1754–1828). _b._ 13 Jany. 1789; ed. at Harrow, a governor of
the school 1828–36, founded in 1840 two scholarships of £30 a
year for 3 years, and in 1851 gave a gold medal to be given
annually to the best proficient in mathematics; M.P. Gatton 8
March to 24 July 1830; M.P. Chippenham 30 July 1830 to death;
came into possession of about £900,000 on death of his maternal
great uncle, Phillip Rundell of Ludgate st. London, goldsmith,
who _d._ 17 Feb. 1827 aged 81; purchased estate of Grittleton,
Wilts from colonel Houlton 1828; F.L.S. 1829; F.S.A. 31 Jany.
1828; M.R.G.S. _d._ 6 Grosvenor sq. London 24 March 1856.
_bur._ 31 March under north aisle of church of Leigh Delamere,
near Chippenham, which was rebuilt at his sole expense 1846.
_Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_ 243–48 (1854).
NEGRETTI, ENRICO ANGELO LUDOVICO. _b._ Como, Italy 1817; came
to London 1829; glass-blower and thermometer maker at 19
Leather lane, Holborn 1843, removed to 9 Hatton garden 1848;
partner with J. W. Zambra 1850; they gained many prize medals
at Great exhibition of 1851; meteorological instrument makers
to the queen, Greenwich observatory and British meteorological
society 1851; took out a patent for thermometers and barometers
1852; the firm became known all over the world; they removed
to 107 Holborn hill 1858, and to Holborn circus 1869; friend
of Garibaldi, who was his guest in 1854; chief of the Italian
Garibaldi reception committee in London 1864; naturalised as a
British subject 11 April 1862; obtained the respite of Serafino
Pelizzioni, who was sentenced to be executed 22 Feb. 1865 for
murdering Michael Harrington Dec. 1864, Pelizzioni was liberated
March 1865, the murder having been really committed by Gregorio
Mogni; author of A treatise on meteorological instruments 1864.
_d._ Cricklewood house, Cricklewood, Middlesex 24 Sept. 1879.
_M. Williams’s Leaves of a life i_ 113–24 (1890).
NEILD, JOHN CAMDEN (younger son of James Neild, silversmith and
philanthropist 1744–1814). _b._ 4 St. James’s st. London 3 May
1780; ed. at Eton 1793–7, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1801, M.A.
1804; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1808; succeeded to a fortune of
£250,000 on his father’s death 1814; became a confirmed miser;
attempted to cut his throat at North Marston, Bucks. 1827; left
by his will nearly the whole of his property, estimated at
half-a-million, to queen Victoria for her sole use and benefit,
two caveats were entered against the will but were subsequently
withdrawn. _d._ 5 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 30 Aug. 1852. _bur._ in
chancel of North Marston church 9 Sept., the queen restored this
chancel in 1855 and erected a stained-glass window and reredos
to Neild’s memory. _H. Tattam’s Short memoir of J. C. Neild_
(1852); _Timbs’s English eccentrics_ (1875) 99–103; _Chambers’s
Book of days ii_ 285–8 (1864); _G.M. xxxviii_ 429–31, 492
(1852), _xxxix_ 570 (1853); _I.L.N. xxi_ 222, 350 (1852);
_xxvii_ 379, 380 (1855).
NEILL, JAMES GEORGE SMITH (eld. son of colonel Wm. Smith Neill
of Burnweill, Ayrshire 1784–1850). _b._ near Ayr 27 May 1810;
ed. at Ayr and Glasgow univ.; ensign 1 Madras European regiment
5 Dec. 1826, adjutant 7 March 1834, major 25 March 1850; deputy
assistant A.G. in the Ceded districts 23 March 1841–50; deputy
assistant to Madras troops in the Burmese war 1852–3; second in
command of Anglo-Turkish contingent in the Russian war 1855–6,
went to Constantinople April 1855; commanded his regiment
28 April 1857 to death; brigadier general in command of the
Haidarabad contingent June 1857 to death; was gazetted A.D.C.
to the queen, with rank of colonel in the army 16 Oct. 1857;
commanded at Cawnpore July 1857; commanded the right wing in the
advance to Lucknow 19 Sept. _shot dead_ outside Lucknow 25 Sept.
