cavalry). _b._ Kelso 3 Feb. 1785; clerk to Hugh Usher, West
India merchant, London 1803; a Sunday school teacher at the
Scotch ch., Swallow st., London 1803; a founder of the Sunday
school union 1803; collected for more than 500 charitable
institutions, the amount that passed through his hands being
£114,339 16s. 4d.; a freeman of city of London; bookseller in
Castle st. 1809; bookseller and publisher, chiefly of books of
a religious class at 21 Berners st. Oxford st.; partner with
James Murray many years, on Murray’s death (at Richmond June
1862), Mr. Watson became manager of the business; publisher
of some of Edward Irving’s books, and for a period one of his
followers; liveryman of company of stationers 1822; helped to
establish Booksellers’ provident institution 1837, president
1848; printed and distributed some religious work gratuitously;
built and endowed a church and school at Kelso; published
Catalogue of J. Nisbet’s Select theological circulating library
1832; Nisbet’s Series of tracts 1846–50, No. 1–22. _d._ 21
Berners st. London 8 Nov. 1854. _J. A. Wallace’s Lessons from
life of J. Nisbet_ (1867); _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 324–32;
_The first 50 years of the Sunday school by W. H. Watson_ (1873)
75–76.
NISBET, ROBERT PARRY. _b._ Aug. 1793; ed. at Cheam and
Haileybury coll.; entered Bengal civil service 30 April
1809; second assistant to collector of customs, Calcutta
1814; collector of Rungpore 1822; judge and magistrate 1826;
commissioner of revenue 14th division 1829; civil and session
judge, Nuddea 1837; sheriff of Wilts. 1849; M.P. Chippenham
1856–59. _d._ Southbroome house, Devizes 31 May 1882.
NISBET-HAMILTON, ROBERT ADAM (eld. son of Philip Dundas,
governor of Prince of Wales island, _d._ 8 April 1807). _b._
9 Feb. 1804; educ. St. Andrews; advocate 25 Feb. 1826; M.P.
Ipswich 1826–30, and 1835–7; M.P. Edinburgh 1831–2; M.P. North
Lincs. 1837–57; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 1 March to Dec.
1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; exchanged name of Dundas for that of
Christopher by R.L. 20 Jany. 1836, and that of Christopher for
Nisbet-Hamilton 1855; F.R.S. 18 April 1833; succeeded to estates
in Haddingtonshire through his wife lady Mary Bruce, eld. dau.
of 7 earl of Elgin. _d._ 33 Chesham place, Belgrave sq. London 9
June 1877. _Journal of jurisprudence xxi_ 401 (1877).
NISH, ANTONY. _b._ Newcastle Feb. 1831; visited the United
States 1850; joined company of John Raynor, who brought a troupe
of Christy minstrels to England 1855; organised a company of
his own 1862; visited the Cape colonies, India, and Australia;
musical director of the Christy minstrels, St. James’s hall,
London 1867 to death; composed the music of many popular songs.
_d._ London 3 Oct. 1874. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 6 Oct. _Era 11
Oct. 1874 p._ 9.
NIXON, FRANCIS RUSSELL (son of Robert Nixon, C. of Foot’s Cray,
Kent 1784–1804). _b._ 1 Aug. 1803; educ. Merchant Taylors’
school 1810–22, and St. John’s coll. Oxf., probationary fellow
1822; B.A. 1827, M.A, 1841, D.D. 1842; P.C. of Plaistow, Essex;
chaplain to British embassy at Naples 1833–5; P.C. of Sandgate,
Kent 20 Jany. 1836; V. of Ash, next Wingham Nov. 1838; one of
the six preachers in Canterbury cathedral; bishop of Tasmania
21 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1863, consecrated in Westminster abbey
24 Aug. 1842, enthroned in Hobart cath. 27 July 1843; attended
the first synod of colonial bishops held in Sydney 1857; R.
of Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 1864–5; author of The history of
Merchant Taylors’ school 1823; Lectures on the catechism of the
church of England 1843; The cruise of the Beacon, a visit to
the islands in Bass’s Straits 1857. _d._ Villa Vignole, Lago
Maggiore, North Italy 7 April 1879. _Times 12 April 1879 p._ 7.
