at Henry Butter’s school, Islington; apprenticed to a pawnbroker
1821–4; employed by various pawnbrokers until 1830; a jeweller
at 99 Quadrant, Regent st. about March 1830, became insolvent
Nov. 1831; kept a cigar shop Warwick st. Regent st.; a wine
merchant in Leicester place, bankrupt 22 April 1836; edited
a weekly paper of fast life, entitled The Town 156 numbers 3
June 1837 to 23 May 1840; started with Joseph Last and Charles
Pitcher The Crown, a weekly paper supporting the beer-sellers,
which ran to 42 numbers 28 June 1838 to 14 April 1839; opened
with T. B. Simpson The Garrick’s head and Town hotel 27 Bow st.
Covent Garden 1841, where he established 8 March 1841 the Judge
and jury society, over which he presided as ‘The Lord Chief
Baron’; gave a three days’ fête at Cremorne Gardens 31 July and
1–2 Aug. 1843, and another fête at Easter 1844; had refreshment
booths on race courses and dancing booths at fairs; removed the
Judge and jury society to the Coal Hole tavern, Fountain court
103 Strand 1844; landlord of The Garrick’s Head 1847–9, where
he introduced the poses plastiques 1847, he presided there till
July 1851; rented the Justices’ tavern, Bow st. 1849 or 1850;
landlord of the Coal Hole tavern July 1851 to 1856; presided at
the Cider Cellar tavern 20 Maiden lane, Covent Garden 16 Jany.
1858 to death; was insolvent 6 Oct. 1849 and again 23 Feb. 1856;
proprietor and editor of Illustrated London Life 25 numbers
1843; author of Boxing, with a chronology of the ring 1837;
Cockney adventures 1838; Owen Swift’s Handbook of boxing 1840
anon; Miscellaneous writings of the lord chief baron, in monthly
numbers, part 1 May 1849 with portrait; Nicholson’s Noctes,
or nights and sights of London, 11 numbers 1852; Dombey and
daughter, a moral fiction 1858. _d._ Gordon tavern, 3 Piazza,
Covent Garden, London 18 May 1861. _bur._ Brompton cemet.
22 May. _The lord chief baron Nicholson, an autobiography_
(1860) _portrait_; _C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces_ (1891) 103–8
_portrait_; _Notes and Queries vi_ 477 (1870), _vii_ 18, 286,
327 (1871), _iii_ 3–5 (1893); _Vizetelly’s Glances back i_
168–70 (1893); _The Era 26 May 1861 p._ 7.
NOTE.--Views of the Judge and Jury club are in The Bachelor’s guide
to life in London, p. 8, and in The Illust. Sporting News 21 May
1864, pp. 129, 133. A view of the Garrick’s Head booth at Epsom is
in _Illustrated London Life_ 28 May 1843, p. 126, and a view of
Nicholson’s Parlour at the Garrick’s Head is in the same paper 11 June
p. 161.
The last scene of Frank Talfourd’s burlesque Shylock, produced at
Olympic theatre 4 July 1853, represented the Judge and Jury society,
in which Charles Bender, made up like Nicholson, opened the proceedings
by calling ‘Waiter a glass of brandy and water and & cigar.’ The
Society is referred to in R. H. Barham’s Ingoldsby Legends, 18 ed. 1860
in The Ghost, vol. ii, p. 296 as follows--
It more resembled one of later date
And tenfold talent, as I’m told, in Bow st.,
Where kindlier souls do congregate;
And though there are who deem that same a low street,
Yet I’m assured, for frolicsome debate
And genuine humour it’s surpassed by no street,
When the ‘Chief Baron’ enters and assumes
To rule o’er mimic Thesigers and Broughams.
NICHOLSON, ROBERT LAWRANCE (only son of Robert Lawrance
Nicholson of Cambridge). Author of Lady Nell and other poems.
_d._ Neuilly, near Paris 18 March 1880.
