Norfolk, M.P. for Hastings). _b._ Hastings 24 Oct. 1830; resided
abroad 1847–50; travelled with her father in Syria and Egypt
1865; painted flowers in Canada, U.S. of America, Jamaica
and Brazil July 1871 to Sept. 1873; visited Teneriffe 1875;
travelled round the world Aug. 1875 to March 1877, and in India
1878–9; exhibited her drawings at a room in Conduit st. London,
summer of 1879, after which she presented them to the Botanical
gardens at Kew, where a gallery designed by James Fergusson was
built for them and opened 9 July 1882; travelled in Borneo,
Australia, and New Zealand 1880–2, in South Africa 1882–3;
painted araucarias in Chili 1884–5; five species of flowers,
four of which she first made known in Europe, have been named
after her; resided at Alderley, Gloucs. 1886 to death. _d._
Mount house, Alderley 30 Aug. 1890. _bur._ Alderley, bust by
Conrad Dressler placed in inner room of the North gallery, Kew
March 1894. _Recollections of a happy life, the autobiography of
M. North_, _edited by her sister Mrs. J. A. Symonds_, 2 _vols._
(1892) 2 _portraits_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 616 (1882) _portrait and 13
Sept. 1890 p._ 342 _portrait_.
NORTH, THOMAS (son of Thomas North of Burton End, Melton
Mowbray, Leics.) _b._ Melton Mowbray 24 Jany. 1830; clerk
in Paget’s bank, Leicester about 1845–72; hon. secretary
of Leicestershire architectural society and editor of its
Transactions 1861 to death, to which he contributed more
than 30 papers; F.S.A. 1875; author of Tradesmen’s tokens,
Leicestershire 1857; A chronicle of the church of St. Martin
in Leicester during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI,
Mary, and Elizabeth 1866; The church bells of Leicestershire
1876, of Northamptonshire 1878, of Rutland 1880, of Lincoln
1882, of Bedfordshire 1883, and of Hertfordshire 1886, six
volumes; English bells and bell lore 1888; The accounts of
the churchwardens of St. Martin’s, Leicester 1489–1844, 1884.
_d._ The Plas, Llanfairfechan, North Wales 27 Feb. 1884.
_Transactions of the Leicestershire architectural society vi_
91–3 (1885); _Church Bells 8 March 1884 p._ 318.
NORTH, WILLIAM. _b._ Nottingham 1807; a schoolmaster Nottingham,
then inspector of corn returns; played in Nottingham _v._
Sheffield on the Forest ground, Nottingham 20–22 Aug. 1827;
author of Nottingham cricket scores 1771–1829, 1830. _d._ 6
March 1855. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 32 (1862).
NORTH, WILLIAM. _b._ 17 Oct. 1811; member of firm of Payne,
Eddison, and Ford solicitors, Leeds 1849; engaged in carrying
out the Leeds and North Midland railway; the first secretary
of the Midland railway company 1844; founded firm of North and
Sons, solicitors, Leeds 1858; legal adviser of the Yorkshire
banking company from its formation to his death, a director
to 1880; steward to earl of Mexborough for his five manors.
_d._ Potternewton, near Leeds 24 July 1883. _bur._ Woodhouse
cemetery, Leeds. _Law Times 11 Aug. 1883 p._ 285.
NORTH, WILLIAM (2 son of George North of St. John’s, Brecon).
_b._ 1808; educ. Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1830–5; B.A. 1829,
M.A. 1832; C. of St. John, Brecon 1833–40; professor of Latin
in St. David’s coll. Lampeter 1840–62; R. of Llangoedmore,
Cardiganshire 10 Dec. 1840 to death; archdeacon of Cardigan
and prebendary of Llandyfriog in St. David’s cathedral 1860 to
death; author of A charge to the clergy 1865. _d._ Treforgan,
Cardigan 7 June 1893.
NORTHAMPTON, SPENCER JOSHUA ALWYNE COMPTON, 2 Marquess of (2
son of 1 Marquess of Northampton 1760–1828). _b._ Stoke park,
Wiltshire 1 Jany. 1790; styled lord Compton 1796–1812; educ.
Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810, LL.D. 1835; capt. central regt.
Northamptonshire militia 10 Sept. 1810; styled earl Compton
1812–28; M.P. Northampton 1812–20; lived in Italy 1820–30;
succeeded as 2 marquess 24 May 1828; recorder of Northampton
1828–32; F.R.S. 27 May 1830, president 30 Nov. 1838, resigned 30
Nov. 1849; F.S.A. 10 March 1836; F.G.S., president; president of
British Association at Bristol 1836, and Swansea 1848; president
of Royal soc. of literature 26 April 1849 to death; a trustee of
the British museum 1849; D.C.L. of Oxford 24 June 1850; edited
Irene, a poem by Margaret, marchioness of Northampton 1833;
The Tribute, a collection of unpublished poems 1837; author of
Observations on the motion of sir R. Heron, M.P. respecting
vacating seats in parliament on the acceptance of office 1835.
_d._ Castle Ashby, near Northampton 17 Jany. 1851. _bur._ Castle
Ashby 25 Jany. _P. F. Robinson’s Vitruvius Britannicus_ (1847)
_part_ 3 _pp._ 1–24; _H. Drummond’s Noble British families i_
12–6 (1846); _G.M. xxxv_ 425–9 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 59, 60
(1851) _portrait_; _Athenæum 25 Jany. 1851 pp._ 110–11; _Doyle’s
Baronage ii_ 631 (1886) _portrait_; _Times 18 Jany. 1851 p._ 5,
_22 Jany. p._ 5.
NORTHBOURNE, SIR WALTER CHARLES JAMES, 1 Baron (son of John
James, minister plenipotentiary to Holland, _d._ 4 June
1818). _b._ 3 June 1816; educ. Westminster school 1826–33,
and Christ Church, Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; succeeded his
grandfather as second baronet 8 Oct. 1829; by his marriage in
1841 came into the Ellison properties in Gateshead, Hebbern
and the neighbourhood; M.P. Hull 1837–47; sheriff of Kent
1855; a commissioner on the constitution and working of the
ecclesiastical courts 1880; a trustee of the national gallery;
cr. baron Northbourne of Betteshanger, Kent 5 Nov. 1884. _d._
Betteshanger, near Sandwich 4 Feb. 1893. _Daily Graphic 9 Feb.
1893 p._ 8 _portrait_.
NORTHBROOK, FRANCIS THORNHILL BARING, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir
Thomas Baring, 2 bart. 1790–1848). _b._ Calcutta 20 April 1796;
educ. Winchester and Christ Church, Oxf., double first class
and B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; capt. North Hants. regt. of militia 1
July 1818; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823; M.P. Portsmouth 1826–65;
a lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834; joint
secretary to the treasury 6 June to 17 Nov. 1834, and 21 April
1835 to Aug. 1839; chancellor of the exchequer 26 Aug. 1839 to
3 Sept. 1841; P.C. 26 Aug. 1839; succeeded as 3 baronet 3 April
1848; first lord of the admiralty 18 Jany. 1849 to 27 Feb. 1852;
F.R.S. 22 Sept. 1849; cr. baron Northbrook of Stratton, county
of Southampton 4 Jany. 1866. _d._ of apoplexy Stratton park,
near Winchester 6 Sept. 1866. _bur._ Michelde church, Hants. 13
Sept. _G.M. ii_ 543–4 (1866).
NORTHCOTE, STAFFORD HENRY, 1 Earl of Iddesleigh (eld. son of
Henry Stafford Northcote 1792–1830, M.P. Haytesbury 1826–30).
_b._ 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818; educ. Eton 1831–6,
rowed bow oar in the Eton eight 1835; matric. from Balliol coll.
Oxf. 3 March 1836, scholar 1836–42, rowed in the college boat
1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1840, D.C.L. 1863; private secretary to W.
E. Gladstone, the vice-president of board of trade 30 June 1842
to 1845; legal assistant at board of trade Feb. 1845 to Aug.
