Note.—His wife exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., and 9 at Suffolk st. 1857–79.
NAGHTEN, Arthur Robert (son of Thomas Naghten of Crofton house, Titchfield, Hants). b. 23 April 1829; educ. Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1853; M.P. Winchester 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; captain Hampshire artillery 3 Aug. 1859, major 1872–5; a director of Southampton dock co. d. Blightmont, Southampton 7 Aug. 1881.
NAGLE, James. b. co. Cork; sessional crown prosecutor in East Riding of co. Cork 1836–53; master of the crown office in Ireland, queen’s coroner and attorney and clerk of the crown 1853 to death. d. 90 Pembroke road, Dublin 11 Sept. 1875. Irish Law Times ix 470, 535 (1875).
NAIRN, William Edward (1 son of Wm. Nairn, major 46 foot). b. Lynecombe, Somerset 1812; matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 21 Jany. 1830; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1830–4; B.A. 1833; went with sir John Franklin to Van Diemen’s Land 1837; secretary to board of education 1839; clerk to the executive and legislative councils 1841; assistant colonial secretary 1842; deputy controller general of convicts 1843, controller general 1855; sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land 1855; member for Meander of legislative council 1856–69; president of the council Sept. 1859 to Aug. 1868. d. Hobart Town 9 July 1869.
NAIRNE, Charles Murray. b. Perth 15 April 1808; graduated at Univ. of St. Andrews 1830, and afterwards at Edinburgh; assistant to Dr. Thomas Chalmers at Glasgow; taught at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, New York 1847; established a private school in New York; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and literature in Columbia college 1857–81, emeritus professor 1881 to death; received degree of L.H.D. from the regents of New York 1865; author of Two lectures of the annual psychological course in Columbia college, New York 1866, and of many pamphlets. d. Warrenton, Virginia 28 May 1882.
NAIRNE, Robert. Educ. Edinb. and at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1832, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838; physician to St. George’s hospital 1839, then senior physician and lecturer on medicine; a comr. in lunacy April 1857 to July 1883, hon. comr. 1883 to death. d. Mossley, Beckenham 5 Nov. 1886. The Lancet 13 Nov. 1886 p. 955, 20 Nov. p. 1005.
NAISH, John (2 son of Carrol Naish of Ballycullen, co. Limerick). b. 1841; ed. at Jesuit school of Clongowes Wood in Kildare, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar in science 1861, B.A. 1863; won the studentship given by inns of court, London; called to Irish bar 1865; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880; bencher of King’s Inns 1883; law adviser to Dublin castle 1880–3; solicitor general for Ireland 9 Jany. 1883, attorney general 19 Dec. 1884 to 21 May 1885; contested Mallow 25 June 1883; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1885; lord chancellor of Ireland 21 May to 1 July 1885, being the second Roman Catholic chancellor since the reformation; lord justice of appeal Aug. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and June 1886 to death; lord chancellor again Feb. to July 1886. d. Ems 17 Aug. 1890. bur. at Ems. Our judges, By Rhadamanthus (1890) 45–9 portrait; Irish law times xxiv 446–7 (1890); Law Journal 23 Aug. 1890 p. 514.
NAISH, William (son of Francis Naish, silversmith). b. High st. Bath 9 March 1785; haberdasher at 37 Gracechurch st. London 1823–34; published many tracts and pamphlets in favour of the anti-slavery movement which he sold at his shop 1829–30; resided sometime at Maidstone; author of The negroe’s remembrancer, 13 numbers; The negroe’s friend, 26 numbers; Reasons for using East Indian sugar 1828; The negro slave, a tale 1830; Sketches from the history of Pennsylvania 1845; The fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah 1853, and of a number of 4 page Quaker tracts. d. Bath 4 March 1860. bur. Friends burial ground at Widcombe Hill near Bath. J. Smith’s Catalogue ii 210–14 (1867).
Note.—His son Arthur John Naish, b. 1816, founded with Paul Bevan the valuable Bevan-Naish library of Friend’s books, now deposited in the library, Dr. Johnson passage, Birmingham, he d. 1889.
NALLY, Patrick W. b. co. Mayo 1857; tried Dec. 1883 and again in 1884 at Cork, and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for being concerned in the Crossmolins conspiracy to murder case; detained in Mountjoy prison, Dublin from 1882–6, in Downpatrick gaol and 1886, again at Mountjoy; preparation had been made for a Nally testimonial on his expected release from prison on 27 Nov. 1891. d. Mountjoy prison, Dublin 9 Nov. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 14 Nov., when a large number of people attended. The Freeman’s Journal 10 Nov. 1891 p. 5, 16 Nov. p. 5.