NIXON, SAMUEL. _b._ 1803; began exhibiting sculpture at the
R.A. 1826; employed on portrait and sepulchral sculpture for
a few years from 1831; did the sculptural decorations for the
Goldsmith’s hall in Foster lane, Cheapside, London; executed
a statue of John Carpenter for the city of London school, and
one of sir John Crosby for Crosby hall, Bishopsgate street; his
chief work was the statue of Wm. IV at the end of King William
st. set up Dec. 1844; exhibited 12 works at R.A., 2 at B.I.,
and 2 at Suffolk st. 1826–46. _d._ 1 Manley place, Kennington
Common, London 2 Aug. 1854.
NIXON, THOMAS. _b._ Nottingham 4 June 1815; lace maker; his
first cricket match at Lord’s was Fast bowlers _v._ Slow bowlers
18 July 1842; a slow round-armed bowler having a twist; a
bowler at Lord’s 1851–7; proprietor of Old white house inn,
cricket ground and racquet court, Oxford 1856–60; introduced
cork pads 1841, open pads and cane handled bats 1853; invented
the balista 1862; formed a cricket ground at Chelford, Cheshire
1861, where he worked to his death. _d._ Chelford 20 July 1877.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii_ 103 (1863).
NOAD, HENRY MINCHIN (son of Humphrey Noad). _b._ Shawford, near
Frome, Somerset 22 June 1815; educ. Frome gr. sch.; lectured
on chemistry and electricity at Bath and Bristol 1836; studied
chemistry under A. W. Hofmann in the royal college of chemistry,
London 1845; professor of chemistry at St. George’s hospital
1847 to death; Ph. Doc. Giessen about 1849; consulting chemist
to the Ebbw Vale iron co., the Cwn Celyn, and Blaina and other
iron works in South Wales; instructor in chemistry at the
Panopticon in Leicester sq. London 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856;
author of A course of eight lectures on electricity, galvanism,
magnetism, and electro-magnetism 1839, 3 ed. 1849; A manual of
electricity, 2 vols. 1857; The improved induction coil 1861, 3
ed, 1868; The students text-book of electricity 1867, new ed.
1879. _d._ at residence of his son Henry Carden Noad, surgeon,
High st. Lower Norwood, Surrey 23 July 1877. _Engineer 3 Aug.
1877 pp._ 70, 76–7.
NOAKE, JOHN (son of Thomas Noake). _b._ Sherborne, Dorset 29
Nov. 1816; engaged on Berrow’s Worcester Journal at Worcester
1838, then on the Worcestershire Chronicle; sub-editor of
the Worcester Herald to about 1874; sheriff of Worcester
1878, alderman and mayor 1879; magistrate 1882; one of
hon. secretaries of Worcester Diocesan architectural and
archæological society many years, presented with a testimonial
on his retirement July 1892; author of The rambler in
Worcestershire, notes on churches and congregations 1851–4, 2
vols.; Worcester in olden times 1849; Notes and queries for
Worcestershire 1856; Worcester sects, a history of its Roman
catholics and dissenters 1861; The monastery and cathedral
of Worcester 1866; Noake’s guide to Worcestershire 1868;
Worcestershire relics 1877; Worcestershire nuggets, by an Old
Digger 1889. _d._ 2 St. Mary’s terrace, London road, Worcester
12 Sept. 1894. _bur._ Astwood road cemet. 15 Sept. _Berrow’s
Worcester Journal 15 Sept. 1894._
NOAKES, WILLIAM. Landlord of the new Opera hotel, 27 Bow st.
Covent Garden, London 1852–73, celebrated for its suppers after
the theatres, this hotel was formerly known as the Garrick’s
Head, the last night of its being open was 8 Nov. 1873; Noakes
greatly resembled Edward Wright the comedian of the Adelphi
theatre. _E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii_ 433 (1891).
