Modern English biography

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.