1850; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1847; one of secretaries of Great
Exhibition 3 Jany. 1850 to Oct. 1851; succeeded his grandfather
as 8 baronet 17 March 1851; C.B. 17 Oct. 1851; G.C.B. 20 April
1880; a comr. for reorganising board of trade Dec. 1852 to March
1853; M.P. Dudley 1855–7; contested North Devon 6 April 1857;
M.P. Stamford 1858–66; M.P. North Devon 1866–85; financial sec.
to the treasury Jany. to June 1859; member of public schools
commission 18 July 1862, and of endowed schools commission 20
Dec. 1865; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to 1867; P.C.
6 July 1866; secretary for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868;
chairman of Hudson’s Bay company Jany. 1869, governor March
1869 to March 1874; one of the six comrs. to arrange matters
in dispute between Great Britain and the United States 13 Feb.
1871, the treaty of Washington was signed 8 May 1871; president
of commission to inquire into working of friendly societies 14
Jany. 1871; chancellor of the exchequer 18 Feb. 1874 to April
1880; abolished the sugar duties of £2,000,000, 1874; applied an
annual sinking fund of 28 millions to reduction of the national
debt 1875; exempted incomes of £150 from income tax instead of
£100 as before 1876; carried his Savings’ bank bill 1875, his
Friendly societies’ bill 1875, and his Public works loan bill
1878; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1875; leader of the house of commons 8 Feb.
1877 to 24 March 1880; led the opposition April 1881 to June
1885; first lord of the treasury June 1885 to Feb. 1886; created
viscount Saint Cyres of Newton Saint Cyres, Devon, and earl of
Iddesleigh 3 July 1885; president of commission to inquire into
depression of trade 29 Aug. 1885, the last report dated 21 Dec.
1886; presented by members of house of commons with a service of
plate 8 March 1886; foreign secretary 27 July 1886 to 4 Jany.
1887; lord lieutenant of Devon 8 Jany. 1886 to death; lord
rector of univ. of Edinb. 3 Nov. 1883 to death; author of The
case of sir Eardley Wilmot 1847, 2 ed. 1847; A short review of
the navigation laws of England. By A Barrister 1849, 2 ed. 1849;
A statement connected with the election of W. E. Gladstone for
the university of Oxford in 1847, 1852, and 1853, 1853; Twenty
years of financial policy 1862; The pleasures, the dangers, and
the uses of desultory reading 1885; Lectures and essays 1887.
_d._ in lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany.
1887. _bur._ Upton Pyne, Devon 18 Jany., two statues by sir
E. Boehm, R.A., one in house of commons vestibule, the other
on Northernhay, Exeter; personalty sworn under £23,000 March
1887. _A. Lang’s Life of sir S. Northcote_ 2 _vols._ (1890) 2
_portraits_; _C. Worthy’s Life of earl of Iddesleigh_ (1887)
_portrait_.
NORTHESK, GEORGE JOHN CARNEGIE, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 earl
of Northesk 1794–1878). _b._ Longwood, Hants. 1 Dec. 1843;
styled lord Rosehill 1843–78; cornet 1 dragoons 10 June 1862;
ensign Scots fusilier guards 21 Nov. 1862, captain 26 March
1873, sold out 27 June 1874; succeeded as 9 earl 5 Dec. 1878; a
representative peer for Scotland Feb. 1885; made a collection
of flint prehistoric weapons, which he lent to the museum of
science and arts Edinb., and to the city museum, Winchester;
F.S.A. 30 Nov. 1871, vice-president. _d._ Longwood house, near
Winchester 10 Sept. 1891. _Proc. of Society of Antiquaries xiv_
136 (1892).
NORTHEY, FRANCIS VERNON (son of E. R. Northey of Epsom). _b._
1836; educ. Eton, one of the cricket eleven 1852–4; ensign 60
foot 22 March 1855, instructor in musketry 3 Nov. 1858, major 5
July 1873 to death; commanded the third battalion in Zululand;
mortally wounded at battle of Ginghilovo 2 April 1879, and _d._
7 April 1879. _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 576 (1879) _portrait_; _Graphic
xix_ 584 (1879) _portrait_.
