Modern English biography

in chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey 25 Feb., personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 April 1865. _Numismatic Chronicle v_ 20 (1865); _G.M. xviii_ 504–11 (1865); _I.L.N. xlvi_ 177, 190, 213, 217 (1865) _portrait_; _G. J. Aungier’s History of Syon monastery_ (1840); _Illust. Times 4 March 1865 pp._ 129, 132, _views of funeral, &c._; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ 1857, 265–69 _and_ 465–74; _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 822. NORTHUMBERLAND, GEORGE PERCY, 5 Duke of (2 son of Algernon Percy, 1 earl of Beverley 1750–1830). _b._ Alnwick castle, Northumberland 22 June 1778; styled lord Louvain 1790–1830; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1799, LL.D. 1842; M.P. Beeralston 1799–1800; lieut. col. Northumberland regt. of militia 3 March 1804, col. 17 May 1804; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1804 to 10 Feb. 1806; commissioner for the affairs of India 6 April 1807 to 8 Sept. 1812; lord of the bed chamber to George IV 23 March 1826, and to William IV 24 July to Dec. 1830; succeeded as 2 earl of Beverley 21 Oct. 1830; captain of the yeomen of the guard 15 Jany. 1842 to 24 July 1846; P.C. 15 Jany. 1842; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; succeeded his cousin as 5 duke of Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865; hon. col. 2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 29 April 1865. _d._ Alnwick castle 21 Aug. 1867. _bur._ beneath chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster abbey 30 Aug., personalty sworn under £350,000, 21 Sept. _G.M. iv_ 532 (1867). NORTHWICK, JOHN RUSHOUT, 2 Baron (elder son of 1 baron Northwick 1739–1800). _b._ St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 16 Feb. 1770; educ. Hackney, London, and at Neufchatel; lived in Italy 1790–1800; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1800; a governor of Harrow school 1801 to death; the first man in Europe to receive the news of the victory of the Nile and that from Nelson himself at Palermo; F.S.A. 11 Dec. 1800; his celebrated gallery of pictures, 1881 in number, at Thirlestane, Cheltenham, was sold by auction for £95,725 26 July to 15 Aug. 1859; his cabinet of Greek coins and medals was sold by auction for £8,565, 5 Dec. to 17 Dec. 1859. _d._ Northwick park, near Morton in the Marsh 20 Jany. 1859. _Waagen’s Treasures of art iii_ 195–212 (1854); _A.R._ (1859) 130–2, 181 _and_ 466; _Hours in the picture gallery at Thirlestane house_ (1843); _Catalogue of the paintings the property of J. R. baron Northwick_ (1859). NORTHWICK, GEORGE RUSHOUT, 3 Baron (only son of hon. and rev. George Rushout, 1772–1842, rector of Burford, who took name of Bowles 20 June 1817). _b._ 30 Aug. 1811; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; cornet 1 life guards 18 Jany. 1833, captain 18 March 1842, placed on h.p. 4 June 1847; M.P. Evesham 1837–41; M.P. East Worcestershire 1847–59; lieut. col. Herefordshire militia 1853–62; chairman of Severn fishery board of conservators; succeeded his uncle as 3 baron 20 Jany. 1859. _d._ Upper Norwood 18 Nov. 1887. _Times 21 Nov. 1887 p._ 7. NORTON, BERNARD GUSTAVUS. Educ. Queen’s univ. Ireland; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; solicitor general of British Guiana March 1863, and first puisne judge of supreme court 1868 to death. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1871. _Solicitors’ Journal xv_ 478 (1871). NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (2 dau. of Thomas Sheridan, _d._ Cape of Good Hope 1817). _b._ 11 South Audley st. London 1808; resided with her mother in Hampton court palace 1817, then at Great George st. Westminster; _m._ (1) 30 July 1827 George Chapple Norton, he brought an action for crim. con. against lord Melbourne who was acquitted at the trial 23 June 1836; she obtained a separation 1840, he _d._ 24 Feb. 1876; she _m._ (2) 1 March 1877 sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell, 9 baronet, he _d._ 15 Jany. 1878; edited La belle assemblée, vols. 1–9, 1832 etc.; The English annual 1834; Fisher’s Drawing room scrap-book 1832 etc.; author of The dandies’ rout 1828, a satirical piece; The sorrows of Rosalie, a tale with other poems 1829; The undying one, and other poems 1830; A voice from the factories 1836, a poem; The dream and other poems 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The child of the islands 1845, a poem; Aunt Carry’s ballads for children 1847; Stuart of Dunleath, 