1857. _bur._ Lucknow 26 Sept., colossal statue by Noble erected
in Wellington sq. Ayr. _J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has
known_ (1874) 321–8; _J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers
ii_ 353–416 (1867); _E. H. Nolan’s British empire in India ii_
724 (1860) _portrait_; _R. M. Martin’s Indian empire ii_ 292
_et seq._ (1860) _view of his death_; _W. Forbes-Mitchell’s
Reminiscenses of the great mutiny_ (1893) _appendix A_; _I.L.N.
xxxi_ 577, 578 (1858) _portrait_.
NOTE.--He wrote the history of his regiment under the title of
Historical record of the Madras European regiment 1843. His widow
Isabella Neill was raised 26 Nov. 1857 to the same rank as if her
husband had survived to be created K.C.B., for which honour he was
named in the London Gazette Nov. 1857, she was granted a pension of
£500 a year by the East India Co. 1857 and _d._ 1875. His fourth son
Andrew Harry Spencer Neill _b._ 30 Aug. 1844, ensign Madras infantry 20
Aug. 1861, commanded second regiment of Central India horse 5 Nov. 1880
to death, major Bengal staff corps 20 Aug. 1881 to death, was _shot
dead_ on parade by an insane trooper of his regiment 14 March 1887 at
Agar, Central India.
NEILL, PATRICK. _b._ Edinburgh 25 Oct. 1776; head of the large
printing firm of Neill and Co.; secretary of the Wernerian
natural history society 1808; secretary of the Caledonian
horticultural society 1809–49; laid out the West Princes st.
gardens, Edinb. 1820; the rosaceous genus Neillia is called
after him; F.L.S. 1813; F.R.S. Edinb.; LL.D. Edinb. univ.;
author of A Tour through some of the islands of Orkney and
Shetland 1806; An account of the basalts of Saxony, from the
French of J. F. D’Aubuisson 1814; and of the article Gardening
in the 7th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which was
published under title of The fruit, flower, and kitchen garden
1840, 5 ed. 1854. _d._ Canonmills cottage, near Edinburgh 3
Sept. 1851. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii_ 191–2 (1855); _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 115 _portrait_.
NEILL, ROBERT (son of John Neill, captain). _b._ Irvine,
Ayrshire 1822; ed. at Dr. Browne’s school, Greenock, and univ.
of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1846; partner with his uncle
James Dunlop 1846–9, when the latter died; practised by himself
1849–56, and with his brother Stewart Neill 1856 to death;
provost of Greenock 1871–2; published Forms of proceedings in
maritime causes before the sheriff court in Scotland 1878. _d._
Balgray, Greenock 18 March 1881. _Law Times lxx_ 430 (1881).
NEILL, THOMAS, the assumed name of Thomas Neill Cream. _b._
Glasgow about 19 May 1850; taken to Quebec when a child;
received a medical education at M’Gill college, Montreal 1872–6,
when he took a degree; attended lectures at St. Thomas’s
hospital, London; took two degrees at univ. of Edinb.; practised
as physician in Ontario and at Chicago 1880–1 under his real
name; arrived at Liverpool 1 Oct. 1891; lodged at 103 Lambeth
palace road, London, until 6 Jany. 1892, and again in April
1892; poisoned by strychnine a woman called Matilda Clover
at 27 Lambeth road, London 21 Oct. 1891; probably poisoned
also Alice Marsh, Ellen Donworth, and Emma Shrivell; tried at
central criminal court for murder of Matilda Clover 17–20 Oct.
1892, found guilty and sentenced to death 20 Oct. _hanged_
by Billington at Newgate prison, London 9 a.m. 15 Nov. 1892.
_Central criminal court sessions paper, Minutes of evidence
cxvi_ 1417–60 (1892); _Times 16 Nov. 1892 p._ 11; _Daily Graphic
18 Oct. 1892 p._ 1 _portrait_; _Spectator 29 Oct. 1892 p._ 590.
NEILSON, JAMES BEAUMONT (younger son of Walter Neilson,
engine-wright at the Govan coal works, near Glasgow). _b._
Shettleston, near Glasgow 22 June 1792; engine-wright of a
colliery at Irvine 1814–7; foreman of the Glasgow gas works
1817, manager and engineer of the works 1822–47; invented the
swallow-tail burner, which came into general use; invented
the hot blast in the manufacture of iron, which is now in
general use; patented the invention with his partners, Charles
Macintosh and John Wilson 1 Oct. 1828; established the validity
of the patent after a ten days’ trial 1843; this invention made
available the black band ironstone, formerly useless; M.I.C.E.