NORTHMORE, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Northmore of Cleve house,
near Exeter 1735–77). _b._ Cleve house 1766; educ. Tiverton and
Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; F.S.A. 19 May 1791;
contested Exeter 20 June 1818, and Barnstaple 12 Dec. 1832;
discovered the ossiferous nature of Kent’s cavern at Torquay
about 1824; published Plutarch’s Treatise upon the distinction
between a friend and flatterer 1793; Memoirs of Planetes, or
a sketch of the laws and manners of Makar. By Philelentherus
Devoniensis 1795; Washington, or liberty restored, a poem in
ten books 1809, Baltimore 1809; Of education founded upon
principles, Part the first, Time previous to the age of puberty
1800, no more published. _d._ Furzebrook House, near Axminster
20 or 29 May 1851. _I.L.N. xviii_ 545 (1851).
NORTHROP, FLORA (dau. of Mr. Macdonald). Principal of the Royal
school for officers’ daughters at Castleton, Isle of Man; went
to U.S. of America 1885 where she suffered great reverses. _d._
of starvation and of being frozen to death New York 31 Dec. 1893.
NORTHUMBERLAND, ALGERNON PERCY, 4 Duke of (younger son of 2 duke
of Northumberland 1742–1817). _b._ Northumberland house, Charing
Cross, London 15 Dec. 1792; educ. Eton; entered R.N. March 1805;
midshipman Sept. 1805, lieut. 1811; served in Mediterranean to
1810; while acting captain of the Caledonia fought in an action
off Toulon 1814; captain 19 Aug. 1815, when put on h.p.; cr.
baron Prudhoe of Prudhoe castle, Northumberland 27 Nov. 1816;
LL.D. Camb. 6 July 1835; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; succeeded
his brother as 4 duke 11 Feb. 1847; constable of Launceston
castle 28 May 1847; R.A. of the Blue 11 Nov. 1850, V.A. 9 July
1857, admiral 13 Oct. 1862; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord of the
admiralty 28 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; a trustee
of the British museum 24 April 1861; hon. col. 2 Northumberland
batt. of artillery volunteers 27 Dec. 1864; F.R.S. 9 April
1818; F.S.A. 10 April 1823; president of Royal Institution;
president of Royal united service institution; president of
Royal national lifeboat institution, gave premiums for improved
boats; introduced the Victoria Regia 1838, which first flowered
in England in a tank built for it at Sion house, Isleworth;
bought the famous Camuccini collection of 74 paintings at Rome
1856. _d._ Alnwick castle, Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865. _bur._
in chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey 25 Feb., personalty
sworn under £500,000, 8 April 1865. _Numismatic Chronicle v_
20 (1865); _G.M. xviii_ 504–11 (1865); _I.L.N. xlvi_ 177, 190,
213, 217 (1865) _portrait_; _G. J. Aungier’s History of Syon
monastery_ (1840); _Illust. Times 4 March 1865 pp._ 129, 132,
_views of funeral, &c._; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ 1857,
265–69 _and_ 465–74; _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 822.
NORTHUMBERLAND, GEORGE PERCY, 5 Duke of (2 son of Algernon
Percy, 1 earl of Beverley 1750–1830). _b._ Alnwick castle,
Northumberland 22 June 1778; styled lord Louvain 1790–1830;
educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1799, LL.D. 1842;
M.P. Beeralston 1799–1800; lieut. col. Northumberland regt. of
militia 3 March 1804, col. 17 May 1804; a lord of the treasury
16 May 1804 to 10 Feb. 1806; commissioner for the affairs of
India 6 April 1807 to 8 Sept. 1812; lord of the bed chamber to
George IV 23 March 1826, and to William IV 24 July to Dec. 1830;
succeeded as 2 earl of Beverley 21 Oct. 1830; captain of the
yeomen of the guard 15 Jany. 1842 to 24 July 1846; P.C. 15 Jany.
1842; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; succeeded
his cousin as 5 duke of Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865; hon. col.
2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 29 April 1865.
_d._ Alnwick castle 21 Aug. 1867. _bur._ beneath chapel of St.