3 vols. 1851; English laws for women in the nineteenth century 1854; Letter to the queen on lord chancellor Cranworth’s marriage and divorce bill 1855; Heimgegangen, in memory of H.R.H. the prince consort 1862; The lady of La Garaye 1862, 8 ed. 1875; Lost and saved, 3 vols. 1863, 5 ed. 1863; Old sir Douglas, 3 vols. 1867, new ed. 1871; edited The rose of Jericho, from the French 1869. _d._ 10 Upper Grosvenor st. London 15 June 1877, portrait by Mrs. Ferguson in Scottish National portrait gallery, she is depicted as Astrea the spirit of justice in Maclise’s fresco in the house of lords executed 1849; she is the heroine of George Meredith’s novel Diana of the Crossways, 3 vols. 1885. _Songs, poems and verses by Helen, lady Dufferin_ (1894) _p._ 32 _etc._; _F. Harvey’s Genealogical table of Sheridan family_ (1873); _P. Fitzgerald’s Lives of the Sheridans ii_ 352–448 (1886); _C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers_, _second series_ (1893) 121–41 _portrait_; _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 53–8 _portrait_, 355, 419, 457, 493; _C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs iii_ 349–51 (1874); _Graphic xv_ 624 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 595, 613 (1877) _portrait_; _Temple Bar Feb. 1878 pp._ 101–110; _Englishwoman’s Domestic Mag. xxiv_ 49, 67 (1878); _Traits of character by a contemporary ii_ 317–42 (1860); _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record_, _2 ed._ 1855 _p._ 761 _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers_ (1885) 101–3; _Reynold’s Miscellany i_ 233 (1847) _portrait_. NORTON, DANIEL (1 son of William Norton of Uxbridge). _b._ 1806; timber merchant Wharf road, City road, London 1827; resided Northwood park, near Rickmansworth: first played cricket at lord Ebury’s seat, Moor park 1856; started the Northwood park club 1865, and played in all the matches; often engaged professionals to play for his team, paid Coleman to be his groundsman; in his other club at Wharf road he also played in the matches; owner of landed estates in Kent, Middlesex, Herts., and Hants. _d._ The Dell, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 10 Feb. 1888. _Cricket 23 Feb. 1888 p._ 30. NORTON, FLEMING, stage name of Frederic Mills (youngest son of Wm. Mills of Lindridge Worcs.) _b._ 1836 or 1837; gave an entertainment at Egyptian hall, Piccadilly, Mr. Fleming Norton’s musical and mimetic entertainment entitled Perkin’s picnic 1875; acted sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera Comique theatre 20 Sept. 1879; the original capt. Flapper in Billee Taylor at Imperial theatre 30 Oct. 1880; a monologue entertainer and polyphonist; toured in Australia, New Zealand, the Straits Settlements, and India 1883–6; resided at 3 Olympia mansions, Kensington. _d._ 30 March 1895. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 3 April. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xxv_ 583 (1886) _portrait_. NORTON, GEORGE (son of John Norton of Shoreham, Sussex). _b._ 1791; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, Michel scholar 1815–6, M.A. 1810, fellow 1816–20; barrister I.T. 28 June 1816; appointed one of common pleaders of city of London; advocate general of Bombay 1825, of Madras 1827, retired 1854; first pres. of Madras univ.; author of Commentaries on the history, constitution, and chartered franchises of the city of London 1829, 3 ed. 1869; An exposition of the privileges of the city of London in regard to the claims of non-freemen to deal within its jurisdiction 1821; Rudimentals, a series of discourses on the principles of government, Madras 1841; Native education in India 1848; A new financial scheme for India 1857; Proselytism in India, with an account of the Tinnevelly slaughter 1859; Thought, its origin and operation 1876. _d._ Wyvols court, Swallowfield, near Reading 13 July 1876. NORTON, GEORGE CHAPPLE (2 son of Fletcher Norton, a baron of the exchequer in Scotland 1744–1820). _b._ 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Winchester and Edinb. univ.; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1825; a comr. of bankruptcy 1827–31; stipendiary magistrate at Lambeth st. Whitechapel 19 April 1831, this court was closed 28 Dec. 1844; stipendiary magistrate Lambeth police court, Kennington lane 4 Jany. 1845–67; M.P. Guildford 1826–30; recorder of Guildford Oct. 1827 to death; _m._ 1827 Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan. _d._ Wonersh park, Guildford 24 Feb. 