1832; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1846. _d._ Queenshill, near Kirkcudbright
18 Jany. 1865. _Maclehose’s Glasgow Men ii_ 245–8 (1886)
_portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 451–3 (1870);
_S. Smiles’s Industrial biography_ (1879) 149–61; _Chambers’s
Biog. Dict. of eminent Scotsmen iii_ 215–6 (1870); _Report
of the case Neilson_ v. _Harford in the court of exchequer_,
_Edinb._ (1841); _Report of case of Neilson_ v. _Baird_ (1843).
NEILSON, JOHN FINLAY. Parliamentary reporter for The Times
nearly 40 years. _d._ 61 Bessborough st. London 27 July 1881
aged 72.
NEILSON, LILIAN ADELAIDE, stage name of Elizabeth Ann Brown
(dau. of Ann Brown, an actress, who became Mrs. Bland). _b._ 35
St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 3 March 1848; lived at Skipton 1848–50;
worked as a mill hand at Guiseley; a nurse girl in the family
of Mr. John Padgett at Hawkhill house, Guiseley 1859–61; a
barmaid, under name of Lizzie Ann Bland, at a public house near
the Haymarket, London; a ballet girl; befriended by admiral
Henry Carr Glyn; first appeared on the stage at Margate 1865
as Juliet, under name of Lilian Adelaide Lizon, which she
afterwards changed to Neilson; pupil of John Ryder the actor;
first appeared in London at Royalty theatre 17 July 1865 as
Juliet; the original Gabrielle de Savigny in Watts Phillip’s
Huguenot Captain at Princess’s 2 July 1866; played Victorine in
the drama Victorine at Adelphi 14 Nov. 1866, the original Nellie
Armroyd in W. Phillips’s Lost in London at Adelphi 16 March
1867; played Rosalind at T.R. Edinburgh 25 Sept. 1868; played at
Prince of Wales’s theatre, Birmingham in Millicent, an adaption
of Miss Braddon’s Captain of the Vulture 2 Nov. 1868; the
original Lilian in W. Marston’s Life for life at Lyceum 6 March
1869, Madame Vidal in Oxenford and Wigan’s A life chase 11 Oct.
1869, Mary Belton in Uncle Dick’s Darling 13 Dec. 1869, both at
Gaiety; began a series of dramatic readings at St. James’s hall
26 May 1870; appeared as Amy Robsart in A. Halliday’s Kenilworth
at Drury Lane 24 Sept. 1870, and as Rebecca in his Ivanhoe 23
Sept. 1871; played Juliet and Pauline at Queen’s Sept. 1872; at
Booth’s theatre, New York acted Juliet 18 Nov. 1872, reappeared
in America 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, and 1880; the first
Anne Boleyn in Tom Taylor’s Anne Boleyn at Haymarket 5 Feb.
1876, played there again in 1878; acted Isabel of Bavaria in
The crimson cross at Adelphi 27 Feb. 1879; arrived in Paris
from London, on her way to Trouville 11 Aug. 1880. _d._ at the
Nouveau chalet du rond royal, Bois de Boulogne, Paris 15 Aug.
1880, body removed to the Morgue same day. _bur._ West Brompton
cemetery, London 20 Aug. _L. C. Holloway’s Adelaide Neilson_,
_New York_ (1885) 8 _portraits and view of tomb_; _M. A. de
Leine’s L. A. Neilson, a memorial sketch_ (1881) _portrait_;
_W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1890) 94–8, 2 _portraits_; _C. E.
Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 271–5; _W. Marston’s Our recent
actors ii_ 219–50 (1888); _W. Winter’s Shadows of the stage_
(1892) 47–62, _Second series_ (1892) _pp._ 268–76; _The Theatre
ii_ 155 (1879) _portrait_, ii 122, 183–4, 247–9, 253, 255, 271–3
(1880) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news i_ 289, 294 (1874)
_portrait_, _viii_ 569, 575 (1878) _portrait_, _and 21 Aug.
