Modern English biography

Life ii_ 375, 417, 526, 549, 560 (1891). NELSON, ANN. Proprietor or had an interest in the greater number of coaches running into Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk; kept the Bull inn 25 Aldgate high st. London 1824 to death. _d._ 1853. _G.M. Sept. 1871 p._ 497. NELSON, ARTHUR MARSH. _b._ 1811; played leading parts in the legitimate drama in the provincial and minor theatres; became a talking clown; a clever musician and great favourite; made his last appearance in London at Alhambra palace. _d._ Bromley 28 July 1860. NELSON, CHARLES GUDGEON. Entered R.N. 1845; lieut. 28 Feb. 1854; served in Baltic during Russian war 1854–6; prepared prince Alfred, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, for the naval profession 1858, and for his lieutenants examination 1863; commander 24 Nov. 1862; one of her majesty’s gentlemen ushers 27 Oct. 1862 to death; commanded the President, 31 guns, on the home station 1869–70; retired as captain 1 Oct. 1873; settled at Godalming, became well known in horticultural circles; his brother, the rev. J. Nelson, bequeathed to him a unique collection of bulbs, which he much increased. _d._ Holme lodge, Godalming, Surrey 20 April 1892. NELSON, HORATIA (dau. of Horatio, lord Nelson 1758–1805, by Emma, lady Hamilton 1761–1815). _b._ England 30 Jany. 1801; lord Nelson when dying said ‘Remember I leave lady Hamilton and my daughter Horatia as a legacy to my country’; lord Nelson left her the interest of £4,000 by his will 1805; resided with her mother at Merton, Surrey to 1808; was with her mother when she died at Calais 15 Jany. 1815; lived with lord Nelson’s sister 1815–22; _m._ 19 Feb. 1822 at Burnham, Norfolk, rev. Philip Ward, vicar of Tenterden, Kent, _d._ 16 Jany. 1859; known as Mrs. Horatia Nelson Ward. _d._ Beaufort villa, Woodrising, Pinner 6 March 1881. NELSON, HUGH (son of Robert Nelson of Larne). _b._ in Ulster 1830; made a fortune in the lumber trade in British Columbia; member for city of New Westminster in Canadian parliament; a member of the dominion senate; lieutenant governor of British Columbia 8 Feb. 1887–91; took part in Canadian International fisheries’ exhibition 1883. _d._ at residence of his sister, Mrs. James Murray 6 Cedars road, Clapham, Surrey, 3 March 1893. NELSON, ISAAC. Minister of Presbyterian church, Donegall st. Belfast to 1880; contested Leitrim April 1880; M.P. co. Mayo 24 May 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885. _d._ Sugarfield, Belfast 8 March 1888. NELSON, JOHN (son of Ann Nelson, _d._ 1853). _b._ about 1794; led the opposition against the Eastern counties railway having a terminus in Whitechapel, which was successful, the company being driven to Shoreditch; started the Wellington omnibuses 1856, which caused the ruin of the London conveyance company; kept the Bull inn, Aldgate 1853 to death. _d._ 24 July 1868. _G.M. Sept. 1871 p._ 498. NOTE.--A few months after his death, the celebrated old ‘Bull Inn,’ which had belonged to the Nelson family 150 years, was dismantled and sold by auction piecemeal, with its rare old stock of wines and quaint old-fashioned silver plate. NELSON, PARK (son of John William Nelson, solicitor). _b._ 10 June 1804; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1811 etc.; articled to his father; solicitor in partnership with George Nelson 1826–9; partner with William Benfield Nelson 1835, they took in Joseph John Morgan 1873, firm being Park, Nelson, and Morgan, 11 Essex st. Strand, London; member of council of Incorporated law society 28 Nov. 1861 to death, vice pres. 1871–2, pres. 1872–3; clerk to the Skinners’ co. _d._ Parson’s Green, Fulham, Middlesex 19 Dec. 1876. _Solicitor’s Journal xxi_ 167 (1876). NELSON, RICHARD JOHN (son of general Richard Nelson). _b._ Crabtree, near Plymouth 3 May 1803; 2 lieut. R.E. 6 Jany. 1826, lieut. col. 20 June 1854, colonel 17 May 1860; commanded the R.E. at Halifax, Nova Scotia Sept 1858, returned to England Aug. 1861; retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 5 Feb. 1864; edited with G. G. Lewis and sir H. Jones The Aide-memoire of military science 1846; author of Geology of the Bermudas; Memoranda of the Bahama tornado, by W. J. Woodcock, part 2 by R. J. Nelson 1850; Lockspeise, or inducement to the study of the German language 1855; and of many papers in the Professional papers of the corps of royal engineers. _d._ 12 Penlee villas, Stoke, Devonport 17 July 1877. NELSON, ROBERT HENRY (son of Henry Nelson of Leeds). Lieut. in Baker’s horse with Wood’s flying column during Zulu war; commanded a mounted native corps under the resident magistrate of British Basutoland; one of H. M. Stanley’s officers in Emin Pasha relief expedition 1888; in service of Imperial British East Africa co.; in charge of the district of Kikuyu, midway between