1800; pupil of sir George Smart; teacher of music in London;
partner with Charles Jeffreys as music sellers at 21a Soho sq.
1840–3; associate of Philharmonic society 1843; music publisher
at 61 Greek st. Soho 1843–4, at 28 New Bond st. 1844–7; arranged
a musical and dramatic entertainment with members of his family
and went on tour in North America, Canada, and Australia; his
burletta, The Grenadier, was produced at the Olympic about 1835;
The Cadi’s daughters performed at Macready’s farewell benefit at
Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851; his grand opera Ulrica was rehearsed
at Princess’s but never produced; composer of The pilot, a song
1835; The hero of a hundred fights, a song 1837; All hail my
native shore, recitative and air 1840; The better land 1840;
The maid of Athens, a song 1840; The men of merry England 1850;
Six vocal duets 1852; Vocal gems of foreign operas 1852; The
vocalist’s daily practice 1852; Six vocal trios 1852; Mary of
Argyle, a song 1860; England’s volunteers, a song 1862; composer
of about 800 pieces 1826–62. _d._ London 7 April 1862. _bur._
West Ham cemet.
NELSON, THOMAS. _b._ 1780; presbyterian minister 1810; presented
to Little Dunkeld, but his settlement refused for his want
of knowledge of Gaelic 26 Oct. 1824; appointed minister of
Muckhart, but appointment not confirmed 1825; minister of
Auchtergaven 21 July 1831 to death; author of A sermon on the
return of peace 1814; A pronouncing geographical vocabulary
1821; Historical account of the visit of George iv 1822; Life
of William Ritchie 1830. _d._ Auchtergaven 27 March 1852. _H.
Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ_, _vol._ 2, _part ii_ 791 (1859).
NELSON, THOMAS (son of a farmer). _b._ Throsk near Stirling
1780; an assistant to a publisher in London 1800; a canvasser
for subscribers to Henry’s Bible, 6 volumes folio, brought out
in shilling parts; a second hand bookseller in Edinburgh; issued
Scots Worthies in parts; removed to a shop in the West Bow;
published Baxter’s Saints’ rest and other works; admitted his
sons, William 1835 and Thomas 1840, into partnership, when the
firm became Thomas Nelson and sons; removed to Hope park 1843;
published cheap theological literature, juvenile works, school
books, and maps, also the Family Treasury. _d._ Abdenhouse,
Prestonfield, Edinburgh 23 March 1861. _bur._ the Grange
cemetery. _H. Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 399–411.
NELSON, THOMAS. _b._ Carlyle 1807; partner in Denton Holme
marble works, Carlisle; builder and railway contractor,
Carlisle; constructed the Silloth and Carlisle railway and dock;
executed works for the North Eastern, and London and North
Western railway companies; in partnership with his sons made
the Cardiff dock; director of Cumberland union bank; purchased
Friars Carse estate on the Nith near Dumfries, and the Hermitage
in which Burns wrote some of his poems 1872; made a collection
of Burns’ manuscripts and other relics. _d._ Friars Carse,
Dumfries 19 Sept. 1890. _Dumfries Courier 20 Sept. 1890 p._ 2.
NELSON, THOMAS (younger son of Thomas Nelson 1780–1861).
_b._ Edinburgh 25 Dec. 1822; entered his father’s publishing
business 1840; established and had charge of the London branch
1844–6; superintended the manufacturing department at Hope
park, Edinburgh, the firm employed about 500 people; invented a
rotary press with curved stereotype plates fixed on cylinders
1850; established an American branch 1854; initiated a series
of school-books written principally by himself; published the
Royal Readers 1872; edited the Children’s Paper, which had a
great sale; the Nelson’s premises at Hope park were completely
destroyed by fire 1878, but new premises were built at Parkside,
St. Leonard’s, within a year; became a partner in firm of
Bartholomew and co., map engravers, Edinburgh; author of A class
atlas of ancient geography 1867; author with Thomas Davies of
New atlas of the world 1859. _d._ St. Leonard’s, Dalkeith road,
Edinburgh 20 Oct. 1892, leaving more than £1,000,000, bequeathed
£50,000 for erection of a working men’s club.