1880 p._ 558, _portrait_; _Saturday programme 23 Sept. 1876_
_portrait_, _14 Oct. pp._ 6–7, _and 29 Nov. p._ 4; _Touchstone
27 April 1878 pp._ 3–4 _portrait_; _Lippincott’s Mag. xxx_ 623;
_Era Almanac_ (1893) 17 _portrait_.
NOTE.--She was _m._ on 30 Nov. 1864 at St. Mary, Newington, Surrey,
as “Lilian Adelaide Lizon, dau. of Pera Lizon, gentleman,” to Philip
Henry Lee, son of P. H. Lee, rector of Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire.
This marriage was annulled, at her instance, by the supreme court in
New York 1877, husband and wife having been previously naturalised as
citizens of U.S. America. P. H. Lee _m._ (2) 21 Oct. 1880 Charlotte Ann
Rowe, dau. of Samuel Lillicrap Trevanion Penrose, R.N. and widow of
Charles Loftus Thorpe of Sonning, Berkshire.
Miss Neilson who had been unwell from 1876 ruptured a varicose vein
in the left fallopian tube, and died from internal hæmorrhage. _The
Lancet ii_ 348, 484 (1880).
Her will, dated 25 Sept. 1879, received probate 30 Aug. 1880, being
sworn under £25,000, exclusive of the Chicago property, George Henry
Lewis sole executor. She left £3,000 to be invested for her mother
Ann Bland, half of it at A. Bland’s death to go to her three sisters,
the other half to Thomas Brown. To Joseph Knight, theatrical critic
£1,000. To Edward Compton, actor £1,000, and the residue to her old and
steadfast friend vice admiral Henry Carr Glynn, who _d._ 16 Feb. 1884.
This money has been used as a fund for the relief of actors in distress.
NEILSON, PETER (youngest son of George Neilson, calenderer).
_b._ Glasgow 24 Sept. 1795; ed. at Glasgow high sch. and
univ.; with his father an exporter of cambric and cotton goods
to America; was in America on business 1822–8; settled at
Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire 1841; proposed improvements
in the life buoy 1846; suggested iron-plated ships to lord
John Russell 8 Jany. 1848, the Warrior and Black Prince were
built according to his plan; author of Recollections of six
years residence in the United States of America, Glasgow
1830; The millenium, a poem 1834; The life and adventures of
Zamba, an African king, corrected by P. Neilson 1847; Remarks
on ironbuilt ships of war and iron-plated ships of war 1861.
_d._ Kirkintilloch 3 May 1861. _interred_ in burying-ground of
Glasgow cathedral. _Poems of Peter Neilson_, _edited with memoir
by Dr. Whitelaw_ (1870).
NEILSON, WALTER (son of John Neilson). _b._ Glasgow March 1807;
partner in his father’s millwright and engineering business,
Oakbank foundry, Glasgow 1828; built the Fairy Queen, one of the
earliest iron ships, which had also the first oscillating marine
engines 1831; partner in Wilson’s and co.’s blast furnace iron
works, Summerlee, Coatbridge 1836, works became the Summerlee
iron co. 1870; adapted the Addenbrook system of collecting the
combustible gas and using it in heating the air of the blast,
and in getting up steam; owner of coal and ironstone mines;
produced sulphate of ammonia from the gasses emitted from the
blast furnaces; senior partner in Mossend iron and steel co.
on death of his brother, William Neilson; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868.
_d._ 18 Aug. 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxx_ 347–9
(1885).
NEILSON, WALTER MONTGOMERY (son of James Beaumont Neilson
1792–1865). _b._ Glasgow 1819; partner with Mr. Kerr in the
Hyde Park locomotive works, Glasgow, for making land and
marine engines; commenced making locomotives 1842; supplied
1,200 locomotives to India 1857 etc.; succeeded to Queenshill
estate, Kirkcudbrightshire 1865; colonel of 6 Lanarkshire
volunteer corps 9 Sept. 1874 to 2 July 1887; grand master of
freemasons Glasgow province; owner of Monte Picini estate, near
Florence, where he cultivated vines; M.I.C.E. 3 April 1860. _d._
Queenshill 8 July 1889. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. c_
400–1 (1890).
