Modern English biography

Boustrapa, The Man of December, and The Man of Sedan. NARRIEN, JOHN (son of a stonemason). _b._ Chertsey, Surrey 1782; a very skilful optician at 70 St. James’s st. London 1811–7; taught at R.M. college at Sandhurst 1814; mathematical professor in the senior department 1820–58, presented with many testimonials, and his portrait in 1841, retired on account of failure of his sight Feb. 1858; F.R.A.S.; F.R.S. 18 June 1840: author of An historical account of the origin and progress of astronomy 1833; Elements of geometry 1842; Practical astronomy and geodesy 1845; Analytical geometry 1846; with G. Tappen, Explanatory remarks on a method of building groined arches in brickwork 1808 and 1819. _d._ 16 Clarendon road, Kensington 30 March 1860. _Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. vi_ 240 (1845), _xviii_ 100 (1858), _xxi_ 102 (1861); _G.M. Aug. 1860 pp._ 193–4; _The Linesman_, _By Elers Napier ii_ 348, 369 (1856). NASH, CHARLES. _b._ Bristol; a draper’s assistant; a commercial clerk in London; trained at the British and foreign school soc. Southwark; master of the Day ragged sch. Pye st. Westminster 1848–50; opened a reformatory institution for boys 28 St. Ann st. Westminster 1849, of which he became governor and corresponding secretary, when it was named The London colonial training institution and ragged dormitory 9 Great Smith st. Westminster; sec. to Hospital for diseases of the skin 25 New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 1853–7. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 76 (1854) _portrait_; _Samuel Marten’s A place of repentance, the London colonial training institution_ (1852) 1 _et seq._ NASH, CHARLES BARNES (son of Rowland Nash 1784–1859). _b._ 1815; extensively engaged in the affairs of public companies from 1836; honoured with a leading article in The Times 1 Nov. 1844 p. 4; strongly advocated the narrow gauge interest 1846; devoted much time and money to expositions of affairs and battles of shareholders in various courts meetings &c. to 1852; persecuted by railway officials in the law courts and house of lords; edited History of the war in Afghanistan 1843; author of Railway and land taxation 1844; Railway carrying 1846; The railway robberies 1846; Railway robberies, the summing up in Waream _v._ Prance 1847; Railways and shareholders by An Endinbro’ Reviewer 1849; Chancery time tables 1853; Appeals in criminal cases 1860; Merchant shipping laws and remedies 1860; Public companies tracts, No. 8 Railway management Hare versus the London and North Western, by A Journalist 1861; with Rowland Nash Nash’s marriage and divorce law, 2 ed. 1859. _d._ 23 Valmar road, Denmark Hill, Surrey 21 Nov. 1892. _Law Times 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 164. NASH, FREDERICK (son of a builder). _b._ Lambeth, London 28 March 1782; studied at the R.A.; architectural draftsman to society of antiquaries 1807; associate of society of painters in water-colours 1810, member 1811, seceded 1812, re-elected 1824; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. 63 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1799–1852; published a series of views of the collegiate chapel of St. George at Windsor 1805; pronounced by Turner to be the finest architectural painter of his day; resided at Brighton 1834 to death; four of his pictures are in South Kensington museum. _d._ 4 Montpellier road, Brighton 5 Dec. 1856. _Art Journal_ (1857) 61. NASH, HARRY. Printer and stationer at Bournemouth 1873; connected with the Bournemouth Observer; proprietor and manager of theatre royal, Bournemouth 1881 to death; conducted the provincial tours of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels and of Mr. George Grossmith. _d._ Bournemouth 22 Oct. 1894 aged 41. NASH, JOSEPH. Entered Bengal army 1812; ensign 7 Bengal N.I. 1 Nov. 1814 to 1816; ensign 22 N.I. 1816; lieut. 