NICHOLSON, THOMAS. _b._ Hunslet, near Leeds 1805; a wire worker
in Manchester; a self taught French scholar; gave instruction in
French at the Ancoats lyceum; wrote in magazines and newspapers;
author of Visions of the muse, poems, and the Gallic lovers,
a tale 1828; A peal for the people 1849; The warehouse boy
of Manchester 1852; The thunderstorm 1857; The miser’s will,
MS. 1863; some of his poems are in John Harland’s Lancashire
Lyrics 1866, and others are in Gems of thought. _d._ Woodhouse,
Lancashire Dec. 1863. _R. W. Proctor’s Memorials of bygone
Manchester_ (1880) 207–9.
NICHOLSON, THOMAS. _b._ 12 March 1777; solicitor at Hertford
1803–24; town clerk of Hertford; under-sheriff for Herts.
1820–4; a barrister in Tasmania and comr. for investigating
claims to grants of land. _d._ Hawkswell, near Bedale, Yorkshire
9 Sept. 1878. _Solicitors’ Journal 21 Sept. 1878 p._ 888.
NICHOLSON, THOMAS WILLIAM. Lieutenant 55 foot 11 Oct. 1805,
major 12 June 1839; placed on h.p. with rank of lieut. col. 28
June 1839; served in the campaign of 1814 in Holland, severely
wounded at storming of Bergen-op-Zoom; lieut. col. 88 foot 31
Dec. 1841, but sold out same day; K.H. 1835. _d._ 1883.
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (son of Miles Nicholson, farmer). _b._
Tretting Mill, Lamplough, Cumberland 27 Feb. 1816; went to
Melbourne Oct. 1841, kept a grocer’s shop there, which became
the mercantile firm of W. Nicholson & Co. of Flinders street;
member of the city council for Latrobe ward 1848–52, alderman
1850, mayor 9 Nov. 1850; member for North Bourke in the
legislative council Oct. 1852; moved a resolution that any
electoral act should be based upon the principle of voting by
ballot 18 Dec. 1855, which he carried against the ministry by
eight votes; went to England 1856, became known as the ‘Father
of the ballot’; member of legislative assembly for Murray Jany.
1859, and for Sandridge Aug. 1859; chief secretary 27 Oct. 1859
to 26 Nov. 1860; settled the land question by the Land act of
1860; chairman of Melbourne chamber of commerce 1859. _d._ St.
Hilda, Melbourne 10 March 1865, portrait in council chamber of
Melbourne town-hall. _Heaton’s Australian dictionary_ (1879)
153, _part ii_ 158.
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM ADAMS (son of James Nicholson, a carpenter).
_b._ Southwell, Notts. 8 Aug. 1803; articled to J. B. Papworth
of London, architect July 1821–4; architect at Lincoln 1828
to death; partner with Goddard 1839–46; designed the churches
at Glandford-Brigg, at Wragby, and at Kirmond; restored many
churches; designed Worsborough hall, Yorkshire, the castle
of Bayons manor, and Elkington hall near Louth; designed the
town-hall at Mansfield; superintended rebuilding of village of
Blankney, near Lincoln, erected the Wesleyan chapel, Lincoln
1837, and the corn exchange 1847; F.R.I.B.A. _d._ Boston,
Lincs. 8 April 1853. _bur._ churchyard of St. Swithin, Lincoln.
_Dictionary of architecture vi_ 29 (1881).
