Napier 1751–1804). _b._ Whitehall, London 10 Aug. 1782; ensign
33 foot 31 Jany. 1794; lieut. 89 foot 8 May 1794; captain in
the staff corps 22 Dec. 1803; major 50 foot 6 Nov. 1806 to 27
June 1811; served in Spain, was wounded five times at battle
of Corunna 16 Jany. 1809, a prisoner at Corunna Jany. 1809 to
Jany. 1810; lieut. col. 102 foot 27 June 1811 to 2 Sept. 1813;
commanded a brigade against U.S. of America May 1813 for some
months; lieut. col. 50 foot 2 Sept. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec.
1814; served as a volunteer against Napoleon 1815; inspecting
field officer in the Ionian Islands 30 July 1818, placed on
h.p. 1 March 1832; resident of Cephalonia March 1822 to 1830;
commanded troops in northern district, India April 1839, and
at Poona 12 Dec. 1841; commanded the Sinde and Beloochistan
division 24 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1846; won the battle of Meanee
with 2,700 men against more than 20,000 men 17 Feb. 1843;
defeated Shir Muhammad, the Lion of Mirpur, at Haidarabad 24
March 1843; Sinde finally annexed 24 May 1844; col. of 22 foot
21 Nov. 1843 to death; captured Bega Khan Dumki, the leading
hill chief 9 March 1845; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-in-chief
in India 7 March 1849 to 6 Dec. 1850; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B.
19 July 1838, G.C.B. 4 July 1843; author of Memoir on the roads
of Cephalonia 1825; The colonies, treating of their value
generally, of the Ionian islands in particular 1833; Remarks
on military law and flogging 1837; A letter on the baggage of
the Indian army 1849; A letter on the defence of England by
volunteers and militia 1852. _d._ Oaklands, near Portsmouth
29 Aug. 1853. _bur._ in ground attached to garrison chapel at
Landport; bronze statue by G. G. Adams in Trafalgar sq. London,
unveiled 26 Nov. 1856. _W. F. P. Napier’s Life of sir C. J.
Napier_, 4 _vols._ (1857) 4 _portraits_; _W. N. Bruce’s Life of
general sir C. Napier_ (1885) _portrait_; _J. J. Higginbotham’s
Men whom India has known_ (1874) 316–21; _E. H. Nolan’s Illust.
history of British empire in India ii_ 669 (1860) _portrait_;
_G.M. xl_ 410–6 (1853); _Men of the time_ (1853) 330–3; _I.L.N.
ii_ 255 (1843) _portrait_, _xiv_ 145, 146 (1849) 2 _portraits_,
_xxiii_ 191, 192, 229, 230, 431 (1853) _portrait_.
NOTE.--He was the first general who recorded in his despatches the
names of private soldiers who had distinguished themselves side by side
with officers. A portrait of him photographed by W. E. Kilburn on 24
March 1849, has been engraved in line by Joseph Skelton. He was called
in the army “Old Fagin” from his strong likeness to the Jew in Oliver
Twist.
NAPIER, DAVID. _b._ 1790; founded with his cousin Robert Napier,
the firm of Napier and Sons, shipbuilders and marine engineers,
Govan, Glasgow; introduced coasting steamers for the post office
service 1818; established regular steam communication between
Greenock and Belfast, and in 1822 between Liverpool, Greenock,
and Glasgow; constructed machinery for the United Kingdom
1826, the largest vessel then designed; invented the steeple
engine; tried the application of the surface condenser in marine
engines; proposed a plan for removal of the Glasgow sewage by
means of barges. _d._ 8 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington,
London 23 Nov. 1869. _Glasgow daily herald 27 Nov. 1869 pp._ 4,
5; _Engineering 3 Dec. 1869 p._ 365.
NAPIER, EDWARD DELAVAL HUNGERFORD ELERS (elder son of Edward
Elers, lieutenant R.N., _d._ 1814). _b._ 1808; took additional
name of Napier from his mother’s second husband, admiral sir
Charles Napier; ensign 46 foot 11 Aug. 1825, major 11 Oct.