NOBBS, GEORGE HUNN (son of a marquess by the dau. of an Irish
baronet). _b._ 16 Oct. 1799; served in royal navy Nov. 1811
to 1816; served on board an 18-gun ship belonging to the
patriots in South America 1816, captured by the Spaniards
and imprisoned at Callao 1817; made a lieutenant in Chilian
navy 1820 for helping to cut out Spanish frigate Esmeralda at
Callao 5 Nov. 1820; settled on Pitcairn Island 5 Nov. 1828,
succeeded John Adams as pastor and teacher of the islanders 29
March 1829; ordained priest by bishop of London and appointed
a missionary of the Society for the propagation of the gospel
Oct. and Nov, 1852; relanded on Pitcairn Island 14 May 1853;
the islanders under Nobbs removed to Norfolk Island 8 June
1856, where they were given a model constitution by sir W. T.
Denison, governor-general of the Australian colonies. _d._
The Chaplaincy, Norfolk Island 5 Nov. 1884. _A sermon in St.
Mary’s chapel, Park st. Grosvenor square on 12 Dec. 1852 by
G. H. Nobbs, with notices of Mr. Nobbs and his flock_ (1852)
_portrait_; _Lady Belcher’s Mutineers of the Bounty_ (1870) 186
_et seq._ _portrait_.
NOBLE, JAMES (2 son of Isaac Noble, who served in the British
army against the Americans, _killed_ 1778). _b._ 1774; entered
navy 1787; lieut. of the Agamemnon under Nelson 9 March 1796,
badly wounded at Loano 25 April 1796; Nelson’s flag-lieutenant
on board the Captain at battle of St. Vincent, during the battle
he boarded the San Nicolas for which he was made commander 27
Feb. 1797; commanded the sea fencibles on the coast of Sussex
March 1798 to 29 April 1802; captain 29 April 1802; retired
R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, moved to the active list 17 Aug. 1840, V.A.
9 Nov. 1846. _d._ London 24 Oct. 1851. _Autobiography of James
Noble, privately printed about 1830._
NOBLE, JOHN. _b._ Boston, Lincs. 2 May 1827; supported the
Anti-Corn law league 17 years; came to London 1859 and entered
for the bar; a founder of the Alliance national land and
building society; founded with Washington Wilks, and others the
London political union for the advocacy of manhood suffrage
1860; financial and parliamentary agent with C. F. Macdonald
1864, they promoted street railways in London, Liverpool, and
Dublin, the firm being J. Noble and Co. 1865; a founder of
the Financial reform union 1868; parliamentary secretary to
A. Brogden, M.P. for Wednesbury 1870; secretary of the County
council union 1889; lecturer to the Financial reform association
1862–5; delivered lectures on political and social subjects;
author of Arbitration and a congress of nations as a substitute
for war in the settlement of international disputes 1862; Fiscal
legislation 1842–65, 1867; Free trade, reciprocity, and the
revivers 1869; Our imports and exports 1870. _d._ London 17
Jany. 1892. _bur._ Highgate 21 Jany. _John Noble’s Facts for
politicians_ (1892), _memoir pp. iii–viii portrait_.
NOBLE, JOSEPH WILLIAM (eld. son of John Noble, V.
of Frisby-on-the-Wreake, Leics. _d._ 1840). _b._
Frisby-on-the-Wreake, 1799; L.S.A. 1819; M.R.C.S. 1820; M.B.
Cambridge 1831; physician to Leicester general infirmary to
1856; mayor of Leicester 1858; M.P. Leicester 2 May 1859 to
death. _d._ Malaga, Spain 6 Jany. 1861.