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM NORRIS (eld. son of Isaac Nicholson of
Clapham common, Surrey). _b._ 1815; ed. at Charterhouse and
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; rowed in the first
match against the Leander club 9 June 1837, and again in 1844;
barrister L.I. 11 June 1841; a visitor in lunacy 1860 to 1877;
master in lunacy, with salary of £2,000, 1877 to death; an
active member of Marylebone cricket club; author of A statement
of the case of the deposed Rajah of Sattara 1845. _d._ 43
Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 17 Jany. 1889. _Law Times
23 Feb. 1889 p._ 322.
NICKINSON, JOHN (son of a Chelsea pensioner). _b._ London
1808; a drummer boy in 24 foot 1823, a sergeant 1825, bought
his discharge 1830; first appeared on the stage at Albany, New
York 6 Oct. 1830; played engagements at the Franklin, Park, and
Olympic theatres, New York; the original Mr. Dombey in John
Brougham’s play Dombey and Son at Burton’s theatre, New York
1848; played Haversac in Napoleon’s Old Guard, Monsieur Jacques,
and other character parts in the country; went to Canada with
a company of his own 1852; lessee of the royal Lyceum theatre,
Toronto 1852–8; stage manager at Pike’s opera house Cincinnati
to death. _d._ suddenly in a drug store at Cincinnati 9 Feb.
1864. _H. P. Phelps’s Players of a century_, _Albany_ (1880)
149, 204, 206, 241, 257, 259.
NICKLE, SIR ROBERT (son of Robert Nicholl of the 17 dragoons,
who changed his name to Nickle). _b._ at sea 12 Aug. 1786;
ensign loyal Durham fencibles 16 Dec. 1798; ensign 60 foot 22
Jany. 1801; ensign 15 foot 19 May 1801, lieut. 26 Jany. 1802;
lieut. 8 garrison brigade 1803; lieut. 88 foot 4 Aug. 1804,
major 28 Nov. 1822; led the forlorn hope at Buenos Ayres 7 July
1807, when severely wounded; served through the Peninsular war,
present at 9 battles, severely wounded at Toulouse; served in
the American war 1814; lieut. col. 36 foot 15 June 1830 to 22
Aug. 1834; acting governor of St. Christopher 14 July 1832 to
March 1833; served in Canadian rebellion 1838, when he raised
several volunteer forces; colonel on h.p. 29 Aug. 1843; M.G.
11 Nov. 1851; commanded the forces in Australia 1853 to death;
K.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. _d._
Jolimont, Melbourne 26 May 1855.
NICOL, EMMA (eld. dau. of Mrs. Nicol, actress, who _d._ about
1834). _b._ 1801; appeared at Edinburgh as a dancer 2 May 1808;
played at the Royal or Minor theatre, Edinb. 1808–24; played
Flora in The Wonder at Drury Lane 9 Nov. 1824, acted there till
1829, then at Surrey theatre 1830–1; played old-women parts at
T.R. Edinb. 1834–59; played Mrs. Macleary in Waverley 18 Sept.
1852, and Marjory in The heart of Midlothian 4 Oct. 1852; was
the original hon. Mrs. Falconer in Ebsworth’s comedy £150,000,
1 Sept. 1854, and Matty Hepburn in Ballantine’s Gaberlunzie Man
7 June 1858; played Mrs. Major de Boots in Coyne’s Everybody’s
Friend at New Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 25 June 1859, and Queen
Elizabeth in the burlesque of Kenilworth 6 Aug. 1859; made her
last appearance 31 May 1862 as the Hostess in The Honeymoon; her
best parts were Meg in Twas I, and Miss Lucretia Mactab in The
poor gentleman. _d._ London Nov. 1877. _J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of
the Edinburgh stage_ (1888) 361, 476.
NICOL, HENRY. Philologist; author of An account of M. Gaston
Paris’ method of editing in his Vie de Saint Alexis 1874. _d._
Algiers 30 Dec. 1880.
NICOL, JAMES (son of James Nicol, minister of Traquair,
Peebleshire, and poet 1769–1819). _b._ Traquair manse 12 Aug.
