–1887; lectured at Mason’s coll. 1889; edited the Mason college magazine; a member of the Aristotelian society; travelled in the East 1887–8; purchased 114 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London Nov. 1888; endeavoured to form a Spencer society 1819; wrote scientific papers with the signatures of C. N., Constance Arden, and C. A.; author of Songs and sonnets of spring time 1881; A modern apostle, the elixir of life, and other poems 1887; Further reliques of C. Naden, ed. by George M. McCrie 1891; Selections from the works of C. C. W. Naden 1893. _d._ from an internal complaint 114 Park st. London 23 Dec. 1889. _bur._ in Old cemet. Warstone lane, Birmingham; Dr. Lewin founded a Naden gold medal at Mason college, and gave her bust in marble to the library 1890. _Induction and deduction by C. C. W. Naden_ (1890) _memoir pp. vii–xvii portrait_; _W. R. Hughes’ C. Naden_ (1890) _portrait_; _Mason coll. mag. Feb. 1890 pp._ 47–55; _Midland Institute mag. Feb. 1890 p._ 223, _March p._ 240; _Edgbastonia Feb. 1890 pp._ 17–23 _portrait_; _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century_, _viii_ 571–8 (1893); _E. C. Brewer’s Constance Naden and hydro-idealism_ (1891); _Contemporary review April 1891 pp._ 508–22; _The Speaker No. 2 Jany. 11 1890 p._ 35, _by W. E. Gladstone, where he praises her Pantheistic song of immortality_. NAFTEL, MAUD (only dau. of the succeeding). _b._ 1 June 1856; studied at Slade school of art in London, and in Paris under Carolus Duran; exhibited 8 drawings at the Dudley gallery 1877–82, and at the Dudley Gallery art soc. 2 drawings 1883–5; was noted for her paintings of flowers; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours March 1887, where she exhibited 16 drawings; exhibited 2 flower pieces at R.A. 1875–8; author of Flowers and how to paint them 1886. _d._ 76 Elm park road, Chelsea 18 Feb. 1890. _J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii_ 352, 428–9 (1891). NAFTEL, PAUL JACOB (son of Paul Naftel of Guernsey). _b._ Guernsey 10 Sept. 1817; professor of drawing at Elizabeth college, Guernsey; associate of the Old Society of Painters in water-colours 11 Feb. 1856, member 13 June 1859, exhibited 550 works; a landscape drawing-master in water-colours, London 1870 to death; resided at 4 St. Stephen’s sq. Westminster 1870–83, and then at 76 Elm park road; designed the illustrations for Ansted and Latham’s The Channel Islands 1862. _d._ 1 Walpole gardens, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 13 Sept. 1891. _J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii_ 352–4 (1891). NOTE.--His wife exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., and 9 at Suffolk st. 1857–79. NAGHTEN, ARTHUR ROBERT (son of Thomas Naghten of Crofton house, Titchfield, Hants). _b._ 23 April 1829; educ. Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1853; M.P. Winchester 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; captain Hampshire artillery 3 Aug. 1859, major 1872–5; a director of Southampton dock co. _d._ Blightmont, Southampton 7 Aug. 1881. NAGLE, JAMES. _b._ co. Cork; sessional crown prosecutor in East Riding of co. Cork 1836–53; master of the crown office in Ireland, queen’s coroner and attorney and clerk of the crown 1853 to death. _d._ 90 Pembroke road, Dublin 11 Sept. 1875. _Irish Law Times ix_ 470, 535 (1875). NAIRN, WILLIAM EDWARD (1 son of Wm. Nairn, major 46 foot). _b._ Lynecombe, Somerset 1812; matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 21 Jany. 1830; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1830–4; B.A. 1833; went with sir John Franklin to Van Diemen’s Land 1837; secretary to board of education 1839; clerk to the executive and legislative councils 1841; assistant colonial secretary 1842; deputy controller general of convicts 1843, controller general 1855; sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land 1855; member for Meander of legislative council 1856–69; president of the council Sept. 1859 to Aug. 1868. _d._ Hobart Town 9 July 1869. NAIRNE, CHARLES MURRAY. _b._ Perth 15 April 1808; graduated at Univ. of St. Andrews 1830, and afterwards at Edinburgh; assistant to Dr. Thomas Chalmers at Glasgow; taught at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, New York 1847; established a private school in New York; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and literature in Columbia college 1857–81, emeritus professor 1881 to death; received degree of L.H.D. from the regents of New York 1865; author of Two lectures of the annual psychological course in Columbia college, New York 1866, and of many pamphlets. _d._ Warrenton, Virginia 28 May 1882. NAIRNE, ROBERT. Educ. Edinb. and at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1832, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838; physician to St. George’s hospital 1839, then senior physician and lecturer on medicine; a comr. in lunacy April 1857 to July 1883, hon. comr. 1883 to death. _d._ Mossley, Beckenham 5 Nov. 1886. _The Lancet 13 Nov. 1886 p._ 955, _20 Nov. p._ 1005. NAISH, JOHN (2 son of Carrol Naish of Ballycullen, co. Limerick). _b._ 1841; ed. at Jesuit school of Clongowes Wood in Kildare, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar in science 1861, B.A. 1863; won the studentship given by inns of court, London; called to Irish bar 1865; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880; bencher of King’s Inns 1883; law adviser to Dublin castle 1880–3; solicitor general for Ireland 9 Jany. 1883, attorney general 19 Dec. 1884 to 21 May 1885; contested Mallow 25 June 1883; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1885; lord chancellor of Ireland 21 May to 1 July 1885, being the second Roman Catholic chancellor since the reformation; lord justice of appeal Aug. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and June 1886 to death; lord chancellor again Feb. to July 1886. _d._ Ems 17 Aug.