the coast and the Victoria Nyanza to death. _d._ of dysentery at Dagoreti, East Africa 26 Dec. 1892. _I.L.N. 28 Jany. 1893 p._ 106 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 21 Jany. 1893 p._ 8 _portrait_. NELSON, SYDNEY (son of Solomon Nelson). _b._ London 1 Jany. 1800; pupil of sir George Smart; teacher of music in London; partner with Charles Jeffreys as music sellers at 21a Soho sq. 1840–3; associate of Philharmonic society 1843; music publisher at 61 Greek st. Soho 1843–4, at 28 New Bond st. 1844–7; arranged a musical and dramatic entertainment with members of his family and went on tour in North America, Canada, and Australia; his burletta, The Grenadier, was produced at the Olympic about 1835; The Cadi’s daughters performed at Macready’s farewell benefit at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851; his grand opera Ulrica was rehearsed at Princess’s but never produced; composer of The pilot, a song 1835; The hero of a hundred fights, a song 1837; All hail my native shore, recitative and air 1840; The better land 1840; The maid of Athens, a song 1840; The men of merry England 1850; Six vocal duets 1852; Vocal gems of foreign operas 1852; The vocalist’s daily practice 1852; Six vocal trios 1852; Mary of Argyle, a song 1860; England’s volunteers, a song 1862; composer of about 800 pieces 1826–62. _d._ London 7 April 1862. _bur._ West Ham cemet. NELSON, THOMAS. _b._ 1780; presbyterian minister 1810; presented to Little Dunkeld, but his settlement refused for his want of knowledge of Gaelic 26 Oct. 1824; appointed minister of Muckhart, but appointment not confirmed 1825; minister of Auchtergaven 21 July 1831 to death; author of A sermon on the return of peace 1814; A pronouncing geographical vocabulary 1821; Historical account of the visit of George iv 1822; Life of William Ritchie 1830. _d._ Auchtergaven 27 March 1852. _H. Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ_, _vol._ 2, _part ii_ 791 (1859). NELSON, THOMAS (son of a farmer). _b._ Throsk near Stirling 1780; an assistant to a publisher in London 1800; a canvasser for subscribers to Henry’s Bible, 6 volumes folio, brought out in shilling parts; a second hand bookseller in Edinburgh; issued Scots Worthies in parts; removed to a shop in the West Bow; published Baxter’s Saints’ rest and other works; admitted his sons, William 1835 and Thomas 1840, into partnership, when the firm became Thomas Nelson and sons; removed to Hope park 1843; published cheap theological literature, juvenile works, school books, and maps, also the Family Treasury. _d._ Abdenhouse, Prestonfield, Edinburgh 23 March 1861. _bur._ the Grange cemetery. _H. Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 399–411. NELSON, THOMAS. _b._ Carlyle 1807; partner in Denton Holme marble works, Carlisle; builder and railway contractor, Carlisle; constructed the Silloth and Carlisle railway and dock; executed works for the North Eastern, and London and North Western railway companies; in partnership with his sons made the Cardiff dock; director of Cumberland union bank; purchased Friars Carse estate on the Nith near Dumfries, and the Hermitage in which Burns wrote some of his poems 1872; made a collection of Burns’ manuscripts and other relics. _d._ Friars Carse, Dumfries 19 Sept. 1890. _Dumfries Courier 20 Sept. 1890 p._ 2. NELSON, THOMAS (younger son of Thomas Nelson 1780–1861). _b._ Edinburgh 25 Dec. 1822; entered his father’s publishing business 1840; established and had charge of the London branch 1844–6; superintended the manufacturing department at Hope park, Edinburgh, the firm employed about 500 people; invented a rotary press with curved stereotype plates fixed on cylinders 1850; established an American branch 1854; initiated a series of school-books written principally by himself; published the Royal Readers 1872; edited the Children’s Paper, which had a great sale; the Nelson’s premises at Hope park were completely destroyed by fire 1878, but new premises were built at Parkside, St. Leonard’s, within a year; became a partner in firm of Bartholomew and co., map engravers, Edinburgh; author of A class atlas of ancient geography 1867; author with Thomas Davies of New atlas of the world 1859. _d._ St. Leonard’s, Dalkeith road, Edinburgh 20 Oct. 1892, leaving more than £1,000,000, bequeathed £50,000 for erection of a working men’s club. NELSON, SIR THOMAS JAMES (eld. son of Thomas Nelson of Mark house, Walthamstow, Essex, _d._ 16 May 1883, aged 84). _b._ 18 Oct. 1826; ed. at City of London sch. and at college of Saxe-Coburg in Germany; solicitor in city of London 1848–62; solicitor to the city of London 18 Dec. 1862 to death; conducted the litigation respecting Epping Forest, lasting many years; knighted at Windsor castle 21 April 1880; chairman of Lower Thames valley main sewerage board, and of the Hampton Wick local board; acted as remembrancer of city of London during litigation between corporation and C. H. Robarts the remembrancer 1880–1. _d._ The Grove, Hampton Wick, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Teddington cemet. 