_d._ Hampstead 1 Oct. 1808). _bapt._ at St. Sepulchre’s church,
London 8 July 1786; employed under sir Robert Smirke in the
erection of Covent Garden theatre 1809, and at the general post
office 1823–9; one of the three surveyors in the commission of
sewers for Kent and Surrey about 1815; designed R.C. church of
St. Mary, Blomfield st. Moorfields, London 1817–20, the school
for the blind in St. George’s fields, Southwark 1834–8, and St.
Olave’s girls’ school, Maze road, Southwark 1839–40; clerk of
the Bridge house estates; an original fellow of Institute of
British architects 1834; F.S.A. 1830–49; his collection of the
antiquities found in and near London, was sold by auction at
Sotheby’s 1848; retired from practice 1851. _d._ at house of his
son-in-law Dr. Alexander Spiers at Passy, near Paris 3 Jany.
1859.
NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (eld. child of John Newman, partner in bank
of Ramsbottoms, Newman, Ramsbottom and co. 72 Lombard street,
London). _b._ Old Broad st. London 21 Feb. 1801; ed. at Dr.
Nicholas’s school, Ealing 1808–16; entered at Trin. coll.
Oxf. 14 Dec. 1816, scholar 1818; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, B.D.
1836; student at Lincoln’s inn 1819; fellow of Oriel coll. 12
April 1822, tutor 1826–32; C. of St. Clement’s ch. Oxford 13
June 1824; vice-principal of Alban Hall, Oxford March 1825–6;
one of the preachers at Whitehall 1827; V. of St. Mary’s,
Oxford 14 March 1828, resigned 18 Sept. 1843; a select univ.
preacher 1831–2; began the Tracts for the times Sept. 1833,
and eventually wrote 29 of the series; editor of The British
Critic 1838 to July 1840; published Tract 90 1841; withdrew
from Oxford 1841, resided at Littlemore monastery 1841–4;
received into Church of Rome by Father Dominic the Passionist at
Littlemore 9 Oct. 1845; quitted Oxford 23 Feb. 1846; ordained
priest and received degree of doctor of divinity at Rome 30 May
1847; established the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Alcester
st. Birmingham 1848, it was subsequently removed to Edgbaston;
founded the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 24 and 25 King William
st. Strand, London, opened 31 May 1849, where he delivered his
Lectures on Anglican difficulties; fined £100 by Mr. Justice
Coleridge for libelling Dr. Achilli 23 Jany. 1853, his costs
of £14,000 were defrayed by public subscription; rector of the
Catholic university, Dublin 1854–8, which proved a failure;
honorary fellow of Trin. coll. Oxf. 28 Dec. 1877; created
cardinal of the title of St. George in Velabro at Rome 12 May
1879; author of Lyra Apostolica 1836, 3 ed. 1866; Parochial
sermons, 6 vols. 1834–42; Lectures on justification 1838, 4 ed.
1885; An essay on the development of Christian doctrine 1845,
3 ed. 1878; Apologia pro vita sua 1864, 3 ed. 1873; The dream
of Gerontius 1866, 23 ed. 1888; wrote upwards of 70 works,
besides editing many others; to some of his publications very
numerous printed replies were made; an edition of his works in
36 volumes was printed 1868–81. _d._ the Oratory, Edgbaston 11
Aug. 1890. _bur._ at Rednal, busts by Westmacott and Woolner, a
statue is to be erected by public subscription in front of the
London oratory in the Brompton road. _J. H. Newman’s Apologia
pro vita sua_ (1864); _Anne Mozley’s Letters and correspondence
of J. H. Newman_, 2 _vols._ 1891; _R. W. Church’s The Oxford
movement_ (1891) 5 _et seq._; _Illust. Review iii_ 577–85 (1872)
_portrait_; _R. H. Hutton’s Cardinal Newman_ (1891) _portrait_;
_T. Mozley’s Reminiscences_, 2 _vols._ (1882) _passim_; _C. K.