NELSON, SIR THOMAS JAMES (eld. son of Thomas Nelson of Mark
house, Walthamstow, Essex, _d._ 16 May 1883, aged 84). _b._
18 Oct. 1826; ed. at City of London sch. and at college of
Saxe-Coburg in Germany; solicitor in city of London 1848–62;
solicitor to the city of London 18 Dec. 1862 to death; conducted
the litigation respecting Epping Forest, lasting many years;
knighted at Windsor castle 21 April 1880; chairman of Lower
Thames valley main sewerage board, and of the Hampton Wick local
board; acted as remembrancer of city of London during litigation
between corporation and C. H. Robarts the remembrancer 1880–1.
_d._ The Grove, Hampton Wick, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1885. _bur._
Teddington cemet. 13 Feb. _Law Journal 14 Feb. 1885 p._ 115;
_Law Times 14 Feb. 1885 p._ 290.
NELSON, WALTER (youngest child of John Wm. Nelson, sailmaker,
Rotherhithe, and storekeeper of Deptford dockyard). _b._ 5 Feb.
1818; ed. at Merchant Tailors’ school 1825 etc.; copied Rymer’s
transcripts in the British Museum for the record commission
1834–7; clerk in the record office 1840; one of assistant
keepers of public records at Carlton Ride 1853 to death. _d._ 11
Margaretta terrace, Chelsea, London 2 Aug. 1862. _G.M. xiii_ 501
(1862).
NELSON, WILLIAM (brother of Thomas Nelson 1822–92). _b._
Edinburgh 13 Dec. 1816; entered his father’s publishing business
1835; travelled in Scotland and England, taking orders for the
firm’s publications 1836; the chief agent in extending the
business; spent large sums of money restoring St. Bernard’s Well
on the water of Leith, the Argyle tower, St. Margaret’s chapel,
and the old Scottish parliament house in Edinburgh castle,
which was re-opened by Princess Louise Oct. 1892; erected a
memorial cross to Alexander III, the last of the Celtic kings,
at Kinghorn in Fifeshire; was presented with freedom of burgh
of Kinghorn July 1887. _d._ Salisbury Green, Dalkeith road,
Edinburgh 10 Sept. 1887. _bur._ in Grange cemetery. _Sir Daniel
Wilson’s William Nelson_, _a memoir with portrait_; _Proc. of
Royal soc. of Edinb. xix pp. lviii–lxii_; _Bookseller Oct. 1887
p._ 1002; _D. Bremner’s Industries of Scotland_ (1869) 502–4.
NELSON, WOLFRED (son of Wm. Nelson of the commissariat
department, royal navy). _b._ Montreal 10 July 1792; obtained
degree of M.D. Jany. 1811 and began practice at St. Denis, near
Montreal; carried on a distillery and brewery at St. Denis;
elected member of the assembly of Lower Canada for borough of
William Henry 1827; chairman at a great meeting of delegates
from six counties of Lower Canada held at St. Charles 23 Oct.
1837, a warrant was issued against him for his violent speeches,
he defended himself against the troops and defeated the 23rd
regiment on 23 Nov. but was ultimately captured and kept a
prisoner in Montreal gaol until 1838; practised medicine at
Plattsburg, New York 1838–42, at Montreal 1842 to death; member
of assembly for county of Richelieu 1845; chairman of the board
of health 1847; inspector of prisons 1851, chairman of board of
prison inspectors 1859; contributed to Medical Gazette 1844, and
to other journals. _d._ Montreal 17 June 1863. _H. J. Morgan’s
Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 295.
NEPEAN, CHARLES WIDEKIND. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 7
Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 26 Nov. 1830; lieut. col. 24
Aug. 1847 to death. _d._ Bombay 14 May 1853.
NEPEAN, EVAN (4 son of sir Evan Nepean, 1 Bart. of Loders,
Dorset, _d._ 2 Oct. 1822). _b._ 20 April 1800; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; minister of Grosvenor chapel, South
Audley st. London 1830 to death; R. of Heydon, Norfolk 1831–61;
chaplain in ordinary to the queen 3 Aug. 1848 to death; resident
canon of Westminster 29 Aug. 1860 to death, installed 19 Sept.;
author of A sermon on occasion of the funeral of the duke of
Wellington 1852. _d._ Little Cloisters, Westminster abbey 13
March 1873. _bur._ in Westminster abbey 18 March. _I.L.N. lxii_
283 (1873).
NERINCKX, JOHN. _b._ Ninove, Belgium Aug. 1776; ordained R.C.
priest by a French bishop in a private room 1801; honorary
chaplain of church of St. Aloysius, Clarendon sq. Somers Town,
London 1830 to death; founded the schools attached to the
church. _d._ 49 Clarendon sq. London 21 Dec. 1855. _Tablet 29
Dec. 1855 p._ 821.
