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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
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