Paul’s Biographical sketches_ (1883) 171–224; _Memoir of J. R.
Hope-Scott_, 2 _vols._ (1884) _passim_; _Edgbastonia iv_ 65–69
(1884) _portrait_; _The Lamp ii_ 303 (1851) _portrait_; _Graphic
xxii_ 497 (1880) _portrait_; _I.L.N. v_ 45 (1844) _portrait_,
_lxxiv_ 456 (1879) _portrait_, _19 Oct. 1889 full page portrait_.
NOTE.--He is described in Maude, or the Anglican sister of mercy, by
Miss Elizabeth Jane Whately 1869, under the name of Dr. Oldacre.
NEWMAN, SIR LYDSTON, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Robert William
Newman, 1 bart., M.P. 1776–1848). _b._ Sandridge, Devon 14 Nov.
1823; ensign 72 Highlanders 28 March 1844, captain 19 July
1850, served at Gibraltar and in West Indies; capt. 7 hussars
17 June 1851, sold out 9 May 1856, served in the Crimea 1854–5;
sheriff of Devon 1871; succeeded his brother sir R. Newman, who
fell at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; kept race horses from 1856; had
a large breeding establishment at Mamhead 1857–68, had annual
sales in June when he obtained good prices; bought Gemma di
Vergy for 1,010 guineas. _d._ Mamhead, near Exeter 29 Dec. 1892.
_Biograph iii_ 220–4 (1880); _Baily’s Mag. ix_ 325–6 (1864)
_portrait_; _lix_ 140 (1893).
NEWMAN, WILLIAM ABIAH (eld. son of James Newman). _b._ St.
Pancras, London 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838,
M.A. 1842; M.A. Oxford 1847, B.D. and D.D. 7 June 1855; C. of
St. George’s, Wolverhampton 1840–54; C. of Collegiate church,
Wolverhampton 1854; chaplain Wolverhampton general hospital;
dean of Capetown 1851–8; special preacher for the S.P.G. 1856;
C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1858–9; edited South African
magazine 1850–52; author of The martyrs, the dreams, and other
poems, Wolverhampton 1847; The gospel of Christ exemplified in
the writings of Paul 1848; A lecture on the Cape of Good Hope
1856; St. Peter’s church, Wolverhampton, an address 1857. _d._
Hastings 7 Feb. 1864. _Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_
(1894) 327.
NEWMARCH, WILLIAM. _b._ Thirsk, Yorkshire 28 Jany. 1820; second
cashier in bank of Leatham, Tew, & Co. of Wakefield 1843–6;
second officer of London branch of the Agra bank 1846–51; joined
the staff of the Morning Chronicle about 1846; secretary of the
Globe insurance co. 1851; manager in bank of Glyn, Mills, & co.
1862–81; secretary of the Statistical society 1862–9, edited
the Journal for five years, president 1869; secretary of the
Political economy club some years; gave evidence before select
committee on the Bank acts 1857; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author
of The new supplies of gold 1853; On the loans raised by Mr.
Pitt during the first French war 1793–1801, 1855; A history of
prices and of the state of the circulation during the nine years
1848–56, 1857, translated into German; The political perils of
1859, 1859. _d._ 3 Sulyarde terrace, Torquay 23 March 1882.
_bur._ Norwood 27 March, the Newmarch professorship of economic
science and statistics at University college, London was founded
in his memory. _Journal of Statistical Society_ (1882) 115–9,
209, 284, 333, 389, 397, 519–21; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv p.
xvii_ (1883).
NEWNHAM, WILLIAM (son of a general medical practitioner). _b._
Farnham, Surrey 1 Nov. 1790; studied at Guy’s hospital and in
Paris; pupil of sir Astley Cooper; practised at Farnham to 1856;
an early member of Provincial medical and surgical assoc. 1836,
a trustee of its benevolent fund and general manager 1847–55;
author of A tribute of sympathy addressed to mourners 1817, 8
ed. 1842; An essay on inversio uteri 1818; The principles of
physical, intellectual, moral, and religious education, 2 vols.