1839, retired on h.p. 14 Oct. 1842; served in India 1830–3;
obtained release of Syrian troops detained by Mahomet Ali, and
conducted them to Beyrout, May to Sept. 1841; commanded bodies
of irregulars during the Kaffir war 1846–7; colonel of 61 foot
3 Oct. 1864, and of 46 foot 22 Feb. 1870 to death; L.G. 3 Oct.
1864; author of Scenes and sports in foreign lands, 2 vols.
1840; Excursions along the shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols.
1842; Reminiscenses of Syria, 2 vols. 1843; Wild sports in
Europe, Asia, and Africa, 2 vols. 1844; Excursions in Southern
Africa, 2 vols. 1849; The life of admiral sir Charles Napier, 2
vols. 1862. _d._ Westhill, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 19 June 1870.
_Colburn’s United service mag. Aug. 1870 pp._ 484–92.
NAPIER, GEORGE (son of George Napier, solicitor). _b._ 1802; ed.
at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1823; advocate depute
1830–4 and 1835–40; sheriff of Peebleshire 1840 to death. _d._
Coates hall, Haymarket terrace, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1883.
NAPIER, SIR GEORGE THOMAS (brother of sir Charles James Napier
1782–1853). _b._ Whitehall, London 30 June 1784; cornet 24 light
dragoons 25 Jany. 1800; lieut. 52 foot 25 Dec. 1802, major 27
June 1811; served in Sicily, Sweden, and Portugal, and in the
Peninsular campaigns 1809–11; lost his right arm at assault on
Ciudad Rodrigo 19 Jany. 1812; deputy adjutant general of the
York district 1812; lieut. col. 71 foot 24 March 1814; captain
3 foot guards 25 July 1814; lieut. col. 44 foot 22 Feb. 1821,
placed on h.p. 19 April 1821; governor and commander-in-chief at
Cape of Good Hope 4 Oct. 1837 to 12 Dec. 1843, where he enforced
the abolition of slavery, and abolished inland taxation;
declined command of Sardinian army 1849; col. of 1 West India
regiment 29 Feb. 1844 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4
June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; author of Passages in the early
military life of general sir G. T. Napier, edited by W. C. E.
Napier 1884, 2 ed. 1886. _d._ Geneva 8 Sept. 1855, his body
was brought to England July 1881 and _bur._ in family vault at
Cosham near Portsmouth. _Passages in the early military life of
Sir G. T. Napier_ (1886) _portrait_.
NAPIER, GEORGE THOMAS CONOLLY (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
1815; ensign 52 foot 7 Sept. 1832; lieut. Cape mounted riflemen
23 Feb. 1839, lieut. col. 17 May 1850 to 28 Jany. 1853, when
placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the queen 20 June 1854 to Dec. 1861;
deputy quartermaster general North America 1 July 1859 to 6
Dec. 1861; M.G. on the staff in Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 1 Jany.
1867; col. 96 foot 14 June 1869 to 10 May 1872; col. 22 foot 10
May 1872 to death; L.G. 30 April 1871; C.B. 31 May 1853. _d._
Morpeth terrace, Victoria st. Westminster 5 May 1873.
NAPIER, HENRY ALFRED (youngest son of 8 baron Napier 1758–1823).
_b._ 20 June 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822;
R. of Swyncombe, near Henley 13 Oct. 1826 to death; author of
Historical notices of the parishes of Swyncombe and Ewelme,
Oxfordshire 1858, 4to. 63/-, published by himself at Oxford.
_d._ Swyncombe rectory 20 Nov. 1871. _I.L.N. lix_ 531 (1871).
NAPIER, HENRY EDWARD (brother of sir George Thomas Napier
1784–1855). _b._ 5 March 1789; entered navy 20 Sept. 1806;
served in the East Indies 1808–11; lieutenant 4 May 1810;
commanded the Goree, 18 guns, 7 June 1814, and afterwards the
Rifleman, 18 guns, in the Bay of Fundy; placed on h.p. Aug.