Nicholas, Westminster abbey 30 Aug., personalty sworn under
£350,000, 21 Sept. _G.M. iv_ 532 (1867).
NORTHWICK, JOHN RUSHOUT, 2 Baron (elder son of 1 baron Northwick
1739–1800). _b._ St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 16
Feb. 1770; educ. Hackney, London, and at Neufchatel; lived in
Italy 1790–1800; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1800; a governor
of Harrow school 1801 to death; the first man in Europe to
receive the news of the victory of the Nile and that from Nelson
himself at Palermo; F.S.A. 11 Dec. 1800; his celebrated gallery
of pictures, 1881 in number, at Thirlestane, Cheltenham, was
sold by auction for £95,725 26 July to 15 Aug. 1859; his cabinet
of Greek coins and medals was sold by auction for £8,565, 5
Dec. to 17 Dec. 1859. _d._ Northwick park, near Morton in the
Marsh 20 Jany. 1859. _Waagen’s Treasures of art iii_ 195–212
(1854); _A.R._ (1859) 130–2, 181 _and_ 466; _Hours in the
picture gallery at Thirlestane house_ (1843); _Catalogue of the
paintings the property of J. R. baron Northwick_ (1859).
NORTHWICK, GEORGE RUSHOUT, 3 Baron (only son of hon. and rev.
George Rushout, 1772–1842, rector of Burford, who took name of
Bowles 20 June 1817). _b._ 30 Aug. 1811; educ. Harrow and Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; cornet 1 life guards 18 Jany.
1833, captain 18 March 1842, placed on h.p. 4 June 1847; M.P.
Evesham 1837–41; M.P. East Worcestershire 1847–59; lieut. col.
Herefordshire militia 1853–62; chairman of Severn fishery board
of conservators; succeeded his uncle as 3 baron 20 Jany. 1859.
_d._ Upper Norwood 18 Nov. 1887. _Times 21 Nov. 1887 p._ 7.
NORTON, BERNARD GUSTAVUS. Educ. Queen’s univ. Ireland; barrister
I.T. 6 June 1855; solicitor general of British Guiana March
1863, and first puisne judge of supreme court 1868 to death.
_d._ Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1871. _Solicitors’ Journal xv_ 478
(1871).
NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (2 dau. of Thomas Sheridan,
_d._ Cape of Good Hope 1817). _b._ 11 South Audley st. London
1808; resided with her mother in Hampton court palace 1817, then
at Great George st. Westminster; _m._ (1) 30 July 1827 George
Chapple Norton, he brought an action for crim. con. against
lord Melbourne who was acquitted at the trial 23 June 1836; she
obtained a separation 1840, he _d._ 24 Feb. 1876; she _m._ (2)
1 March 1877 sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell, 9 baronet, he _d._ 15
Jany. 1878; edited La belle assemblée, vols. 1–9, 1832 etc.; The
English annual 1834; Fisher’s Drawing room scrap-book 1832 etc.;
author of The dandies’ rout 1828, a satirical piece; The sorrows
of Rosalie, a tale with other poems 1829; The undying one, and
other poems 1830; A voice from the factories 1836, a poem;
The dream and other poems 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The child of the
islands 1845, a poem; Aunt Carry’s ballads for children 1847;
Stuart of Dunleath, 3 vols. 1851; English laws for women in the
nineteenth century 1854; Letter to the queen on lord chancellor
Cranworth’s marriage and divorce bill 1855; Heimgegangen, in
memory of H.R.H. the prince consort 1862; The lady of La Garaye
1862, 8 ed. 1875; Lost and saved, 3 vols. 1863, 5 ed. 1863;
Old sir Douglas, 3 vols. 1867, new ed. 1871; edited The rose
of Jericho, from the French 1869. _d._ 10 Upper Grosvenor st.