1827; Essay on superstition 1830; Essay on disorders incident to
literary men 1836; Human magnetism, its claims to dispassionate
inquiry 1845. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 24 Oct. 1865.
NEWPORT, GEORGE (son of a wheelwright). b. Canterbury 4 July
1803; curator of Mr. Masters’s natural history museum; entered
London univ. 16 Jany. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1835, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843;
house surgeon to Chichester infirmary April 1835 to Jany. 1837;
practised in London 1837; received royal medal of Royal Society
for his paper, printed in Philosophical Transactions 1851,
pp. 169–242, entitled On the impregnation of the ovum in the
amphibia; president of Entomological Soc. 1844–5; F.R.S. 26
March 1846, member of council to death; F.L.S. 1847; granted
civil list pension of £100 a year 16 Nov. 1847; author of
Observations on the anatomy, habits, and economy of Athalia
Centifoliæ, the saw-fly of the turnip 1838; Catalogue of
Myriapoda in the British Museum 1856. _d._ 55 Cambridge st. Hyde
park, London 7 April 1854. _Proc. of Royal Soc. vii_ 278–85
(1855); _Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii_ 309–12 (1855).
NEWSOME, TIMOTHY (brother of James Newsome, circus proprietor).
_b._ 1813; a lion tamer of great courage and nerve; served with
Hilton, Manders, Wombwell, Batty, Newsome and other menagerie
proprietors; received 25 wounds in an encounter with a lion
at Middleton, near Manchester, when he killed the lion with a
stroke from the butt end of a musket; his body was quite scarred
with the wounds he had received in combats with wild animals;
his wife, also a lion tamer, _d._ 1874, and was _bur._ Bury,
Lincolnshire; he _d._ Preston, North Shields March 1890. _bur._
Preston cemetery 25 March.
NEWSON, SAMUEL. _b._ 1816; a private in the army, served
in the Crimea; a hawker of fish; a street itinerant in the
neighbourhood of Shepherd’s market and other localities,
who went about with a wooden sword reciting passages from
Shakespeare, chiefly from Richard iii and Romeo and Juliet;
generally called Richard the Third. _run over_ by a Hansom
cab in Piccadilly, London 28 March 1880, on being taken to St.
George’s hospital was found to be dead. _The Times 10 April 1880
p._ 12.
NEWTON, ADELAIDE LEAPER. _b._ Derby 1 March 1824; author of The
song of Solomon compared with other parts of scripture 1850; The
epistle to the Hebrews compared with the old testament 1854; The
heavenly life, select writings of A. L. Newton 1856; Sabbath
hours 1862; The eternal purposes of God 1868. _d._ 26 April
1854. _A memoir of A. L. Newton_, _By Rev. John Baillie_, _2
ed._ (1856) _portrait_.
NEWTON, ALFRED PIZZI. _b._ Essex 1830; painted water-colour
pictures in the highlands of Scotland; selected by the queen
to paint a picture as a wedding gift to the princess royal
1858; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours
1 March 1858, member 24 March 1879; exhibited 4 landscapes
at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1855–9; his best known pictures
are Mountain gloom 1860, The Mountain pass 1880, and Shetland
desolation 1882. _d._ at house of his father-in-law Edward Wylie
14 Rock park, Rockferry, Liverpool 9 Sept. 1883. _I.L.N. 27 Oct.
1883 p._ 405 _portrait_.
NEWTON, ANN MARY (dau. of Joseph Severn, painter, _d._ Rome 2
Aug. 1879). _b._ Rome 29 June 1832; studied under Ary Scheffer
in Paris; painted many portraits in England; exhibited 7
portraits at the R.A. 1863–5; _m._ 27 April 1861 Sir Charles
Thomas Newton 1816–94; made many drawings of the antiquities
at the British Museum for her husband’s books and lectures;
made many sketches in Greece and Asia Minor. _d._ 37 Gower st.