NOBLE, MATTHEW. _b._ Hackness, Yorkshire 1818; pupil in London
of John Francis, the sculptor; exhibited 100 works, chiefly
busts, at the R.A. 1845–76; executed a relievo in bronze The
bridge of sighs, and another of The dream of Eugene Aram for
the monument over Thomas Hood’s grave 1854; executed the
Wellington monument at Manchester 1856, and a marble statue of
the Prince consort nine feet high, forming part of the Albert
memorial in Albert sq. Manchester 1866; executed the statues
of sir John Franklin in Waterloo place 1866, sir James Outram
on the Victoria embankment, London, unveiled 17 Aug. 1871, of
the Queen at St. Thomas’s hospital, and of the earl of Derby
in Parliament sq. 1874. _d._ 43 Abingdon villas, Kensington 23
June 1876. _bur._ Brompton cemet. his widow Frances Mary Noble
granted civil list pension of £150, 10 March 1877. _W. Smith’s
Old Yorkshire ii_ 82–3 (1890) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 37, 38,
178, (1876) _portrait_; _Graphic xiv_ 12 (1876) _portrait_.
NOBLE, ROBERT TURLINGTON (brother of J. W. Noble, _bapt._ Frisby
9 March 1809; educ. Oakham gr. sch. 1822–7; entered Sidney
Sussex coll. Camb. Oct. 1827; B.A. 1834; migrated to Christ’s
coll.; private tutor to sir Thomas Blomfield’s sons 1831–8;
C. of Old Dalby, Leics. 1839–41; missionary at Masulipatam,
Madras 1841 to death, where he opened a native English school
for education of the upper classes 21 Nov. 1843, which was very
successful. _d._ Masulipatam 17 Oct. 1865. _J. Noble’s Memoir of
R. T. Noble_ (1867); _J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has
known_ (1874) 332–6.
NOBLE, SAMUEL (son of Edward Noble, bookseller, _d._ 1784). _b._
London 4 March 1779; apprenticed to an engraver and practised as
an architectural engraver, retired from practice 1819; became
a Swedenborgian about 1799, helped to found the Society for
printing and publishing the writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg
1810; chief editor of and principal writer in The intellectual
repository and new Jerusalem magazine 1812–40; ordained on
Whitsunday 1820; minister of the Swedenborg church in Lisle st.
Leicester square, the congregation purchased Edward Irving’s
chapel 15 Cross st. Hatton Garden about 1829, where he preached
to his death; lost his eye sight 1848; held that our Lord’s body
was not resuscitated but dissipated in the grave and replaced at
the resurrection by a new and divine frame, a great controversy
arose between the dissipationists and resuscitationists, and a
Noble Society was formed to support his position; author of The
doctrine of the scriptures respecting the divine Trinity 1821;
The plenary inspiration of the scriptures asserted 1825, 2 ed.
1856; An appeal on behalf of the views of the eternal world
and state held by the christians who believe that a new church
is signified by the New Jerusalem 1826, 3 ed. 1855; Important
doctrines of true christian religion explained 1846; The divine
law of the ten commandments explained 1848; Book of Judges,
sermons in explanation of first eleven chapters 1856; Eight
parables explained in twenty three sermons 1857. _d._ London
27 Aug. 1853. _bur._ Highgate cemet. where is monument. _S.
Noble’s An appeal_, _3 ed._ (1855), _memoir pp. v–xviii_; _W.
White’s Life of E. Swedenborg_ (1867) _i_ 230, _ii_ 613; _F. T.
Cansick’s Epitaphs_ (1872) 180–1.
NOBLE, WILLIAM BLACKMORE. _b._ June 1789; entered R.N. 18 Aug.