NESBIT, ALFRED ANTHONY (son of John Collis Nesbit 1818–62). _b._
1854; partner in firm of Nesbit, Lansdell and co., analytical
chemists at 38 Gracechurch st. London 1876–82, in business
by himself at same address 1882–5; his patent for preventing
the fraudulent alteration of cheques (No. 2184 of 1880) was
well received but never used; patented an improved ink for
obliterating postage stamps 1883; successful in colouring white
flowers by causing them to absorb aniline dyes of various
shades. _d._ 1894.
NESBIT, ANTHONY (son of Jacob Nesbit, farmer of Long Benton,
near Newcastle). _bapt._ Long Benton 3 May 1778; under-master
at Preston gr. sch. 1808–9; land surveyor and teacher of
mathematics at Farnley, near Leeds 1810; set up a school at
Bradford about 1814; kept a school in Oxford road, Manchester
about 1821–41; started a school at 38 Lower Kennington lane,
London about 1841; author of A complete treatise on practical
land surveying, York 1810, 12 ed. 1870; Mensuration 1816; An
introduction to English parsing 1817; A treatise on practical
gauging, York 1822; A treatise on practical arithmetic,
Liverpool 1826, second part London 1846; An essay on education
1841. _d._ 38 Lower Kennington lane, London 15 March 1859.
_bur._ Norwood cemet.
NESBIT, JOHN COLLIS (son of Anthony Nesbit 1778–1859). _b._
Bradford, Yorkshire 12 July 1818; constructed a galvanic battery
1833; lecturer upon scientific subjects; helped to manage his
father’s school in London about 1841, eventually the school
was converted into a chemical and agricultural college under
his sole direction; obtained a large practice as a consulting
and analytical chemist; F.G.S. and F.C.S. 1845; discovered
important beds of coprolites in the Ardennes 1855; presented
by the Farmers’ club and others with testimonial, value £300,
7 Dec. 1857; author of Lecture on agricultural chemistry at
Saxmundham 1845; On Peruvian guano, its history, composition,
and fertilising qualities 1852, 5 ed. 1852, translated into
German 1853; On agricultural chemistry 1856; The history and
properties of natural guanos, new ed. 1860. _d._ at the house of
a friend at Barnes 30 March 1862. _Farmers Mag. May 1856 pp._
415–6, _Jany. 1858 p._ 6, _May 1862 p._ 458; _Quarterly Journal
of Geol. Soc._ (1863) _p. xix_; _I.L.N. 19 April 1862 p._ 394
_portrait_.
NESBIT, ROBERT (son of Benjamin Nesbit, farmer). _b._ Bowsden,
Durham 22 March 1803; educ. St. Andrews; tutor in family of Dr.
Inverarity at Arbroath 1823–5; tutor in family of A. N. Groves
at Exeter 1825; presbyterian minister 15 Dec. 1826; missionary
of the Scottish missionary society at Bombay 1827–43; a student
of Sanscrit, Hindustani, and Marathi; Free church minister at
Bombay 1843–8, 1851 to death; revised the Marathi New Testament;
author of Discourses, chiefly on doctrinal subjects, Bombay
1835, Berwick 2 ed. 1837. _d._ Bombay 26 July 1855. _J. M.
Mitchell’s Memoir of R. Nesbit_ (1858) _portrait_.
NESBITT, ALEXANDER. _b._ Ireland 1817; an enthusiast respecting
Gothic architecture in connection with ancient domestic
buildings; contributed the articles Baptistry, Church, etc.
to Smith’s Dictionary of Christian Antiquities 1875–80; with
his pen and pencil aided John Henry Parker in his Domestic
architecture 1851; F.S.A. 26 May 1859, contributed many
important papers to the Archæologia; made molds from ivory
carvings, his process and his molds formed the groundwork of
the Arundel Societies’ collection of fictile ivories; formed a
collection of fragments of ancient glass, now in British museum;
wrote introductions to W. Chaffers’ Catalogue of the collection
of glass formed by F. Slade 1871, and to A descriptive catalogue
of the glass vessels in South Kensington museum 1876. _d._
Oldlands, near Uckfield 21 June 1886. _Proc. of Soc. of
Antiquaries xi_ 372 (1885–7).
NESBITT, COSBY LEWIS. Second lieut. 60 foot 27 March 1824,
lieut. col. 26 July 1844 to death; served throughout the Caffir
war 1851–3. _drowned_ in fording the Keiskamma river, Cape of
Good Hope 1 Oct. 1853.