1810; entered univ. of Edinb. 1825; studied geology at univs.
of Bonn and Berlin; a clerk in Geological society of London
1840, assistant secretary to the society 1847–9; professor of
geology in Queen’s college, Cork 1849–53; professor of civil
and natural history in Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen
1853–60; professor of natural history in univ. of Aberdeen
1860–78; F.G.S. 1847; F.R.S. Edinb. 1847; the first to perceive
the true relations of the rock-masses in the Highlands of
Scotland; author of Guide to the geology of Scotland 1844;
Introductory book of the sciences 1844, 9 ed. 1872; Manual
of mineralogy 1849; Elements of mineralogy 1858, 2 ed. 1873;
The geology and survey of the North of Scotland 1866, and of
18 papers on geological subjects. _d._ London 8 April 1879.
_Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvi_ 33–6 (1880).
NICOL, JAMES DYCE (only son of W. Nicol, M.D.) _b._ Stonehaven
13 Aug. 1805; partner in firm of Nicol & Co. Bombay to 1844;
M.P. Kincardineshire 17 July 1865 to death; F.R.G.S. _d._ 13
Hyde park terrace, London 16 Nov. 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_ 503 (1872).
NICOL, JOHN. _b._ Tain, Rossshire 1846; with Strahan & Co.;
manager for Isbister & Co. London, and exercising a literary
supervision over their publications; sub-editor of Contemporary
Review; while staying at Shandon homœopathic establishment
_found drowned_ in the Gaerloch, Clyde river 11 Feb. 1891.
NICOL, WILLIAM (eld. son of James Nicol, collector of customs,
Banff, Scotland). _b._ 1790; educ. Aberdeen; served in medical
service of H.E.I.C. 1810–16; a merchant at Bombay 1816;
contested Youghal 8 Aug. 1837; M.P. Dover 1859–65. _d._ 10
Ashley place, Victoria st. Westminster 28 July 1879.
NICOLAS, JOHN TOUP (eld. child of John Harris Nicolas 1758–1844,
lieutenant in the navy). _b._ Withen, near Helston, Cornwall
22 Feb. 1788; entered navy 1799; commander of the Pilot, brig
in the Mediterranean 1810–16, where he captured or destroyed
many of the enemy’s vessels; captain 26 Aug. 1815; C.B. 4 June
1815; commanded the Egeria, frigate on the Newfoundland station
1820–2, the Hercules, 74 guns on the Lisbon station 1837–9, the
Belle-Isle in the Channel and Mediterranean 1839–41, and the
Vindictive on the East India station 1841–4; R.A. 30 Dec. 1850;
superintendent of victualling yard Plymouth 1 Sept. 1847 to 5
Feb. 1850; received cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit from King
of Naples Oct. 1815, knight commander of the order April 1816;
K.H. 1 Jany. 1834; author of An inquiry into the causes which
have led to our late naval disasters 1814; A letter to rear
admiral Du Petit Thouars on the late events at Otaheite, Papeete
1843. _d._ Plymouth 1 April 1851. _bur._ St. Martin’s ch. by
Looe 4 April. _James’s Naval history v_ 257–8, 341–2 (1859);
_Marshall’s Royal naval biog. viii_ 53; _G.M. xxxv_ 665–6 (1851).
NOTE.--His son Granville Toup Nicolas _b._ 15 Aug. 1832, entered the
navy 1848, commanded the gunboat Insolent on the China station during
the Tae-ping insurrection, retired as captain 15 April 1882. _d._
Edinburgh 21 April 1894.
NICOLL, DONALD. _b._ 25 April 1820; cloth manufacturer and a
tailor at 114 Regent st. London with his brother Henry John
Nicoll 1843–69, also at 22 Cornhill 1846–69, and at Liverpool
and Manchester; wholesale clothier 1869–74; parliamentary agent
1876–85; civil engineer 1885 to death; sheriff of London and
Middlesex 1849–50; contested Frome 24 Oct. 1854; M.P. Frome
1857–59; contested Frome 3 May 1859; capt. 29 North Middlesex
volunteers 1864; the pioneer of underground telegraphy
1866; took out English and foreign patents for electric and
telegraphic conductors, awarded medals at Great Exhibition 1851,
Moscow exhibition 1872, and Vienna exhibition 1873; chairman
of Poor law amendment society; president of Engineering and
sanitary association; A.I C.E. 2 Dec. 1844; author of Election,
a dramatic piece in two acts 1880; Publicity, an essay on
advertising 1878; Health and appliances 1885; Man’s revenge:
personal reminiscences with quotations from causes célèbre 1890,
with portrait; resided at 14 Buckland crescent, Fitzjohn’s
avenue, London. _d._ Folkestone 6 Sept. 1891. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. 9 Sept. _I.L.N. xxx_ 478 (1857) _portrait_; _City
Press 9 Sept. 1891 p._ 5; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
cviii_ 411–2 (1892).