Bedford sq. London 2 Jany. 1866.
NEWTON, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (son of rev. Newton Dickinson Hand
Newton, V. of Bredwardine, Hereford, _d._ 1853). _b._ 1816; ed.
at Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.C.L.
1875; LL.D. Cambridge and Ph.D. Strasburg 1879; Assistant in
department of antiquities, British Museum May 1840 to Jany.
1852; vice consul at Mytilene 24 Jany. 1852; acting consul at
Rhodes April 1852 to Jany. 1853; superintended excavations
at Budrum and Cape Crio April 1856 to April 1859, discovered
the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus; consul at Rome 10 June
1859 to 16 Jany. 1861; head of department of Greek and Roman
antiquities in British Museum 17 Jany. 1861, resigned Dec.
1885; purchased for the Museum 1874 the collection of gems of
the Duc de Blacus for £48,000, also the collection of bronzes,
vases, &c. of Alexandro Castellani; antiquary to the Royal
academy; corresponding member of the French institute; hon.
fell. of Worcester coll. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1874; C.B. 16 Nov. 1875,
K.C.B. 21 June 1887; presided at nearly all the meetings of the
Hellenic Society 1879–84; the first professor of archæology in
Univ. coll. London July 1880, resigned 1889; author of Notes
on the sculptures at Wilton house, privately printed 1849; A
history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchida,
2 vols. 1862; Travels and discoveries in the Levant, 2 vols.
1865; Essays on art and archæology 1880; translated Panofka’s
Manners and customs of the Greeks 1849; edited The collection
of ancient Greek inscriptions in the British museum 1874. _d._
Westgate-on-Sea, Kent 28 Nov. 1894. _National Review Jany. 1895
pp._ 616–27; _I.L.N. 8 Dec. 1894 p._ 700 _portrait_; _Times 30
Nov. 1894 p._ 10.
NEWTON, HORACE PARKER (3 son of Wm. Newton of Elveden, Suffolk).
_b._ 29 Oct. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 11 Jany. 1843, col. 4 Feb.
1874; served in Crimean war 1854–6; commanded R.A. in Western
district 1876–81; M.G. 13 Feb. 1881; placed on retired list with
hon. rank of L.G. 1 Feb. 1882. _d._ London 23 Sept. 1890.
NEWTON, RICHARD. _b._ Liverpool 25 July 1813; graduated at univ.
of Pennsylvania 1836, and at general theological seminary, New
York 1839; R. of Holy Trinity ch., West Chester 1839; R. of St.
Paul’s ch., Philadelphia 1840–62; R. of ch. of the Epiphany,
Philadelphia 1862–81; R. of ch. of the Covenant, Philadelphia
1881 to death; D.D. Kenyon college, Ohio 1862; his sermons for
children have been translated into French, German, Arabic,
and other languages; author of The giants and how to fight
them 1861, 9 ed. 1881; Rills from the fountain of life 1860,
6 ed. 1877; The king’s highway 1861; 5 ed. 1878; Bible jewels
1868, 3 ed. 1877, Nature’s mighty wonders 1871, 2 ed. 1877.
_d._ Philadelphia 25 May 1887. _R. Newton’s The heath in the
wilderness, to which is added the story of his life by W. W.
N._, _New York_ (1888).
NEWTON, ROBERT (4 son of Francis Newton, farmer 1732–1816).