London 15 June 1877, portrait by Mrs. Ferguson in Scottish
National portrait gallery, she is depicted as Astrea the spirit
of justice in Maclise’s fresco in the house of lords executed
1849; she is the heroine of George Meredith’s novel Diana of
the Crossways, 3 vols. 1885. _Songs, poems and verses by Helen,
lady Dufferin_ (1894) _p._ 32 _etc._; _F. Harvey’s Genealogical
table of Sheridan family_ (1873); _P. Fitzgerald’s Lives of the
Sheridans ii_ 352–448 (1886); _C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers_,
_second series_ (1893) 121–41 _portrait_; _W. Bates’s Maclise
portrait gallery_ (1883) 53–8 _portrait_, 355, 419, 457, 493;
_C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs iii_ 349–51 (1874); _Graphic xv_
624 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 595, 613 (1877) _portrait_;
_Temple Bar Feb. 1878 pp._ 101–110; _Englishwoman’s Domestic
Mag. xxiv_ 49, 67 (1878); _Traits of character by a contemporary
ii_ 317–42 (1860); _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record_, _2 ed._ 1855
_p._ 761 _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers_
(1885) 101–3; _Reynold’s Miscellany i_ 233 (1847) _portrait_.
NORTON, DANIEL (1 son of William Norton of Uxbridge). _b._ 1806;
timber merchant Wharf road, City road, London 1827; resided
Northwood park, near Rickmansworth: first played cricket at lord
Ebury’s seat, Moor park 1856; started the Northwood park club
1865, and played in all the matches; often engaged professionals
to play for his team, paid Coleman to be his groundsman; in his
other club at Wharf road he also played in the matches; owner of
landed estates in Kent, Middlesex, Herts., and Hants. _d._ The
Dell, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 10 Feb. 1888. _Cricket 23 Feb.
1888 p._ 30.
NORTON, FLEMING, stage name of Frederic Mills (youngest son
of Wm. Mills of Lindridge Worcs.) _b._ 1836 or 1837; gave an
entertainment at Egyptian hall, Piccadilly, Mr. Fleming Norton’s
musical and mimetic entertainment entitled Perkin’s picnic 1875;
acted sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera Comique
theatre 20 Sept. 1879; the original capt. Flapper in Billee
Taylor at Imperial theatre 30 Oct. 1880; a monologue entertainer
and polyphonist; toured in Australia, New Zealand, the Straits
Settlements, and India 1883–6; resided at 3 Olympia mansions,
Kensington. _d._ 30 March 1895. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 3 April.
_Illust. sp. and dr. news xxv_ 583 (1886) _portrait_.
NORTON, GEORGE (son of John Norton of Shoreham, Sussex). _b._
1791; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, Michel scholar
1815–6, M.A. 1810, fellow 1816–20; barrister I.T. 28 June 1816;
appointed one of common pleaders of city of London; advocate
general of Bombay 1825, of Madras 1827, retired 1854; first
pres. of Madras univ.; author of Commentaries on the history,
constitution, and chartered franchises of the city of London
1829, 3 ed. 1869; An exposition of the privileges of the city
of London in regard to the claims of non-freemen to deal within
its jurisdiction 1821; Rudimentals, a series of discourses on
the principles of government, Madras 1841; Native education in
India 1848; A new financial scheme for India 1857; Proselytism
in India, with an account of the Tinnevelly slaughter 1859;
Thought, its origin and operation 1876. _d._ Wyvols court,
Swallowfield, near Reading 13 July 1876.
NORTON, GEORGE CHAPPLE (2 son of Fletcher Norton, a baron of
the exchequer in Scotland 1744–1820). _b._ 31 Aug. 1800; educ.
Winchester and Edinb. univ.; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1825; a
comr. of bankruptcy 1827–31; stipendiary magistrate at Lambeth
st. Whitechapel 19 April 1831, this court was closed 28 Dec.
1844; stipendiary magistrate Lambeth police court, Kennington
lane 4 Jany. 1845–67; M.P. Guildford 1826–30; recorder of
Guildford Oct. 1827 to death; _m._ 1827 Caroline Elizabeth Sarah
Sheridan. _d._ Wonersh park, Guildford 24 Feb. 1875. _I.L.N.
lxvi_ 223, 595 (1875); _Law Times lviii_ 349 (1875); _Times 1,
4, 8, 18, 20, 23 June 1836_.