1815, captain on h.p. 31 Dec. 1830; F.R.S. 18 May 1820; author
of Florentine history, from the earliest authentic records to
the accession of Ferdinand the third, 6 vols. 1846–7. _d._ 62
Cadogan place, London 13 Oct. 1853.
NAPIER, JAMES. _b._ Partick, Glasgow June 1810; apprenticed to
a dyer; studied at Glasgow univ.; lived in London and Swansea
several years; returned to Glasgow about 1849–50, where he
became closely associated with Anderson’s college and the
technical school founded by James Young; author of A manual of
electro-metallurgy 1851, 5 ed. 1876; A manual of the art of
dyeing, Glasgow 1853; A manual of dyeing receipts 1855, 3 ed.
1875; The ancient workers in metal, from references in the Old
Testament 1856; Stonehaven and its historical associations, 2
ed. 1870; Notes relating to Partick 1873; Manufacturing arts
in ancient times 1874; Folk lore or superstitious beliefs
in the West of Scotland 1879; illustrated J. Mac Arthur’s
The antiquities of Arran 1861, 2 ed. 1873. _d._ Bothwell,
Lanarkshire 1 Dec. 1884.
NAPIER, JAMES ROBERT (son of Robert Napier of Shandon
1791–1876). _b._ Camlachie 12 Sept. 1821; educ. Glasgow high
sch. and univ.; managed his father’s ship building at Govan
1841; invented plan of working outside plating of ships in
alternate in and out strakes; a partner in firm of R. Napier
and sons 1853–7; a shipbuilder on his own account a few years;
engaged in West Scotland fishery co.; invented the graphic
method of correcting deviations of a ship’s compass known as
Napier’s Diagram 1851; invented Napier’s Glass coffee apparatus;
took out many patents; a founder of Institution of engineers
in Scotland, president 1863; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; M.I.N.A.;
wrote 17 scientific papers; contributed to Macquorn Rankine’s
Shipbuilding, theoretical and practical 1866; edited Francis
Napier’s Australian notes. _d._ 22 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 13
Dec. 1879. _Maclehose’s Glasgow Men_ (1886) 115, 118, 237–40,
243, 270 _portrait_; _Nature xxi_ 206.
NAPIER, SIR JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Wm. Napier of
Belfast, merchant, _d._ 1830). _b._ Belfast 26 Dec. 1804; ed. at
Belfast academical institution; entered Trin. coll. Dublin Nov.
1820; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, LL.B. and LL.D. 1851; D.C.L. Oxford
1853; revived the Old College historical society, president
1854 to death; student at Gray’s Inn 1828; called to Irish
bar 1831; the only lawyer in Dublin who had pupils; delivered
lectures on the common law, and established a law institute in
Dublin; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844; much employed in appeals before the
house of lords; contested univ. of Dublin 9 Aug. 1847; M.P.
univ. of Dublin 1848–58; introduced and carried through the
house of commons the ecclesiastical code, afterwards known as
Napier’s ecclesiastical code; bencher of King’s Inns 1852;
attorney general of Ireland March to Dec. 1852; P.C. Ireland
1852; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854;
lord chancellor of Ireland 10 March 1858 to June 1859; created
baronet 26 March 1867; the special champion of the Irish church;
vice-chancellor of Dublin univ. 1867 to Dec. 1879; one of the 26
members of the ritual commission June 1867; P.C. 11 Nov. 1868;
member of judicial committee of privy council 11 Nov. 1868 to
Jany. 1881; chief comr. of the great seal Ireland 11 March 1874
to 1 January 1875; edited with John C. Alcock Reports of cases
argued in the courts of King’s Bench and exchequer chamber in
Ireland 1831–3, Dublin 1834; author of A manual of precedents
of forms and declarations on bills of exchange and promissory
notes 1831; Digest of the civil bill and manor courts statutes,
Dublin 1836, 2 ed. 1843; Essay on the communion service of the
church of England or Rome, which shall govern Ireland 1851, 2
ed. 1851; and many Addresses and Speeches 1854–73. _d._ St.