_b._ Roxby, north riding of Yorkshire 8 Sept. 1780; preached
his first sermon 1798; Wesleyan minister in London 1812–4, at
Liverpool 1817–20, 1826–32 and 1850–2, at Manchester 1820–6,
1832–5 and 1841–7, at Leeds 1835–41, and at Stockport 1847–50;
gave his services during the week to the rural districts,
travelling from six to eight thousand miles a year on preaching
tours; president of the Wesleyan conference 1824, 1832, 1840 and
1848, secretary of the conference 19 times; visited Ireland 1822
for first time, and America 1839; created D.D. by an American
univ. 1839; author of Memoirs of the late Mr. Francis Newton,
Wakefield 1817; Sermons on special and ordinary occasions,
edited by J. H. Rigg 1856. _d._ Easingwold, near York 30
April 1854. _T. Jackson’s Life of Rev. Robert Newton_ (1855)
_portrait_; _A. Stevens’s History of methodism ii_ 364–8, 442,
610, 647 (1873–4) _portrait_; _G. Smales’s Whitby authors_
(1867) 129–41; _The lamps of the temple_, _3 ed._ (1856) 269–81;
_The Pulpit v_ (1826) _portrait_; _J. Evans’ Lancashire authors_
(1850) 189–93.
NEWTON, THOMAS DUNCOMBE (son of John Newton of the customs
house, Plymouth). _b._ Weymouth 1799; educ. Totnes gram. sch.;
member of Plymouth glee and madrigal club; a founder of The
Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Roger, sacristan 17
May 1829; friend of Charles Mathews. _d._ 5 West Hoe terrace,
Plymouth 1869. _Wrights’ The Blue Friars_ (1889) 141, 217–18
_portrait_.
NEWTON, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Newton of Chancery lane, London,
globe maker). _b._ London 1786; globe maker, land surveyor, and
draftsman at 66 Chancery lane, London, afterwards patent agent
at same address to death; established London Journal of arts and
sciences 1820, edited it to his death; introduced many valuable
improvements into manufacture of globes and projection of maps;
A.I.C.E. 1837; Associate of British archæological association
1846, contributed papers to the Journal; author of Letters
and suggestions upon the amendment of the patent laws 1835; A
display of heraldry 1846; London in the olden time 1855. _d._
Clarence house, Herne Bay 10 July 1861. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxi_ 593 (1862); _Journal of British Archæol.
Assoc. xviii_ 359–60 (1862).
NEWTON, WILLIAM. Resided at 35 Arbour sq. Stepney, London;
member of metropolitan board of works for Mile End Old Town 1862
to death. _d._ 41 Stepney Green, London 9 March 1876.
NEWTON, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ about 1789; lieutenant 1 foot 23
Aug. 1804; captain 64 foot 25 June 1808; captain 62 foot 29
June 1815, placed on h.p. 25 May 1817; major in the army 27
May 1825, placed on h.p. 11 May 1826; lieut. col. in the army
28 June 1838; major royal Canadian rifle regiment 16 July 1841,
lieut. col. 18 Dec. 1845, sold out 9 Dec. 1849; K.H. 1836. _d._
1874.
NEWTON, SIR WILLIAM JOHN (son of James Newton the engraver).
_b._ London 1785; engraved a few plates; became a
miniature-painter; exhibited 343 miniatures at the R.A. 1808–63;
miniature-painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and queen Adelaide 1831,
and to Victoria 1837–58; knighted by the queen at St. James’s
palace 19 July 1837; invented a plan for joining several pieces
of ivory to form a large surface; his three large miniatures The
coronation of the queen 1838, The marriage of the queen 1840,
and The christening of the prince of Wales 1842, were lent to
the Victorian exhibition at the New gallery 1892; many of his
portraits were engraved; a collection of his works was sold at
Christie’s 23 June 1890. _d._ 6 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park,
London 22 Jany. 1869.
NEWTON, WILLIAM SAMUEL. _b._ 16 Aug. 1816; ensign Coldstream
guards 5 Dec. 1834, lieut. col. 13 Dec. 1860 to 2 July 1861;
served in the Crimean campaign Oct. 1854 to April 1855;
commanded at Malta 1868–70, at Dublin 1870–72; col. 82 foot 4
March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list
1 July 1881. _d._ Eastbourne 16 Oct. 1889.
NIAS, SIR JOSEPH (3 son of Joseph Nias, ship insurance broker).