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 223, 595 (1875); _Law Times lviii_ 349 (1875); _Times 1, 4, 8, 18, 20, 23 June 1836_. NORTON, JOHN BRUCE (eld. son of sir John David Norton, puisne justice Madras, _d._ 24 Sept. 1843). _b._ 1815; educ. Harrow 1829–34, in the cricket eleven 1832–3, head of the school 1833; matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 13 June 1833, postmaster 1833–7, B.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1841; sheriff of Madras 1843–5; clerk of the crown in supreme court of judicature 1845 till 17 Aug. 1862, when court was abolished; counsel for paupers 1847; government pleader 1 Feb. 1853; public prosecutor 15 Aug. 1862; acting advocate general 1862–3; advocate general 2 June 1863, resigned 1871; a senator of Madras univ. and professor of law; president of Patcheapah’s Institution; lecturer on law to Indian students at the Temple, London Jany. 1873; held private classes; author of Folia opima. By J. B. N. of Merton college 1843; The rebellion in India, how to prevent another 1857; The law of evidence applicable to the courts of the East India company 1858, 8 ed. 1873; Memories of Merton 1861, 2 ed. 1865 in verse; Nemesis, a poem 1861; A selection of leading cases in the Hindu law of inheritance, 2 vols. 1870–1. _d._ 11 Pengwern road, Kensington, London 13 July 1883. _Law Times 21 July 1883 p._ 232, _28 July p._ 249. NORTON, THOMAS (2 son of Peter Norton of Athlone, co. Westmeath). _b._ Athlone 1806; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; student Gray’s Inn 5 Feb. 1829, barrister 26 Jany. 1848, bencher 1865 to death, treasurer 1869; called to Irish bar 1835; practised in Dublin; first puisne judge British Guiana 10 June 1837 to 1844; chief justice of Newfoundland 14 Sept. 1844 to 8 Oct. 1847; chairman of committee of Reform club; contested Reading 8 Aug. 1849, Athlone 23 April 1853, and Lymington 12 July 1865; master in crown office of court of queen’s bench 1860–2; queen’s coroner and attorney 1860, resigned 1872. _d._ 13 Bolton row, Mayfair, London 12 April 1875. _bur._ Kensal green 19 April. _Law Times lix_ 39 (1875); _Irish Law Times 15 May 1875 p._ 252. NORWAY, WILLIAM KING (son of William Norway, merchant, Wadebridge 1774–1819). _b._ Court place, Egloshayle, Cornwall 25 Sept. 1799; educ. Eton from 1811, king’s scholar 1813; solicitor at Wadebridge, Cornwall 1822–31; private sec. to sir William Molesworth, bart.; sec. of the Reform club, Pall Mall, London July 1852; author of A lecture on total abstinence from intoxicating drinks 1842. _d._ suddenly in his room at the Reform club 31 Jany. 1857. _bur._ Kensal Green 5 Feb. NORWOOD, CHARLES MORGAN (1 son of Charles Norwood). _b._ Ashford, Kent 1825; merchant and steamship owner at Hull; head of firm of C. M. Norwood & Co. 9 Gracechurch st. London 1862, and at 21 Billiter st. 1870; president of Hull chamber of commerce 1859 and 1860; first chairman of Associated chamber of commerce of the United Kingdom which met at Westminster 21 Feb. 1865; M.P. Hull 1865–85; contested Central division of Hull 1885 and 1886; chairman of the London and India docks joint committee 1889, rejected the demands of the dock labourers in the strike of Aug. 1889. _d._ 34 Ennismore gardens, London 24 April 1891. _Pictorial World 9 May 1891 p._ 598 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 2 May 1891 p._ 563 _portrait_. NORWOOD, JOHN (eld. son of Benjamin Norwood of Nelson st. Dublin). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; called to Irish bar Nov. 1846; joined North-East circuit; reported for the Irish Jurist; secretary of the Loan fund board 1881 to death; member of corporation of Dublin many years; chairman of Drumcondra petty sessions; prepared a large work on municipal law. _d._ Lakelands, Dundrum, co. Dublin 9 Sept. 1884. _Irish law times 20 Sept. 1884 p._ 491. NOSOTTI, CHARLES ANDREW (son of Andrew Nosotti, wine grower Italy, _d._ 1835). _b._ Milan 1796; came to England about 1819; a jeweller at 132 Oxford st. 1819–22; looking glass and frame manufacturer, carver, gilder, and upholsterer at 398 Oxford street, London 1822 to death, where was an immense hall of mirrors. _d._ 398 Oxford st. 28 Aug. 1853. _bur._ Kensal green. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_ 203–5 (1865). NOTE.