NORTON, JOHN BRUCE (eld. son of sir John David Norton, puisne
justice Madras, _d._ 24 Sept. 1843). _b._ 1815; educ. Harrow
1829–34, in the cricket eleven 1832–3, head of the school 1833;
matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 13 June 1833, postmaster 1833–7,
B.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1841; sheriff of Madras
1843–5; clerk of the crown in supreme court of judicature 1845
till 17 Aug. 1862, when court was abolished; counsel for paupers
1847; government pleader 1 Feb. 1853; public prosecutor 15 Aug.
1862; acting advocate general 1862–3; advocate general 2 June
1863, resigned 1871; a senator of Madras univ. and professor of
law; president of Patcheapah’s Institution; lecturer on law to
Indian students at the Temple, London Jany. 1873; held private
classes; author of Folia opima. By J. B. N. of Merton college
1843; The rebellion in India, how to prevent another 1857; The
law of evidence applicable to the courts of the East India
company 1858, 8 ed. 1873; Memories of Merton 1861, 2 ed. 1865 in
verse; Nemesis, a poem 1861; A selection of leading cases in the
Hindu law of inheritance, 2 vols. 1870–1. _d._ 11 Pengwern road,
Kensington, London 13 July 1883. _Law Times 21 July 1883 p._
232, _28 July p._ 249.
NORTON, THOMAS (2 son of Peter Norton of Athlone, co.
Westmeath). _b._ Athlone 1806; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; student
Gray’s Inn 5 Feb. 1829, barrister 26 Jany. 1848, bencher 1865
to death, treasurer 1869; called to Irish bar 1835; practised
in Dublin; first puisne judge British Guiana 10 June 1837 to
1844; chief justice of Newfoundland 14 Sept. 1844 to 8 Oct.
1847; chairman of committee of Reform club; contested Reading 8
Aug. 1849, Athlone 23 April 1853, and Lymington 12 July 1865;
master in crown office of court of queen’s bench 1860–2; queen’s
coroner and attorney 1860, resigned 1872. _d._ 13 Bolton row,
Mayfair, London 12 April 1875. _bur._ Kensal green 19 April.
_Law Times lix_ 39 (1875); _Irish Law Times 15 May 1875 p._ 252.
NORWAY, WILLIAM KING (son of William Norway, merchant,
Wadebridge 1774–1819). _b._ Court place, Egloshayle, Cornwall
25 Sept. 1799; educ. Eton from 1811, king’s scholar 1813;
solicitor at Wadebridge, Cornwall 1822–31; private sec. to sir
William Molesworth, bart.; sec. of the Reform club, Pall Mall,
London July 1852; author of A lecture on total abstinence from
intoxicating drinks 1842. _d._ suddenly in his room at the
Reform club 31 Jany. 1857. _bur._ Kensal Green 5 Feb.
NORWOOD, CHARLES MORGAN (1 son of Charles Norwood). _b._
Ashford, Kent 1825; merchant and steamship owner at Hull; head
of firm of C. M. Norwood & Co. 9 Gracechurch st. London 1862,
and at 21 Billiter st. 1870; president of Hull chamber of
commerce 1859 and 1860; first chairman of Associated chamber of
commerce of the United Kingdom which met at Westminster 21 Feb.
1865; M.P. Hull 1865–85; contested Central division of Hull 1885
and 1886; chairman of the London and India docks joint committee
1889, rejected the demands of the dock labourers in the strike
of Aug. 1889. _d._ 34 Ennismore gardens, London 24 April 1891.
_Pictorial World 9 May 1891 p._ 598 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 2 May
1891 p._ 563 _portrait_.
NORWOOD, JOHN (eld. son of Benjamin Norwood of Nelson st.
Dublin). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; called
to Irish bar Nov. 1846; joined North-East circuit; reported
for the Irish Jurist; secretary of the Loan fund board 1881 to
death; member of corporation of Dublin many years; chairman of
Drumcondra petty sessions; prepared a large work on municipal
law. _d._ Lakelands, Dundrum, co. Dublin 9 Sept. 1884. _Irish
law times 20 Sept. 1884 p._ 491.