13 Feb. _Law Journal 14 Feb. 1885 p._ 115; _Law Times 14 Feb. 1885 p._ 290. NELSON, WALTER (youngest child of John Wm. Nelson, sailmaker, Rotherhithe, and storekeeper of Deptford dockyard). _b._ 5 Feb. 1818; ed. at Merchant Tailors’ school 1825 etc.; copied Rymer’s transcripts in the British Museum for the record commission 1834–7; clerk in the record office 1840; one of assistant keepers of public records at Carlton Ride 1853 to death. _d._ 11 Margaretta terrace, Chelsea, London 2 Aug. 1862. _G.M. xiii_ 501 (1862). NELSON, WILLIAM (brother of Thomas Nelson 1822–92). _b._ Edinburgh 13 Dec. 1816; entered his father’s publishing business 1835; travelled in Scotland and England, taking orders for the firm’s publications 1836; the chief agent in extending the business; spent large sums of money restoring St. Bernard’s Well on the water of Leith, the Argyle tower, St. Margaret’s chapel, and the old Scottish parliament house in Edinburgh castle, which was re-opened by Princess Louise Oct. 1892; erected a memorial cross to Alexander III, the last of the Celtic kings, at Kinghorn in Fifeshire; was presented with freedom of burgh of Kinghorn July 1887. _d._ Salisbury Green, Dalkeith road, Edinburgh 10 Sept. 1887. _bur._ in Grange cemetery. _Sir Daniel Wilson’s William Nelson_, _a memoir with portrait_; _Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. xix pp. lviii–lxii_; _Bookseller Oct. 1887 p._ 1002; _D. Bremner’s Industries of Scotland_ (1869) 502–4. NELSON, WOLFRED (son of Wm. Nelson of the commissariat department, royal navy). _b._ Montreal 10 July 1792; obtained degree of M.D. Jany. 1811 and began practice at St. Denis, near Montreal; carried on a distillery and brewery at St. Denis; elected member of the assembly of Lower Canada for borough of William Henry 1827; chairman at a great meeting of delegates from six counties of Lower Canada held at St. Charles 23 Oct. 1837, a warrant was issued against him for his violent speeches, he defended himself against the troops and defeated the 23rd regiment on 23 Nov. but was ultimately captured and kept a prisoner in Montreal gaol until 1838; practised medicine at Plattsburg, New York 1838–42, at Montreal 1842 to death; member of assembly for county of Richelieu 1845; chairman of the board of health 1847; inspector of prisons 1851, chairman of board of prison inspectors 1859; contributed to Medical Gazette 1844, and to other journals. _d._ Montreal 17 June 1863. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 295. NEPEAN, CHARLES WIDEKIND. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 26 Nov. 1830; lieut. col. 24 Aug. 1847 to death. _d._ Bombay 14 May 1853. NEPEAN, EVAN (4 son of sir Evan Nepean, 1 Bart. of Loders, Dorset, _d._ 2 Oct. 1822). _b._ 20 April 1800; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; minister of Grosvenor chapel, South Audley st. London 1830 to death; R. of Heydon, Norfolk 1831–61; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 3 Aug. 1848 to death; resident canon of Westminster 29 Aug. 1860 to death, installed 19 Sept.; author of A sermon on occasion of the funeral of the duke of Wellington 1852. _d._ Little Cloisters, Westminster abbey 13 March 1873. _bur._ in Westminster abbey 18 March. _I.L.N. lxii_ 283 (1873). NERINCKX, JOHN. _b._ Ninove, Belgium Aug. 1776; ordained R.C. priest by a French bishop in a private room 1801; honorary chaplain of church of St. Aloysius, Clarendon sq. Somers Town, London 1830 to death; founded the schools attached to the church. _d._ 49 Clarendon sq. London 21 Dec. 1855. _Tablet 29 Dec. 1855 p._ 821. NESBIT, ALFRED ANTHONY (son of John Collis Nesbit 1818–62). _b._ 1854; partner in firm of Nesbit, Lansdell and co., analytical chemists at 38 Gracechurch st. London 1876–82, in business by himself at same address 1882–5; his patent for preventing the fraudulent alteration of cheques (No. 2184 of 1880) was well received but never used; patented an improved ink for obliterating postage stamps 1883; successful in colouring white flowers by causing them to absorb aniline dyes of various shades. _d._ 1894. NESBIT, ANTHONY (son of Jacob Nesbit, farmer of Long Benton, near Newcastle). _bapt._ Long Benton 3 May 1778; under-master at Preston gr. sch. 1808–9; land surveyor and teacher of mathematics at Farnley, near Leeds 1810; set up a school at Bradford about 1814; kept a school in Oxford road, Manchester about 1821–41; started a school at 38 Lower Kennington lane, London about 1841; author of A complete treatise on practical land surveying, York 1810, 12 ed. 1870; Mensuration 1816; An