--His son Charles Francis Nosotti removed the business to 93–99 Oxford st. in 1880, and to 123 King’s road, Chelsea in 1891. He made a mirror 108 by 180 feet, weight 2 tons, cost £600, for the ball given by The Guards to the prince and princess of Wales 26 June 1863. NOTT, HENRY. _b._ 14 July 1810; ensign 19 Madras N.I. 24 April 1827, major 7 May 1860; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 17 Sept. 1871, L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 14 July 1880; general 22 Jany. 1889; commanded the force engaged in suppression of the rebellion in the Cuddepah district 1847; served in the Burmese war of 1852–3, and with general Whitlock’s force during the mutiny. _d._ The Elms, Great Stanmore, Middlesex 29 March 1895. NOTTAGE, CHARLES GEORGE (only son of the succeeding). _b._ 1853; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1879; barrister I.T. 11 May 1881; captain Devon artillery militia 17 Oct. 1885 to death. _d._ 35 Collingham road, South Kensington, London 24 Dec. 1894. NOTE.--His estate was sworn at the value of £37,824 Feb. 1895; he bequeathed to four trustees a sum of £13,000 to establish The Nottage Institute for instructing yachtsmen and other sailors in the science of navigation. He also left £2,000 for a Nottage cup for yachts, but this bequest was declared to be invalid, _Times 24 May 1895 p._ 13. NOTTAGE, GEORGE SWAN. _b._ London 10 Nov. 1822; lived in Essex to 1852; engaged in the iron business of his uncle R. W. Kennard, M.P. Newport; established the London stereoscopic and photographic company at 54 Cheapside, and 313 Oxford st. 1856; opened a shop at 108 Regent st. 1862; obtained medals for his photographs at Vienna, Paris, and Berlin exhibitions; erected the Orleans club and other buildings in Brighton; alderman for Cordwainer ward 8 Nov. 1876 to death; sheriff 1877–8; lord mayor 1884 to death; master of the Carpenters’ Co. 1884; _m._ 1851 Martha Christiana, dau. of James Warner, she was granted rank and precedence of the widow of a knight by royal warrant 1885. _d._ Mansion house, London 11 April 1885. _Graphic xvi_ 436 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L N. lxxxi_ 444 (1877) _portrait_, _lxxxv_ 444 (1884) _portrait_; _City Press 12 Nov, 1884 pp._ 2–3, 6, _15 April 1885 pp._ 2–3. NOTTIDGE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1767; governor of Asylum for deaf and dumb children 1797, and treasurer 1815 to death; resuscitated the Free grammar school, Bermondsey 1835; treasurer of Surrey and Kent commissioners of sewers; chairman of Wandsworth petty sessions; a well known philanthropist. _d._ Wandsworth, Surrey 17 March 1853. _bur._ at Bermondsey 23 March. _G.M. xxxix_ 550 (1853). NOVELLO, VINCENT (son of Giuseppe Novello, an Italian). _b._ 240 Oxford road, now Oxford st. London 6 Sept. 1781; a chorister at chapel of Sardinian embassy, Duke st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1793–7; organist of Portuguese embassy chapel in South st. Grosvenor sq. 1797–22; taught the piano at Campbell’s school in Brunswick sq. 27 years, and at Hibbert’s school, Clapton 25 years; founded firm of Novello & Co. music publishers 1811; his son Joseph Alfred became music publisher at 67 Frith st. Soho 1829; pianist and conductor for the Italian opera at the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1812; one of the 30 original members of Philharmonic soc. 1812, pianist to the society, afterwards conductor, his cantata Rosalba was produced by the society 1834; the Manchester prize for the best glee of a cheerful nature was awarded to his Old May Morning 1832; helped to found the Choral harmonists’ society, which first met 2 Jany. 1833, and the Classical harmonists’ society; organist at the musical festival in Westminster abbey 1834; organist of Roman catholic chapel in Moorfields 1840–3; member of the Royal soc. of musicians where he played the viola; lived at Nice 1849 to death; published Collection of sacred music as performed at the Portuguese chapel 1811; A collection of motetts with accompaniment for the organ and piano 1815, twelve books; Twelve easy masses, 3 vols. 1816; Mozart’s masses arranged 1819; The evening service 1822, twelve books; Haydn’s masses arranged 1823; Studies in madrigalian scoring 1841, eight books; Novello’s Cathedral choir book 1848; The Fitzwilliam music, selected from the Italian composers in the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge, 5 vols 1854; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music, original and arranged. _d._ Nice 9 Aug. 1861, memorial window placed in north transept of Westminster abbey 1863. _Mary Cowden-Clarke’s Life of Vincent Novello_ (1864) _portrait_; _A short history of cheap music_, _Novello, Ewer & Co._ (1887) _portrait_. NOTE.--On 17 Aug. 1808 he _m._ Mary Sabilla Hehl who _d._ Nice 25 July