1803 as a volunteer; wrecked off Malta 10 Aug. 1810; mate of the
Lively and Bellona at the surrender of Vigo; saw boat service
on north coast of Spain and in the Basque Roads for which he
received a medal; present at surrender of Sebastian, medal;
commanded party placing scaling ladders at storming of Fort Erie
1814; lieut. of the Charwell schooner 27 Aug. 1814; on h.p. from
Sept. 1815; commander 18 June 1869. _d._ 16 March 1889, aged
nearly 100. _Memoirs of Capt. George M’Kinley._
NOBLE, WILLIAM HENRY (eld. son of Robert Noble, R. of Athboy,
co. Meath). _b._ Laniskea, co. Fermanagh 14 Oct. 1834; educ.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; lieut. R.A. 6
March 1856, lieut. col. 1 Nov. 1882, placed on h.p. 1 July
1885; temporary M.G. 13 Oct. 1889; associate member of the
ordnance select committee for carrying out ballistic and other
experiments in scientific gunnery 1861–8; on the staff of the
director-general of ordnance 1868, member of experimental branch
of that department at Woolwich 8 Dec 1868 to 1 April 1876;
staff officer of the field train of the Candahar field force in
the Afghan war Nov. 1878; member of the ordnance committee 1
April 1881 to 31 March 1884; superintendent of royal gunpowder
factory at Waltham abbey 1 July 1885 to death; large quantities
of prismatic gunpowder were manufactured there, he patented
this discovery 1886; the discovery of cordite is also largely
due to him; author of Useful tables, compiled for the use of
artillerymen 1874; Report of various experiments relative to the
penetration of iron armour-plates by steel shot 1886; Descent of
W. H. Noble from the blood royal of England 1889. _d._ Thrift
hall, Waltham abbey 17 May 1892. _I.L.N. 28 May 1892 p._ 651
_portrait_; _Daily Graphic 23 May 1892 p._ 4 _portrait_.
NODDALL, CORNELIUS THOMAS AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1812 or 1813; master
attendant royal Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1 April 1858
to 1 Dec. 1864; master attendant and harbour master Deptford
dockyard 1 Dec. 1864 to 14 Oct. 1867; commander 22 Feb. 1860;
retired captain 14 Oct. 1867; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ St.
Bernards, Torquay 22 June 1874.
NOEL, BAPTIST WRIOTHESLEY (youngest child of sir Gerard
Noel-Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838). _b._ Leightmount, Scotland 16
July 1798; educ. Westminster 1810–3, and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A.
1821; C. of Cossington, Leics.; minister of St. John’s chapel,
Bedford row, London 1827 to 3 Dec. 1848; his anti-corn law tract
A plea for the poor 1841 produced many replies; chaplain in
ordinary to the queen Aug. 1841–9; a founder of the Evangelical
Alliance 1846; preached at the Scottish church in Regent sq.
London 25 March 1849; took the oaths prescribed by 52 Geo. III,
cap. 155, and preached in the Weigh House chapel May 1849;
publicly rebaptised by immersion in the Baptist chapel, John
st. Bedford row 9 Aug. 1849, minister of the chapel 9 Aug. 1849
to 15 July 1868, when he was presented with a purse containing
one thousand guineas; president of the Baptist Union 1855 and
1867; author of Meditations on sickness and old age 1837; Notes
of a tour through the Midland counties of Ireland 1837; The
first five centuries of the church 1839; A plea for the poor,
showing how the repeal of the corn laws will affect the working
classes 1841, 29th thousand 1841; Christian missions to heathen
nations 1842; Sermons, 2 vols. 1859, and upwards of 50 other
works. _d._ Stanmore, Middlesex 19 Jany. 1873. _J. R. Dix’s
Pulpit portraits_ (_Boston_ 1854) 245–56; _J. E. Ritchie’s The
London pulpit_, _2 ed._ (1858) 147–54; _Pen and ink sketches_,
_2 ed._ (1847) 240–4; _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages_, _4th series_, (1860) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xv_ 141
(1849) _portrait_, _lxii_ 91, 104, 106 (1873) _portrait_;
_Graphic vii_ 99, 100 (1873) _portrait_.
NOEL, GERARD THOMAS (brother of preceding). _b._ 2 Dec. 1782;
educ. Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; C. of
Radwell, Herts.; C. of Rainham, Essex; hon. canon of Winchester
13 March 1834 to death; V. of Romsey, Hants. 30 Nov. 1840
to death, restored the parish church; author of A selection
of psalms and hymns from the new version 1820; Arvendel, or
sketches in Italy and Switzerland 1826; Sermons for the use of
families 1826, 1827, 2 vols.; A brief inquiry into the prospects
of the church of Christ 1828; Sermons preached at Romsey 1853.
_d._ Romsey vicarage 24 Feb. 1851.