NEISH, THOMAS. _b._ 1789; insurance broker in the Cowgate,
Dundee 1807; partner with David Smart to 1826, when they failed;
a dealer in flax and other Russian produce to his death; one of
the first in Dundee to import jute, which he sold for upwards
of 30 years after its introduction; vice consul for Russia in
Dundee many years; became tacks-man of the shore dues in 1817
at a rental of £5605; took a prominent part in proceedings of
the Dundee chamber of commerce. _d._ 25 April 1864. _W. Norrie’s
Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 235–6.
NELIGAN, JOHN MOORE (son of a physician). _b._ Clonmel, co.
Tipperary June 1815; M.D. Edinb. 1836; M.D. Dublin 1853;
M.R.C.P. 1846, F.R.C.P. 1853; practised at Clonmel, moved to
Cork; physician in Dublin 1840 to death; physician to Jervis
st. hospital 1841; lectured on materia medica 1841–6, and on
medicine 1846–7 in the school, Peter st. Dublin; edited the
Dublin quarterly journal of medical science 1849–61; author of
Medicines, their uses and mode of administration 1844, 7 ed.
1867; The diagnosis and treatment of eruptive diseases of the
scalp 1848; A practical treatise on diseases of the skin 1852,
2 ed. 1866; Atlas of cutaneous diseases 1855; edited R. J.
Graves’s Clinical lectures on the practice of medicine, 2 ed.
1848, 4 ed. 1884. _d._ Clonmel house, near Blackrock, Dublin 24
July 1863. _C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in
Ireland_ (1886) 528, 593, 637, 692; _Dublin quarterly journal of
medical science Aug. 1863 pp._ 255–8.
NELSON, SIR ALEXANDER ABERCROMBY. _b._ Walmer, Kent 30 June
1814; ensign 40 foot 6 March 1835, captain 31 July 1846 to 31
Dec. 1847; served at Kandahar and in Afghanistan 1841–2, and
at battle of Haidarabad 24 March 1843; D.A.A.G. at Portsmouth
1855–6; brigade major at Portsmouth 1856–7; D.A.G. in Jamaica
9 Dec. 1864 to 27 Oct. 1866, with lieut. Herbert Brand tried
George William Gordon by court martial in Jamaica for high
treason and caused him to be hanged 23 Oct. 1865, Nelson and
Brand were tried for murder at central criminal court London
10 April 1867 and acquitted, but lord chief justice Cockburn
made strong remarks as to the evidence on which Gordon had been
sentenced to death; A.A.G. Cork district 1867; A.A.G. Gibraltar
1873–6; lieut. col. in the army 9 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9
June 1877; lieutenant governor of Guernsey 1 May 1879–83; M.G.
29 April 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 10
Oct. 1883; C.B. 29 May 1875, K.C.B. 30 May 1891. _d._ Walmer,
Bath road, Reading 28 Sept. 1893. _Charge of lord chief justice
Cockburn in the case of The queen against Nelson and Brand_
(1867); _Irving’s Annals_ (1876) 764, 766, 771.
NELSON, ALFRED (son of Mr. Nelson, actor). _b._ about 1830;
first appeared at theatre royal, Bristol, under Mrs. Macready’s
management; appeared as Horatio in Hamlet, Haymarket theatre,
London 29 July 1865; with his father and other relatives
arranged a musical and dramatic entertainment, with which
they travelled in Australia, America, and Canada; played at
Liverpool; played Jack Scroggins in Burnand’s Morden Grange
at Queen’s theatre 4 Dec. 1869; acted in Tom Taylor’s Twixt
Axe and Crown at Queen’s 22 Jany. 1870 for 9 months, and in My
wife’s dentist 300 nights; played Andrew Duvernay in Sir Charles
Young’s Montcalm 28 Sept. 1872 at Queen’s theatre; played Duke
of Norfolk in W. S. Raleigh’s Queen and cardinal at Haymarket
26 Oct. 1881, the Duke in A Midsummer night’s dream at Drury
Lane 13 March 1883, and Mr. Gibson in The ticket of leave man at
Her Majesty’s 14 April 1884; teacher of elocution at Guildhall
school of music, London 1880 to death; organised successful
Students’ recitals. _d._ 40 Lordship lane, Tottenham 5 March
1894. _bur._ Old West Norwood cemet. 8 March. _E. L. Blanchard’s
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_.