Leonard’s-on-Sea 9 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery,
Dublin, memorial tablets in mortuary chapel of the cemetery and
in St. Patrick’s cathedral. _A. C. Ewald’s Life of Sir Joseph
Napier_ (1887) _portrait_; _O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors
of Ireland_ (1879) 293–307; _Sir Joseph Napier’s Lectures,
essays, and letters_ (1888) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xiv_ 405 (1849)
_portrait_, _xxxiii_ 394 (1858) _portrait_; _Graphic xxvii_ 60
(1883) _portrait_.
NAPIER, MACVEY (son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the
Edinburgh Review 1829–47). _b._ 1807 or 1808; edited Selections
from the correspondence of the late Macvey Napier 1879. _d._ 7
Pembroke villas, Richmond, Surrey 8 July 1893.
NAPIER, MARK (only son of Francis Napier of Edinburgh, writer
to the signet). _b._ 24 July 1798; ed. at high school and univ.
of Edinb.; advocate at Scottish bar 1820; sheriff depute of
Dumfriesshire 4 Nov. 1844 to death, and of Galloway to death;
author of Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston 1834; History of
the partition of the Lennox 1835; Montrose and the covenanters,
2 vols. 1838; Commentaries on the law of prescription in
Scotland 1839, 2 ed. 1854; Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose,
2 vols. 1856. _d._ 6 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1879.
_Journal of jurisprudence xxiii_ 652 (1880).
NAPIER, PETER. _b._ Dumbarton 1793; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A.,
D.D. 1847; assistant presbyterian minister at Port Glasgow 1815;
minister of St. George’s in the Fields, Glasgow 1824; minister
of Blackfriars ch. Glasgow 1845 to death; author of A course of
lectures on infidelity 1842; Grace exhibited, grace communicated
1845. _d._ Glasgow 12 March 1865. _H. Scott’s Fasti ii, part_ 1
_p._ 35 (1868); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 315–22.
NAPIER, ROBERT (son of James Napier, blacksmith and millwright).
_b._ Dumbarton 18 June 1791; apprenticed to his father 1807–12;
blacksmith in Greyfriars’ Wynd, Glasgow 1815; ironfounder and
engineer at the Camlachie works in Gallowgate 1821, constructed
his first marine engine 1823 for the Leven; took extensive
works, the Vulcan foundry in Washington st. 1828, and the
Lancefield foundry on Anderston quay 1835, the works were sold
14 March 1877; engined all the paddle-wheel ships of the Cunard
company 1840–55; took his sons into partnership 1853; opened
a shipbuilding yard at Govan 1841, built his first ship the
Vanguard 1843; began constructing iron ships 1850; built the
Persia of 3,300 tons for the Cunard co. 1854; a juror at Paris
exhibition 1855, received gold medal and legion of honour; built
more than 300 vessels for the government and great companies
1856 to death; built men-of-war for the French, Turkish, Danish,
and Dutch governments; M.I.C.E. 31 March 1840; M.I.M.E. 1856,
president 1863–5. _d._ West Shandons, Glasgow 23 June 1876.
_Maclehose’s Glasgow Men_ (1886) 241–4 _portrait_; _Engineering_
(1867) 594–7 _portrait_, (1876) 554–5; _Min. of proc. of Instit.
of C.E. xlv_ 246–51 (1876) _with list of all the vessels engined
or built by him_; _Practical Mag. iii_ 1 (1874) _portrait_;
_Graphic xiv_ 44 (1876) _portrait_.