25 Dec. 1817; captain 43 N.I. 24 Jany. 1829; major 26 Sept. 1841 to 11 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. 72 N.I. 11 Nov. 1847 to 1852 of 18 N.I. 1852–5 and of 47 N.I. 1855–6; commandant at Delhi 7 Nov. 1854 to 27 Feb. 1856; col. of 46 N.I. 15 July 1857 to death; L.G. 23 March 1869; C.B. 27 June 1846. _d._ Dehra, Meerut 1 Jany. 1870. NASH, JOSEPH (son of rev. Okey Nash who kept the Manor house school at Croydon). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 17 Dec. 1809; pupil of Augustus Pugin the architect; associate of society of painters in water-colours 1834, member 1842; published Architecture of the middle ages 1838; The mansions of England in the olden time 4 series 1839–49; lithographed Sir D. Wilkie’s Sketches in Turkey 1843, Sir D. Wilkie’s Sketches in Spain 1846, and Views of Windsor Castle 1848; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1831–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1878; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; E. Macdermott’s The merrie days of England 1859; Old English ballads 1864; with L. Haghe and others painted Dickinson’s comprehensive picture of the great exhibition of 1851 executed for prince Albert 1854. _d._ Hereford road, Bayswater, London 19 Dec. 1878. _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists II_ 120–32 (1880); _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 21 (1879) _portrait_. NASH, ROWLAND (son of James Nash, architect _d._ 1842 aged 95). _b._ 1784; served in the Volunteers 1799; assistant registrar and solicitor at the bishop’s registry, diocese of Lincoln, some years; lost heavily in lottery speculations; edited the Star newspaper in London; a colonial and parliamentary agent in London; author of Nash’s Marriage and divorce law 1859. _d._ 45 Amwell st. Clerkenwell, London 10 Sept. 1859. _Law Times 1 Oct. 1859 pp._ 22–3. NASMITH, DAVID (1 son of David Nasmith of London). _b._ 1829; matric. univ. of London 1849; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1865; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1888; had an extensive practice in the common law courts; F.S.S.; hon. LL.D. of St. Andrew’s univ.; translated J. L. E. Ortolan’s The history of Roman law 1871; author of The chronometrical chart of the history of England 1863; The institutes of English public law 1873; The institutes of English private law 1875; The institutes of English adjective law 1879; Outline of history from Romulus to Justinian 1890; Makers of modern thought, 2 vols. 1892; he also published a series called The practical linguist, French and German, 7 vols. 1870–3; resided 37 Norland sq. London. _d._ Evelyn house, Herne Bay, Kent 10 July 1894. NASMYTH, CHARLES (eld. son of Robert Nasmyth, F.R.C.S Edinb.) _b._ Edinburgh Sept. 1825; ed. at Addiscombe 1843–5; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 12 Dec. 1845, 1 lieut. 4 Feb. 1850; Times correspondent in Omar Pasha’s camp at Shumla; reached Silistria 28 March 1854, before it was invested by the Russians, Nasmyth and captain J. A. Butler conducted the defence for the Turks, and continually headed sorties against the besiegers, the Russians compelled to raise the siege 22 June 1854; freedom of city of Edinburgh conferred on him 2 March 1855; appointed captain unattached and brevet major in British army 15 Sept. 1854 for his services at Silistria; present at battle of the Alma and siege of Sevastapol; assistant adjutant general of Kilkenny district 1855; brigade major at the Curragh camp 1856–7; brigade major of second infantry brigade, Dublin 1857–8; brigade major at Sydney, N.S.W. 