NICOLL, WILLIAM. _b._ Little Tullybeltane 1817; in a situation
at Glasgow on £40 a year; a poet, his fugitive pieces are
printed in Drummond’s Perthshire. _d._ Edinburgh 1855. _bur._
North Leith churchyard. _P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire_ (1879)
333–83.
NOTE.--His brother Robert Nicoll _b._ Little Tullybeltane 7 Jany. 1814
_d._ 1837, was also a well known poet.
NICOLLS, SIR EDWARD (son of Jonathan Nicolls, surveyor of
excise, Coleraine). _b._ Coleraine 1779; 2 lieut. R.M. 24 March
1795, with 13 volunteers captured a French armed cutter off
St. Domingo 1803; at the passage of the Dardenelles 1807; at
reduction of Anholt 1809; at attack on Fort Bowyer 1814; awarded
a pension of £250 a year 28 Dec. 1815; major 8 May 1828, placed
on h.p. 1829; major retired on full pay 15 May 1835 to death;
governor of island of Ascension; commander of island of Fernando
Po; awarded good service pension of £150 a year 30 June 1842;
general 28 Nov. 1854; K.C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ 3 Woodland’s
terrace, Shooter’s hill road, Blackheath, Kent 5 Feb. 1865.
_G.M. xviii_ 644 (1865).
NOTE.--During his services abroad he had his left leg broken and right
leg severely wounded, was shot through the body and right arm, received
a severe sabre cut in the head, was bayoneted in the chest, and lost an
eye in his 107th action, having received altogether 24 wounds.
NICOLLS, GUSTAVUS. _b._ 1780 or 1781; 2 lieut. R.E. 4 Jany.
1795, colonel 29 July 1825; colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1851
to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ at his residence, near
Southampton 1 Aug. 1860.
NICOLLS, JASPER HUME (3 son of Gustavus Nicolls of Guernsey).
Matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 2 June 1836, aged 17; B.A. 1840,
M.A. 1843, D.D. 1856; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1843–8;
principal of and professor of classics in Bishop’s college,
Lennoxville, Lower Canada 1853 to death; author of The end
and object of education, a lecture, Montreal 1857; Address to
the convocation of Bishop’s college, at its annual meeting,
Sherbrooke 1860. _d._ Aug. 1877.
NICOLSON, ALEXANDER (son of Malcolm Nicolson of Husabost in
Skye). _b._ Husabost 27 Sept. 1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb.,
B.A. 1850, hon. M.A. 1859, LL.D. 1880; one of the sub-editors
of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; editor
of Edinburgh Guardian 1855; edited the Daily Express for one
year; contributed to the Scotsman; called to Scottish bar
1860; reported law cases for the Scottish Jurist ten years,
edited it latterly; assistant comr. of education 1865 when he
produced a blue book on the Western and Northern Highlands;
sheriff substitute of Kirkcudbright 1872; comr. to inquire
into condition of the crofters 1883; sheriff substitute of
Greenock 1885–9; author of The lay of the Beanmòhr, a song of
the Sudreyar 1867; edited D. Macintosh’s A collection of Gaelic
proverbs 1881, 2 ed. 1882; Memoirs of Adam Black, M.P. 1885,
2 ed. 1885; he revised the Gaelic Scriptures for the soc. for
Promoting Christian Knowledge. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1893.