NAPIER, ROBERT D. (son of David Napier 1790–1869). _b._ Glasgow
1821; engineer with his father and his brother, Frank Napier, at
Glasgow to 1837, then with them as engineers Millwall, London
from 1837, where they built numerous steamships; went to New
South Wales; dredged Sydney harbour; invented the self-holding
brake; returned to Glasgow 1870, partner with his brother John
D. Napier as Napier Brothers; manufactured self-holding brakes
for ships’ windlasses, etc.; contributed to The Engineer and to
Trans. of Institution of Engineers, Glasgow; author of On the
velocity of steam and other gases 1866. _d._ Glasgow 8 May 1885.
_The Engineer 15 May 1885 p._ 387.
NAPIER, SIR ROBERT JOHN MILLIKEN, 9 Baronet (eld. son of sir
William John Milliken Napier, 8 baronet 1788–1852). _b._
Milliken house, near Johnstone, Renfrewshire 7 Nov. 1818;
ensign 79 foot 7 Aug. 1835, captain 12 April 1844, sold out 9
June 1846; succeeded his father 4 Feb. 1852; deputy lieut. of
Renfrewshire 1845, and convener 1859–65; lieut. col. commandant
of Renfrewshire militia 31 March 1854, hon. col. 19 Jany. 1878
to death. _d._ 32 Moray place, Edinb. 4 Dec. 1884.
NAPIER, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE (brother of sir Charles Napier
1786–1860). _b._ 10 May 1790; ensign 52 foot 3 July 1805;
captain in the Chasseurs Britanniques 27 Oct. 1809, placed on
h.p. 1814, when the corps was disbanded; served in Sicily and
Spain 1812–3; A.D.C. to sir John Hope in the Peninsula 1813,
lost his left arm at battle of the Nive 11 Dec. 1813; assistant
adjutant general in Ireland to 1843, deputy adjutant general
1843–6; governor of Edinburgh castle and commander of the troops
in Scotland May 1852 to 20 June 1854; colonel of 16 foot 28 Jany
1854 and of 71 foot 16 May 1857 to death; general 20 Sept. 1861;
C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; granted distinguished
service reward 1 June 1849. _d._ Polton house, Lasswade, near
Edinburgh 5 July 1863.
NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick (brother of sir George
Thomas Napier 1784–1855). _b._ Celbridge, co. Kildare 17 Dec.
1785; ensign royal Irish artillery 14 June 1800; ensign 62 foot
1800, lieut. 1801, placed on h.p. 1802; captain 43 foot 11 Aug.
1804, major 14 May 1812, placed on h.p. 17 June 1819; served
at siege of Copenhagen 1807, in Spain 1808–9, and in Portugal
1809–13; granted £150 per annum for his distinguished services
29 May 1841; lieutenant-governor of Guernsey Feb. 1842 to Dec.
1847; colonel of 27 foot 5 Feb. 1848, and of 22 foot 19 Sept.
1853 to death; general 17 Oct. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 27
April 1848; author of History of the war in the Peninsula and
in the south of France, from the year 1807 to the year 1814, 6
vols. 1828–40, 5 ed. 6 vols. 1851, upwards of 15 works appeared
in reference to these volumes; The conquest of Scinde, 2 vols.
1845; The life and opinions of general sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols.
1857, 2 ed. 1857. _d._ Scinde house, King’s road, Clapham park,
London 10 Feb. 1860. _bur._ Norwood; statue by G. G. Adams in
north transept of St. Paul’s cathedral. _H. A. Bruce’s Life
of sir W. F. P. Napier_, 2 _vols._ (1864) 2 _portraits_; _H.
Martineau’s Biog. Sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 199–212; _I.L.N.
xxxvi_ 172, 186 (1860) _portrait_.
NAPLETON, JOHN CHARLES (9 son of rev. Timothy Napleton, R.
of Powderham, Devon, _d._ 1816). _b._ 1811; ed. Worcester
coll. Oxf., Bible clerk 1830–2; B.A. 1833; P.C. of Hatfield,
Herefordshire 1844–58, and P.C. of Grendon Bishop 1849–58; P.C.
of All Saints’, Lambeth 1858 to death; author of Daily services
in the cottage 1848, new ed. 1877; The present condition of the
working classes 1855; A letter to C. H. Spurgeon, touching his
sermon on baptismal regeneration 1864. _d._ Bayswater, London 13
April 1867.