1858–9; major of 4 foot 25 May 1860, but sold out same day. _d._ Pau, France 2 June 1861. _I.L.N. xxxix_ 36 (1861) _portrait_. NASMYTH, JAMES HALL (son of Alexander Nasmyth, artist 1758–1840). _b._ 47 York place, Edinburgh 19 Aug. 1808; ed. at Edinb. high school 1817, and at school of arts 1821; assistant to Henry Maudslay, engineer at Lambeth, London May 1829, and to his partner, Joshua Field Feb. to Aug. 1831; invented a flexible shaft for driving small drills 1829, and the nut-shaping machine 1830; engineer in Dale st. Manchester 1834; built the Bridgewater foundry at Patricroft, near Manchester 1836; partner with Holbrook Gaskell 1836–52; made many improvements in machine tools; invented the steam hammer 1839, which he patented 9 June 1842; erected the first steam hammer in this country at Patricroft 1843; applied steam hammer to pile driving 1845; proposed the use of chilled cast-iron shot 1862; retired from business 1856, lived at Penshurst, Kent 1856 to death; contributed Remarks on tools and machines to T. Baker’s Elements of mechanism 1858, 2 ed. 1867; author with James Carpenter of The Moon, considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite 1874, 3 ed. 1885. _d._ Bailey’s hotel, Gloucester road, South Kensington 7 May 1890. _James Nasmyth, an autobiography_, _edited by S. Smiles_ (1883) _portrait_. NASON, JOHN. _b._ 19 Sept. 1827; ensign 49 foot 9 May 1846, captain 29 Oct. 1854; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, lieut. col. 3 March 1866, placed on h.p. 13 June 1870; lieut. col. brigade depôt 1 April 1873, placed on h.p. 1 April 1878; A.A.G. Northern district 1 Oct. 1870 to 31 March 1873; A.A. and Q.M.G. Northern district 8 May 1880 to 20 Dec. 1881; M.G. 10 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 April 1885. _d._ Comrie, Perthshire 23 April 1891. NATHAN, BARON (brother of the succeeding). _b._ 1793; teacher of dancing at 10 Kennington Cross, London 1844 to death; master of the ceremonies and managing director at Rosherville gardens, near Gravesend, many years, where on his benefit night he used to dance a hornpipe blindfolded in the midst of a number of eggs, placed on various parts of the stage, without once touching an egg, this was known as the egg hornpipe; there are many portraits of him in the early vols. of Punch. _d._ 10 Kennington Cross, London 6 Dec. 1856. NATHAN, ISAAC (son of jewish parents). _b._ Canterbury 1792; educ. Cambridge; articled to Dominico Corri of London, Italian composer; made his début on the stage as Henry Bertram in Bishop’s opera Guy Mannering at Covent Garden 12 March 1816, but his voice was not strong enough for the stage; dramatist and musical composer; musical historian to George IV and instructor in music to princess Charlotte of Wales; went to Sydney N.S.W. 1841, where he frequently lectured on music; author of An essay on the history of music 1823; Musurgia vocalis; an essay on the history of music 1836 vol. 1 no more published; Fugitive pieces and reminiscences of Lord Byron 1829; Memoirs of Madame Malibran de Beriot 1836, 3 ed. 1836; The Southern Euphrosyne and Australian miscellany, Sydney 1846; Lectures on music 1846; composer of A selection of ancient and modern Hebrew melodies, poetry by lord Bryon, music by J. Braham and I. Nathan 1815; God save the Regent, a national song 1818; Sweethearts and wives, an operatic comedy Haymarket 7 July 1823 ran 50 nights; The Alcaid, a comic opera Haymarket 10 Aug. 1824; The illustrious stranger, an operatic farce Drury Lane 4 Oct. 1827; Merry freaks, an operatic drama Sydney 1851; resided at Byron lodge, Randwick, Sydney. _killed_ descending from a tramcar in Pitt st. Sydney 15 Jany. 1864. _bur._ Camperdown cemet. 