NOEL, RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY (4 son of 1 earl of
Gainsborough 1781–1866). _b._ 27 Aug. 1834; educ. Harrow and
Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1858; travelled in the East 1858–60; a
member of the English Alpine club; a groom of the privy chamber
to the queen 1867–71; author of Behind the veil and other poems
1863; Beatrice and other poems 1868; The red flag and other
poems 1872; Livingstone in Africa, a poem 1874; The house of
Ravensbury, a drama 1877; A little child’s monument 1881, an
account of his own son Eric; A philosophy of immortality 1882;
Songs of the heights and deeps 1885; Essays on poetry and poets
1886; A modern Faust and other poems 1888; Life of Lord Byron
1890, in the Great Writer’s series; Poor people’s Christmas, a
poem 1890; edited A selection from the poems of Edmund Spenser
1887; Thomas Otway 1888 in the Mermaid series. _d._ in a cab
on his way to the hotel at Mainz on the Rhine 26 May 1894. _A.
H. Miles’s Poets of the nineteenth century vi_ 81–146 (1893);
_Academy 2 June 1894 p._ 456; _Westminster Budget 6 June 1894
p._ 31 _portrait_.
NOEL, THOMAS (eld. son of rev. Thomas Noel, R. of
Kirkby-Mallory, Leics.) _b._ Kirkby-Mallory 11 May 1799;
educ. Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824; lived at Boyne hill, near
Maidenhead many years; corresponded with Miss M. R. Mitford, who
in her recollections of a literary life, i 51–5 (1852) quotes at
full length his poems The pauper’s drive and A Thames voyage;
author of The cottage muse 1833; Village verse 1841; Rymes and
roundelays 1841, which includes The pauper’s drive, set to music
by Henry Russell 1839; wrote the words of the well-known song
Rocked in the cradle of the deep. _d._ Brighton 16 May 1861.
_James Payn’s Literary Recollections_ (1884) 87–92.
NOEL, WRIOTHESLY BAPTIST (eld. son of B. W. Noel 1798–1873).
_b._ Thorpe hall, Walthamstow, Essex 15 Aug. 1827; educ. Trin.
coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1850; landed in Melbourne
Nov. 1852; barrister in Victoria 21 Sept. 1854; police
magistrate for county of Bourke at Melbourne 8 Jany. 1855;
deputy chairman of general sessions July 1857; chief comr. of
insolvent estates 28 March 1859; judge of insolvent court for
Melbourne 1 Feb. 1871 to death. _d._ Denby road, Brighton,
Melbourne 19 May 1886. _Law Journal 24 July 1886 pp._ 443–4.
NOLAN, FREDERICK (3 son of Edward Nolan of St. Peter’s, Dublin).
_b._ Old Rathmines castle, co. Dublin 9 Feb. 1784; entered
Trin. coll. Dublin 1796; matric. as a gentleman commoner of
Exeter coll. Oxf. 19 Nov. 1803; B.C.L. 1828, having passed for
the degree in 1805, D.C.L. 1828; ordained Aug. 1806; curate of
Woodford, Hackney, and St. Bennet Fink, London successively;
Boyle lecturer 1814, Bampton lecturer 1833, Warburtonian
lecturer 1833–6; V. of Prittlewell, Essex 25 Oct. 1822 to death;
F.R.S.L. 1828; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1833; author of The romantick
mythology in two parts 1809; An inquiry into the nature and
extent of poetick licence 1810, under pseudonym of Nicholas
Aylward Vigors, jun., Esq.; The operations of the Holy Ghost,
illustrated and confirmed by scriptural authorities 1813;
An inquiry into the integrity of the Greek vulgate 1815,
supplement 1830; Fragments of a civick feast: by a Reformer
1819; A harmonical grammar of the principal ancient and modern
languages, 2 parts 1822; Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister.
By Sarah Search 1855. _d._ Geraldstown house, co. Navan 16 Sept.
1864. _bur._ Navan churchyard. _G.M. Dec. 1864 p._ 788–91.