_b._ London 2 April 1793; entered navy 19 Nov. 1807; served in
W. E. Parry’s three expeditions to the Arctic regions 1818–23;
first lieutenant of the Asia at battle of Navarino 7 Sept. 1829,
captain 8 July 1835; captain of the Herald, frigate in the East
Indies 1838–43, served at capture of Canton; commanded the
Ordinary at Devonport 1850–3; granted good service pension 12
Jany. 1854; superintendent of victualling yard and hospital at
Plymouth 2 Nov. 1854 to 13 Nov. 1856; R.A. 14 Feb. 1857, V.A.
12 Sept. 1863, retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867; C.B. 29 June 1841,
K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 56 Montagu sq. London 17 Dec. 1879.
NIBLO, WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1789; went to New York, where he
established a hotel and coffee-house; proprietor of Niblo’s
Garden, New York 1829; purchased the library of Dr. Francis L.
Hawks and presented it to New York historical society; left a
library to the New York Young men’s christian association. _d._
New York 21 Aug. 1875.
NICHOL, JAMES. _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire 1806; publisher
in Edinburgh 1859 to death. _d._ Edinburgh 26 April 1866.
_Bookseller May 1866 p._ 481.
NICHOL, JOHN (only son of the succeeding). _b._ Montrose,
Forfarshire 8 Sept. 1833; ed. in univ. of Glasgow 1848–55, and
at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1855–9; B.A. Oxford 1859, M.A. 1874; LL.D.
St. Andrews 1873, student of Gray’s Inn 12 Nov. 1859; professor
of English literature in univ. of Glasgow 1861, resigned 1889; a
private tutor at Oxford; lectured especially to ladies’ classes
in Scotland and England; author of Fragments of criticism 1860;
Hannibal, a classical drama 1872; Tables of European literature
and history A.D. 200–1876, 1876, 5 ed. 1888; The death of
Themistocles and other poems 1881; American literature, an
historical review 1882; Lord Bacon’s Life and philosophy, 2
vols. 1887–9. _d._ 11 Stafford terrace, Kensington, London 11
Oct. 1894.
NICHOL, JOHN PRINGLE (eld. son of John Nichol, gentleman
farmer). _b._ Huntly Hill, near Brechin, Forfarshire 13 Jany.
1804; ed. at King’s college, Aberdeen; licensed as a preacher
before he came of age; head master of the Hawick gr. sch.;
editor of the Fife Herald; head master of Cupar academy; rector
of Montrose academy 1827–34; regius professor of astronomy in
univ. of Glasgow 1836 to death, procured transference of the
Glasgow observatory from the college grounds to its present
site at Dowanhill 1840; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1837; F.R.A.S.;
F.R.S. Edinb. 1836; author of Views of the architecture of the
heavens 1837, 9 ed. 1868; Phenomena of the solar system 1838;
The system of the world 1846, 2 ed. 1848; The stellar universe
1847; The planetary system 1848; The planet Neptune 1855; A
cyclopædia of the physical sciences 1857; translated Willm’s
Education of the people 1847; one of the editors of Mackenzie’s
Imperial dictionary of biography 1857. _d._ Glenburn house, near
Rothesay, Buteshire 19 Sept. 1859. _Maclehose’s Hundred, Glasgow
men ii_ 249–52 (1886) _portrait_; _G. Gilfillan’s A second
gallery of literary portraits_ (1850) 231–55; _C. Mackay’s Forty
years’ recollections i_ 313–24 (1877).