_bur._ Warriston cemet. _Verses by A. Nicolson with memoir by W.
Smith_ (1893) _portrait_; _Scottish law review ix_ 38–40; _D. H.
Edwards’s Modern Scottish poets_, _3rd series_ (1880) 417–9.
NICOLSON, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeenshire; Scott bursar of univ.
of Aberdeen; M.A. 1856; Luscombe scholar of Trinity coll.
Glenalmond Sept. 1854; chaplain to bishop Forbes of Brechin
1856–75; incumbent of St. Salvador, Dundee 1857 to death,
raised funds and built a church which cost £10,000, 1868–74,
the congregation being mostly working men; synod clerk diocese
of Brechin 1863–74; dean of Brechin 1874 to death; a member of
the school board; built a chapel and schoolroom dedicated to
St; Martin at Dundee; author of In memoriam, a sermon after the
funeral of A. P. Forbes, bishop of Brechin 1875. _d._ Dundee
25 Jany. 1889. _Church portrait journal n.s. vi_ 77 (1885)
_portrait_.
NIEMANN, EDMUND JOHN (eld. son of John Diederich Niemann, _b._
Minden, Westphalia, a member of Lloyd’s). _b._ Islington, London
1813; a clerk in Lloyd’s 1826–39; lived at High Wycombe, Bucks.
1839–48; trustee and hon. secretary of the Free Exhibition
of art, Chinese gallery, Hyde Park corner 1848; exhibited 29
landscape paintings at R.A., 45 at B.I., and 40 at Suffolk st.
1844–72; many of his pictures were exhibited at opening of
the Nottingham museum and art galleries 1878. _d._ The Glebe,
Brixton hill, Surrey 15 April 1876. _G. H. Shepherd’s Catalogue
of the pictures painted by E. J. Niemann_ (1890).
NIEUWENHUYS, CHRISTIAN JOHANNES. _b._ Belgium 1799; an art
critic 1834; formed gallery of king of Holland 1843; naturalised
in England 6 March 1846; an expert and dealer in London to
death; brought many important examples of Dutch and Flemish
paintings to England, which have enriched some of the best
collections; author of A review of the lives and works of some
of the most eminent painters 1834; Description de la galerie
des tableaux de S. M. le roi des Pays-Bas, Bruxelles 1843. _d._
Oxford lodge, Park Side, Wimbledon, Surrey 31 Jany. 1883. _Times
20 Feb. 1883 p._ 10.
NIGHTINGALE, JAMES EDWARD. F.S.A. 18 Feb. 1875; discovered
the lost china factory of Longton hall; author of Objects of
interest in the Fonthill excursion 1870; Some notice of William
Herbert, first earl of Pembroke 1878; Contributions towards
the history of early English porcelain 1881; Church plate of
the county of Dorset 1889; The church plate of the county of
Wilts 1891; resided at The Mount, Witton, Salisbury. _d._ at
the residence of his brother-in-law 16 Alfred place west, South
Kensington, London 22 Feb. 1892. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries
xiv_ 136 (1892).
NIGHTINGALE, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1827; dramatist; resided at
Liverpool; published The Liverpool year book, edited by Lee and
Nightingale 1857; Lee and Nightingale’s Telegraph guide 1858,
Number i. _d._ 13 Coverdale road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 20
Jany. 1882. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 24 Jany.
NIGHTINGALE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1799; acted as a judge of coursing
in England and Scotland during many years; judged the first
Waterloo cup 1857; retired 1860, when he was presented with a
testimonial; a very powerful man, could lift any weight, and
hold any team of horses together on the box seat; could jump the
Big Cut from the Engine at Aintree; a farmer at Skibeden, near
Skipton and a good judge of bullocks and sheep. _d._ 2 Sept.