NOLAN, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1742; a tenant of the earl of
Bessborough; his portrait taken and sent to the queen 1852;
fully 6 feet in height; retained his faculties to his decease.
_d._ Knockindrane, co. Carlow 24 April 1858, aged 115 years and
9 months. _G.M. iv_ 680 (1858).
NOLAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Birmingham 1840; pugilist weighing 8 stone
10 pounds; beat Flanery 23 March 1857, Ensor 20 April 1858; and
G. Henley 10 Aug. 1858; beat John Hicks £60 a side, 45 rounds in
85 minutes near Aldershot 15 March 1859; beat Hicks again £60 a
side, 66 rounds in 2 hours and 45 minutes down the Thames 7 Feb.
1860; fought a drawn battle with Daniel Thomas for £200 a side,
20 rounds in 90 minutes near Oxford 8 April 1862; fought a drawn
battle with Richard Fellowes £25 a side, 85 minutes at Four
Ashes, Staffs. 16 Aug. 1864. _d._ at his mother’s residence, in
the house in which he was born, Birmingham 29 June 1867. _bur._
Nechell’s Green cemet. 4 July. _Illust. sporting news i_ 21, 37,
38 (1862) _portrait_, _vi_ 441 (1867) _portrait_.
NOLAN, LEWIS EDWARD (son of Babington Nolan, capt. 70 regt.,
vice-consul at Milan, _d._ 1837). _b._ about 1820; educ. Milan
military college; a cavalry officer in the Austrian service,
served in Hungary and on the Polish frontier as an officer in
an Hungarian hussar regiment; ensign 4 foot 15 March 1839;
cornet 15 hussars 23 April 1839, captain 8 March 1850, placed
on h.p. Aug. 1854; A.D.C. to sir G. F. Berkeley in Madras 1840;
extra A.D.C. to sir Henry Pottinger, governor of Madras 1840;
riding master to 15 hussars in India; the most noted horseman
of his day; spoke 5 European languages and several Indian
dialects; A.D.C. to Richard Airey, Q.M.G. in the Crimea 1854;
present at battle of the Alma; author of System of training
cavalry horses. By Kenner Garrard 1853. Cavalry, its history
and tactics 1853; The training of cavalry remount horses 1861.
_killed_ at battle of Balaklava in the Crimea 25 Oct. 1854. _G.
Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_ (1855) 40–3; _I.L.N. xxv_ 528
(1854) _portrait_, _xxviii_ 462 (1856) _view of tombstone at
Maidstone_; _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea_, _vols. ii, iii,
and v_ (1877).
NOTE.--At Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 he brought an order from lord Raglan
to lord Lucan, desiring him to prevent the Russians from carrying away
some English guns. This order being misunderstood led to the charge of
the light brigade and a great waste of life.
NOLAN, THOMAS. _b._ 1809; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831,
M.A. 1833, D.D. 1857; C. of St. Peter’s, Stockport 1837; V. of
St. Barnabas, Liverpool 1841–9; minister of St. John’s chapel,
Bedford row, London 1849–54; V. of Acton, Cheshire 1854–7; V.
of St. Peter’s, Regent sq. London 1857–73; V. of St. Saviours,
Paddington 1873 to death; author of The pastor’s account and
the pastor’s duty, two sermons 1850; The christian sabbath and
the Sydenham palace 1854; The vicarious sacrifice of Christ the
only foundation for the sinner’s hope, the only motive to the
christian’s holiness 1860. _d._ 22 Warrington crescent, London
19 Nov. 1882. _Guardian 22 Nov. 1882 p._ 1639.
NOLDWRITT, JOHN SPENCER. _b._ 1815; custom house agent at Custom
house court, Beer lane, London 1841, afterwards at 5 Water lane,
Great Tower st.; hon. sec. of Camberwell lecture hall, library
and reading-room in Carter st. Walworth, founded 31 March
1845; F.R.A.S.; F.R.G.S. _d._ 44 Benhill road, Brunswick sq.
Camberwell 1 Jany. 1891. _Blanch’s Camberwell_ (1877) 358–9.