NESBITT, FRANCIS, stage name of Francis Nesbitt McCron. _b._
Manchester 1809; studied for the medical profession; acted
in the English provinces and at Glasgow to 1840; arrived in
Port Jackson, N.S.W. 7 Jany. 1841; played Pizarro at Victoria
theatre, Sydney 1841; one of leading actors in Australia 1841
to death; toured round the colonies 1843–8; sailed for San
Francisco 1848; returned to Sydney 1852. _d._ the hospital,
Geelong, Victoria 1853. _bur._ in Geelong cemet., where a
monument was placed over his grave by G. V. Brooke 1856.
NESBITT, WILLIAM (son of John Nesbitt, wesleyan minister).
_b._ Enniskillen 1824; on the staff of the Raphoe royal school
1841; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1844; professor of Latin Queen’s
college, Galway 1849–54, and then professor of Greek 1854–64;
professor of Latin at Belfast branch of Queen’s univ. 1864 to
death; D.Lit of Queen’s univ. Sept. 1881. _d._ 24 Mount Charles,
Belfast 26 Nov. 1881. _The Belfast News-Letter 28 Nov. 1881 p._
5.
NESFIELD, CHARLES. _b._ 1802; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., B.A.
1827, M.A. 1831; V. of Stratton, Wilts. 1833–64; V. of Headon
with Upton, Notts. 1864 to death; author of Horace’s Art of
poetry, translated into English verse By A Graduate of Cambridge
1854; Reformata filii confessio 1855. _d._ Headon vicarage 27
Oct. 1878.
NESFIELD, WILLIAM ANDREWS (son of Wm. Nesfield, R. of
Brancepeth, Durham). _b._ Chester-le-Street 19 Feb. 1793;
entered Winchester school as fourth scholar 1806, went to Trin.
coll. Camb. 1807; a cadet at Woolwich 1809; 2 lieut. 95 foot
26 June 1812; lieut. 89 foot 1814; lieut. 76 foot 1816; lieut.
48 foot 25 March 1817; lieut. on h.p. 24 Dec. 1818 to death;
served in the campaign of the Pyrenees, at St. Jean de Luz, and
in Canada; associate of Society of painters in water-colours
Feb. 1823, a member 9 June 1823, resigned 14 June 1852; was
famous for his pictures of waterfalls; a professional landscape
gardener 1852; planned the horticultural gardens at South
Kensington 1860, also the grounds at Arundel castle, Trentham
and Alnwick; with C. Stanfield and others illustrated J. P.
Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847. _d._ 3 York terrace, Regent’s
park, London 2 March 1881.
NESFIELD, WILLIAM EDEN (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ Bath
2 April 1835; ed. at Eton; articled to Wm. Burn of London,
architect; designed Kinmel park, Denbigh, Cloverley hall,
Shropshire, the hall and church at Loughton, Essex, Farnham
Royal church, and lodges at Kew gardens and Hampton court; a
designer of all kinds of furniture; published Specimens of
mediæval architecture, chiefly selected from examples of the
12th and 13th centuries in France and Italy 1861–2; resided 6
Waverley place, St. John’s wood, London. _d._ Brighton 25 March
1888.
NESHAM, CHRISTOPHER JOHN WILLIAMS (son of Christopher Nesham,
captain 63 foot). _b._ 1771; entered navy Jany. 1782; created
a citizen of the French republic 17 Nov. 1789, for protecting
a corn merchant named Planter from a furious mob at Vernon in
Normandy Oct. 1789; presented with a sword by the assembly
at Paris Jany. 1790; captain 29 April 1802; captain of the
Intrepid, 64 guns July 1808 to Dec. 1809; took part in the
capture of Martinique Feb. 1809; captain of the Melville, 74
guns, in the Mediterranean 1830–1; R.A. on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837;
replaced on the active list 17 Aug. 1840; V.A. 9 Nov. 1846;
admiral on h.p. 30 July 1852. _d._ Exmouth, Devon 4 Nov. 1853.
_Paris municipalité, Assemblée, courone (sic) civique décernée à
un Jeune Anglais, pour avoir suavé la vie à un Français_ 1790.
NETHERCLIFT, FREDERICK GEORGE (son of the succeeding). _b._ 9
Sept. 1817; lithographic artist and printer with his father
1847–53; partner with Alexander Durlacher at 18 Brewer st.