NICHOLAS, RICHARD GRIFFIN. _b._ 23 Jany. 1843; cornet 3 dragoon
guards 18 Feb. 1862, sold out 3 April 1866; served in the ranks
5 years and 9 months; riding master 4 dragoon guards 13 April
1872; lieut. 1 dragoon guards 14 Feb. 1874, adjutant 1874–81;
captain 5 lancers 15 Oct. 1881; captain 1 dragoon guards 1
April 1882 to death. _d._ Canterbury 23 Jany. 1884. _bur._ St.
Thomas’s hill cemet. 26 Jany.
NICHOLAS, THOMAS. _b._ near Treffgarne chapel, Solva,
Pembrokeshire 1820; ed. at Lancashire college, Manchester and in
Germany, where he took degree of Ph.D.; became a Presbyterian
minister; professor of biblical literature and mental and moral
science at Presbyterian college, Carmarthen 1856, resigned
1863 and settled in London; one of promoters of a scheme for
the furtherance of higher education in Wales on unsectarian
principles, the University college of Wales was founded at
Aberystwith 1867, one of the governors, drew out a new scheme
of education; author of Middle and high class schools and
university education for Wales 1863; Pedigree of the English
people 1868, 5 ed. 1878; Annals and antiquities of the counties
and county families of Wales, 2 vols. 1872; History and
antiquities of the county of Glamorgan and its families 1874.
_d._ 156 Cromwell road, London 14 May 1879. _Athenæum 24 May
1879 p._ 662.
NICHOLAS, TRESSILIAN GEORGE (5 son of George Nicholas of St.
George’s, Westminster). matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 25 April
1839, aged 17; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading
1845–6; P.C. of West Molesey, Surrey 1846–59; V. of Lower
Halstow, Kent 1859–63; V. of West Molesey 1863 to death; author
of Poems 1851; Sermon before the lord mayor and sheriffs of
London 1858. _d._ West Molesey vicarage 23 Jany. 1891.
NICHOLAY, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Furrier to the queen and royal family
at 82 Oxford st. London to death; member of Metropolitan board
of works for St. Marylebone 1856 to death. _d._ 82 Oxford st.
London 20 Nov. 1873.
NICHOLDS, JOSEPH. _b._ near Birmingham; wrote three oratorios,
one of which, Babylon, was published posthumously, the others,
Miriam and The Redemption are still in manuscript; published
Sacred music, a selection of psalm and hymn tunes 1820. _d._
Sedgeley, near Dudley 18 Feb. 1860.
NICHOLETTS, GILBERT (1 son of John Nicholetts of South
Petherton, Somerset). _b._ 13 July 1826; educ. Rugby; lieut. 1
Bombay fusiliers 27 July 1848; adjutant to 1 Baluchis regiment
1854; served with 1 Sind horse in Persian war 1856, Persian
medal and clasp; with 1 Baluchis regiment during Indian mutiny
1857–8, and was present in several actions; at the attack on
Rampur Kussia succeeded to temporary command of the regiment
and held it throughout the campaign; second in command of 1
Baluchis regiment 16 Sept. 1858 to 12 Feb. 1867; commandant
of 2 Baluchis regiment 12 Feb. 1867 to death; lieut. col.
Bombay staff corps 27 July 1874 to death; served in Afghan
campaign 1878–9. _d._ Kokaran, Afghanistan 18 July 1879. _S. H.
Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_ (1882) 146–7 _portrait_.
NICHOLL, FREDERICK ILTID. _b._ 1815; admitted solicitor 1840;
practised at 18 Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1844, afterwards
at Howard st. Strand to death; member of council of Incorporated
law society 28 Nov. 1861, retired 1867; F.S.A. 30 May 1872. _d._
120 Harley st. London 25 Feb. 1893.
NICHOLL, GEORGE WHITLOCK (2 son of Iltyd Nicholl of The Ham,
Cowbridge, Glamorganshire 1785–1871). _b._ 2 Feb. 1816;
barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1840; recorder of Usk Oct. 1861 to
death; constable of the castle of Llanblethian. _d._ 1889.