1869, at his request a representation of a greyhound was placed
on his coffin and buried with him in Gisburn ch. yard. _Sporting
Review Oct. 1869 pp._ 242–3; _H. H. Dixon’s Field and Fern,
South_ 1865 _pp._ 14, 19, 24–6, _portrait_.
NIGHTINGALL, JOHN (son of a trainer, _d._ 1890). _b._ 1833;
apprenticed to be a jockey; with Cecil won the Cesarewitch
1868; best known as a trainer, especially of horses for the
suburban meetings; trained Shifnel, winner of the Grand
National steeple chase 1878, and Ilex, winner in 1890; trained
for lord Calthorpe, lord Rendlesham, sir Simon Lockhart, and
G. Masterman. _d._ Epsom 13 Nov. 1891. _Baily’s Mag. lvi_
425 (1891); _Illust. sp. and dr. news 21 Nov. 1891 p._ 331
_portrait_; _Man of the world 25 Nov. 1891 p._ 564 _portrait_.
NIHILL, DANIELL. _b._ 1791; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1818; M.A. 1822; P.C. of Clunbury, Salop 1820–6; government
chaplain to penitentiary, Milbank, London to 1844; P.C. of
Fording, Montgomeryshire 29 Dec. 1826–44; V. of Bridgwater,
Somerset 1844–8; R. of Fitz, near Shrewsbury 1848 to death;
author of Suggestions on the revival of ecclesiastical
assemblies in the church of England 1834, 2 ed. 1836; Prison
discipline 1839; Farmer’s guide to happiness; Inconsistency, or
why are churchgoers not communicants 1859; Pastoral guide to
confirmation; The angels, what is taught in scripture concerning
them 1852; Help to young scholars in the bible; Suggestions on
the reformation of convicts. _d._ Fitz rectory 19 July 1867.
NIMMO, ANDREW. _b._ Edinburgh 1817 or 1818; call boy at
Edinburgh theatre, afterwards actor; assistant to John Mitchell
of Bond st. London, theatrical agent to 1863; theatrical agent
at 55 Wigmore st. Cavendish sq. 1863 to death. _d._ 55 Wigmore
st. Cavendish sq. London 23 June 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 28
June. _Era 30 June 1872 p._ 9.
NIMMO, PATRICK. _b._ Dundee; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1817; served in
the East Lothian cavalry some years; practiced as a physician
at Dundee, first in partnership with Robert Stewart, M.D., then
with Alexander Douglass, afterward alone; surgeon to Dundee
royal infirmary about 1805–35; physician to Dundee lunatic
asylum about 1835 to death. _d._ Dundee 11 July 1855.
NIMMO, WILLIAM PHILIP. _b._ Edinburgh 1831; a bookseller there
Dec. 1855; a publisher there to his death; published Nimmo’s
Juvenile tales, Edinb. 1866; Nimmo’s Popular tales 1866. _d._
Minto st. Edinb. 16 April 1883.
NISBET, SIR ALEXANDER (son of Alexander Nisbet). _b._ 1790 or
1791; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1812; M.D. Edinb. 1818; M.R.C.P. London
1859; entered naval medical service 1812 and served during the
whole of the American war 1812–4, for which awarded a medal
1850; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855,
retired 1861; granted good service pension June 1865; knighted
at Windsor Castle 26 June 1873; honorary physician to the queen
1873 to death. _d._ Arley lodge, Lee, Kent 22 June 1874.
NISBET, HENRY. _b._ Laurieston, Glasgow 1818; studied at Glasgow
univ., relief divinity hall, Paisley, and Cheshunt college;
ordained united presbyterian minister July 1840; missionary
at Falelatai, Samoa 1843, at Sapapalii 1850–4; in charge of
the mission seminary at Malua Dec. 1859–67, where he prepared
various lectures, sermons, notes of scripture, &c. which he
subsequently printed in England; D.D. Glasgow univ. 1870. _d._
Malua 9 May 1876. _J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries_
(1870) 149–51.