NAPOLEON III, CHARLES LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Emperor of the
French (3 son of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1778–1847, king of
Holland). _b._ Rue Cérutti, now Rue Lafitte, Paris 20 April
1808; became heir to the French empire 22 July 1832; arrived
in London from America 10 July 1837; went to Arenenberg to
attend his mother’s death bed 5 Oct. 1837; resided in London
at Fenton’s hotel, 63 St. James’s st. from 24 Oct. 1838, at
Waterloo place, at Carlton ter. to Dec. 1839, and at Carlton
gardens to Aug. 1840; one of the ten knight visitors at the
Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839, tilted on foot with Charles
Lamb in the ball room on 29 Aug.; attended on Wimbledon common
3 March 1840 to fight a duel with count Leon, a reputed son of
Napoleon I, the police interfered and carried the parties to
Bow st. where they were bound over to keep the peace; went from
Margate to Boulogne and attempted to seize the government of
France 6 Aug. 1840, condemned to perpetual imprisonment 6 Oct.
1840, sent to Ham, North France 10 Oct., escaped to England 25
May 1846; living at the Brunswick hotel, 52 Jermyn st. 27 May
1846; resided in Bath 1846; leased 3a King st. St. James, now 10
King st., from 1 Feb. 1847 at £300 a year, his furniture, etc.
sold by auction 22 May 1849; charged Charles Pollard of Essex
st. London with stealing two bills of exchange of £1,000 each,
prisoner acquitted on technical grounds 3 July 1847; a special
constable in London on day of Chartists’ procession 10 April
1848; author of Des Idées Napoleoniennes, London 1839, and of
Canal of Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific,
London 1846; president of the French republic 20 Dec. 1848;
emperor of the French 2 Dec. 1852; _m._ 29 Jany. 1853 Eugénie
Marie de Guzman, countess of Téba, _b._ 5 May 1826; with the
empress visited the queen at Windsor and Buckingham palace
16–21 April 1855; K.G. 18 April 1855; entertained by city of
London 19 April 1855; with the empress visited the queen at
Osborne 6–9 Aug. 1857; hon. M.I.C.E. 23 May 1869; declared war
against Prussia 15 July 1870, taken prisoner at Sedan 2 Sept.,
deposed at Paris 4 Sept., confined at Wilhelmshöhe near Cassel
5 Sept., released and landed at Dover 20 March 1871, resided at
Camden place, Chislehurst, Kent to his death 9 Jany 1873. _bur._
St. Mary’s ch. Chislehurst 15 Jany., the remains removed to a
mausoleum built by the empress at Farnborough, Surrey 9 Jany.
1888. _Blanchard Jerrold’s Life of Napoleon III_, 4 _vols._
(1874–82) _seven portraits_; _Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit_
(1852); _Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 94 _portrait_: _Passing
Events 18 Jany. 1873 portrait and other plates_; _I.L.N. 6 June
1846 pp._ 364–5 _portrait_, _23 Dec. 1848 p._ 385 _portrait_,
_21 April to 5 May 1855 pp._ 371 _et seq._ _portraits_, _15 Aug.
1857 p._ 154, _25 March 1871 p._ 283, _18 and 25 Jany. 1873 p._
65 _et seq._ _portraits_; _J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament_
(1843) _plates xviii, xx, and xxi_; _P. Larousse’s Grand
Dictionnaire xi_ 819–33 (1874).
NOTE.--His real father was Charles Henri Verhuel a well-known Dutch
admiral, his mother was Hortense de Beauharnais, dau. of the empress
Josephine, by her first marriage. He is depicted under the name of
Porphyro in the novel entitled Rumour, By the author of Charles
Auchester, Counterparts, &c, &c. [Miss Elizabeth S. Sheppard] 3 vols.
1858. He was known in France under the sobriquets of Badinguet,
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.