Golden sq. 1853–8; carried on business at 17 Mill st. Conduit
st. 1858–66, at 10 Poland st. 1866–8, at 38 Brewer st. 1868–70,
at 19 Air st. 1875–7; handwriting expert at 7 Theobald’s
road 1881–3, and at 10 Bedford row 1883 to death; engaged in
connection with the Irish commission 1889; is depicted in
Charles Reade’s novel Foul Play 1869, under name of Underclift;
published A collection of one hundred autograph letters 1849;
The autograph miscellany 1855; The hand-book of autographs
1858–62; and the fac-similes in R. Sims’ The autograph souvenir
1863, and L. B. Phillips’ The autographic Album 1866; composer
of Bend thy sail mariner, a song 1868. _d._ 33 Shaftesbury road,
Hornsey rise, Middlesex 26 March 1892. _M. Williams’s Leaves of
a life_ (1891) 265.
NETHERCLIFT, JOSEPH. _b._ Whitchurch, Hampshire 8 Sept. 1792;
lithographic artist and printer at 23 King William st. Strand,
London 1833–51, at 100 St. Martin’s lane 1851–8, and at 113
St. Martin’s lane 1858 to death; was in partnership with his
son 1847–53; a musician, gained a prize for the best madrigal;
obtained a prize for production of transfer paper used in
lithography; produced many documents in fac-simile by permission
of the trustees of British Museum, such as The Magna Charta and
The death warrant of Charles the First 1829; author of Autograph
letters of illustrious women 1838; composer of Twenty four
psalms and hymns, with accompaniments for the organ or piano
1842, and other music. _d._ 50 Sydney st. Brompton, London 8
April 1863. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _Cornhill Mag. Feb. 1885 pp._
148–62.
NETTLEFOLD, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ London 1827; in a hardware
business with his father and brother 54 High Holborn, London;
managed the gimlet pointed wood screw branch of the business
at Birmingham, in conjunction with Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.,
Chamberlain retired 1874; became a colliery proprietor
and a wire manufacturer; business formed into a company as
Nettlefolds, limited, with works at Smethwick; a member of
Institute of mechanical engineers 1860; resided King’s Heath,
Birmingham; presented his collection of David Cox’s paintings,
valued at £40,000, to town of Birmingham Oct. 1881. _d._ Allean
house, Pitlochry, Perthshire 22 Nov. 1881, personalty sworn
as £287,000 Feb. 11, 1882. _Proc. of Instit. of mechanical
engineers_ (1882) 9–10.
NETTLESHIP, HENRY (eld. son of Henry John Nettleship of
Kettering, Northamptonshire, solicitor). _b._ Kettering 5 May
1839; ed. at Lancing college, Durham sch. and at Charterhouse;
scholar of C.C. coll. Oxford 3 April 1857–61; Hertford scholar
and Gaisford prizeman 1859; Craven scholar 1861; B.A. 1861,
M.A 1863; fellow of Lincoln college 20 Jany 1862–71, tutor and
librarian 1862–8; lecturer in classics Christ Church 1863–8;
assistant master at Harrow 1868–73; fellow of C.C. coll. 1873,
tutor and librarian 1875; joint classical lecturer at C.C. coll.
and Ch. Ch. 1873; Corpus professor of Latin 25 June 1878 to
death; matric. at univ. of Berlin 1865, and attended lectures
there one term; edited J. Conington’s P. Virgili Maronis 1858,
another ed. 1881; J. Conington’s The satires of A Persius
Flaccus 1872; Essays of Mark Pattison 1889; A. O. Seyffert’s A
dictionary of classical antiquities 1891; M. Pattison’s Isaac
Casaubon, 2 ed. 1892; author of Ancient lives of Vergil 1879;
Lectures and essays on subjects connected with Latin literature
and scholarship 1885; Contributions to Latin lexicography 1889.
_d._ 17 Bradmore road, Oxford 10 July 1893. _I.L.N. 22 July 1893
p._ 94 _portrait_; _Graphic 22 July 1893 p._ 103 _portrait_.