17 Jany. _Notes and Queries viii_ 494, _ix_ 71, 137, 178, 197, 355 (1883–4); _Georgian Era iv_ 280 (1834). NATHAN, MOSES NATHAN. _b._ 1805; Jewish rabbi at Denmark court synagogue, London then at Liverpool 1829; one of the first to give instruction to Jews in the English language; the first to preach for the benefit of a christian institution, the Liverpool dispensary 1833; minister in Jamaica, St. Thomas and New Orleans; author of Prepare to meet thy God 0 Israel, a sermon, Jamaica 1843; A defence of ancient rabbinical interpretation of the law of Deut. xxiii, 3, an answer to J. M. De Solla, Kingston, Jam. 5621 (1861). _d._ Bath 13 May 1883. _bur._ Ball’s Pond cemet. _Jewish World 18 May 1883 p._ 2. NAYLOR, HENRY. First appeared on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 26 Dec. 1847 as the Henchman in Harlequin King gold; pantaloon in the Christmas pantomimes at Sadler’s Wells theatre Dec. 1852 to Dec. 1857; prompter at Vaudeville theatre, played the Butler in Our Boys there 4 Feb. 1879. _d._ 6 Feb. 1879 aged 60. NAYLOR, JAMES. _b._ Glasgow 1817; connected with Fox, Henderson & Co. London and Birmingham; established the Britannia engineering works, Birkenhead 1852; inventor of the floating graving dock; inventor and builder of the largest steam cranes in the world; a leading contractor to the admiralty nearly 40 years. _d._ 12 Sept. 1894. NAYLOR, SIDNEY. _b._ Kensington, London 24 July 1841; pianist, conductor, and composer; organist successively at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, St. Michael’s, Bassishaw, and St. Mary’s, Newington; had remarkable facility in transposition of music; one of the best accompanists to vocalists in his day; accompanist to Sims Reeves from 1870, and at London ballad concerts many years; partner with Carl Rosa in his second opera season 1874; composed a Te Deum, The Well of St. Keyne, a ballad 1880, and other songs; _m._ 16 Dec. 1868 Blanche Cole, soprano singer, they separated, she _d._ 30 Aug. 1888; he _d._ London 4 March 1893. _bur._ West Brompton cemet. _Illust. sp. and dr. news_ 11 March 1893 _p._ 24 _portrait_. NAYLOR, THOMAS HACKE (son of Thomas Hargrave Naylor of Carisbrook, Isle of Wight). _b._ 4 Dec. 1809; educ. at Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1841; went Norfolk circuit; recorder of Sudbury and judge of court of pleas of that borough Aug. 1866 to death; mayor of Cambridge 1872–3, and 1877–8; author of Cases in election law decided in Cambridge borough scrutiny 1857. _d._ The Hill house, Chesterton, Cambs. 3 March 1882. _Law Journal lxxii_ 376 (1882). NAYLOR, WILLIAM. _b._ 8 May 1782; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Retford 1802–3, Gainsborough 1803–5, Edinburgh 1805–7, Liverpool 1820–3, London 1829–35 and 1850–3, Manchester 1847–50; author of The visions of sapience, reply to a malignant attack on Methodism by J. Douglas, Leeds 1815; Miscellaneous musings, poems 1835; Hymns for personal, domestic, and social worship, Manchester 1850; Selections from a minister’s manuscripts, Wednesbury 1854, and 24 other books, chiefly sermons. _d._ 1868. NEALE, EDWARD ST. JOHN (son of Daniel Neale of Supreme court, Madras). Joined the Liberating army of Portugal 20 Sept. 1832, engaged in attack on St. Sebastian May 1836; member of order of St. Ferdinand; accompanied sir G. L. Hodges to Servia May 1837; in charge of consulate at Belgrade; British vice-consul at Alexandria 1841; consul at Varna in Bulgaria 1847; consul for the Morea 1858; consul at Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro 1858; secretary of legation in China 3 Jany. 1860, in Japan 25 Jany. 1862, and at Athens 21 April 1865; chargé d’affaires and consul general at Guayaquil, Equador 14 Aug. 1865 to death; C.B. 27 Nov. 1863. _d._ the British legation house, Quito 11 Dec.