NETTLESHIP, RICHARD LEWIS (brother of the preceding). _b._
Kettering 17 Dec. 1846; ed. at Uppingham school 1858–65, captain
1863–5; scholar of Balliol coll. Oxf. 1864–9, fellow 1869 to
death, tutor 1871, dean 1872; Hertford scholar 1866, Ireland
scholar 1867, Craven scholar 1870; B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872;
contributed The theory of education in Plato’s Republic to
Evelyn Abbott’s Hellenica 1880, pp. 67–180; wrote A memoir of
Thomas Hill Green, prefixed to the third volume of Green’s works
1880, pp. xi–clxi. _d._ between the Aiguille du Gouter and the
Dome du Gouter 25 Aug. 1892, from exposure while attempting to
ascend Mont Blanc. _bur._ at English church, Chamounix 29 Aug.,
memorial tablet placed in the antechapel of Balliol college, and
a scholarship, tenable at the college by a student of music,
founded by his pupils and friends. _Uppingham School Magazine
Nov. 1892._ _I.L.N. 3 Sept. 1892 p._ 291 _portrait_.
NEUBERG, JOSEPH. _b._ Heidingsfeld, close to Würzburg, Bavaria
21 May 1806; in business at Hamburg and at Nottingham; president
of the People’s college; naturalised in England 16 June 1845;
studied at univ. of Bonn 1850–3; friend of Thomas Carlyle 1848,
and his voluntary secretary 1849; his companion and guide over
the battle fields of Prussia 1852; published T. Carlyle’s works
in German as, T. Carlyle über Helden Heldenverehrung und das
Heldenthümliche in der Geschichte 1853, 2 ed. 1889; Geschichte
Friedrichs des Zuieiten 1858–69. _d._ New Mount lodge, Windsor
terrace, Hampstead 23 March 1867. _Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890)
378–80; _Macmillan’s Mag. Aug. 1884 pp._ 280–97; _J. A. Froude’s
Thomas Carlyle ii_ 106–130 (1890).
NEVAY, JOHN. _b._ Forfar 28 Jany. 1792; a handloom weaver at
Forfar; wrote prose tales in various periodicals; several of
his lyrics were translated into French and German; mentioned
in Christopher North’s Noctes Ambrosianœ as John of ye Girnal;
author of A pamphlet of rhymes 1818; A second pamphlet 1821;
Emmanuel 1831, a sacred poem in nine cantos; The peasant, a poem
in nine cantos 1834; The child of nature 1835; Rosalind’s dream
1853; The fountain of the rock 1855. _d._ Forfar 4 May 1870. _J.
Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland ii_ 122–4 (1877).
NEVILL, CHARLES WILLIAM (eld. son of Richard Janion Nevill
of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire). _b._ 7 May 1816; ed. at Rugby
1830 etc.; copper smelter and colliery proprietor; sheriff of
Carmarthenshire 1868; M.P. Carmarthen district 9 Feb. 1874 to
July 1876. _d._ Westfa, Llanelly 7 June 1888.
NEVILL, HENRY WILLIAM (son of Henry Nevill, farmer). _b._
Wherwell, near Andover, Hants 28 July 1819; baker at 23 Great
Wild st. Drury Lane, London 1839–44, at 17 Sidmouth st.
Clerkenwell 1842–52, at 16 Holborn Bars 1851–9; commenced using
hot water ovens 1860; opened a large bakery at 37 Bingfield st.
Caledonian road 1855, and ultimately additional bakeries at 94
Milkwood road, Herne hill 1871, the Harrow road, Leytonstone
1883, and at Avenue terrace, Acton lane, Acton 1885; he had
58 hot water ovens and used 3,000 sacks of flour a week; had
the largest business in London, where Nevill’s household bread
became everywhere well known. _d._ Ramsgate 18 Aug. 1889, will
proved Oct. 1889, left his business, etc. to his son Robert
Nevill, and his personalty of £288,256 17s. 1d. to his three
daughters. _The Miller 2 Sept. 1889 p._ 307 _portrait_, _4 Nov.
1889 p._ 380; _The Baker’s record 24 Aug. 1889 p._ 6 _portrait_.
NEVILLE, HENRY F. _b._ March 1822; educ. Maynooth coll.;
missioner North Parish, Cork 1847; professor of logic Oct. 1850,
and of theology 1852–69, in Maynooth college; D.D.; accompanied
Dr. Moriarty to Rome as his theologian; created Monsignor by the
Pope; minister of Passage and Monkstown 1870, and canon of Cork;
parish priest of St. Finn Bars, dean and vicar general of Cork
March 1875 to death; rector of Roman catholic univ. Dublin 1879;
author of A few comments on Mr. Gladstone’s Expostulation, with
some remarks on Vaticanism, 3 ed. 1875. _d._ Cork 15 Dec. 1889.
_bur._ Blackrock graveyard 17 Dec. _The Cork Examiner 16 Dec.
1889 p._ 2, _18 Dec. p._ 2; _The Tablet 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 999.