NASH, Frederick (son of a builder). b. Lambeth, London 28 March 1782; studied at the R.A.; architectural draftsman to society of antiquaries 1807; associate of society of painters in water-colours 1810, member 1811, seceded 1812, re-elected 1824; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. 63 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1799–1852; published a series of views of the collegiate chapel of St. George at Windsor 1805; pronounced by Turner to be the finest architectural painter of his day; resided at Brighton 1834 to death; four of his pictures are in South Kensington museum. d. 4 Montpellier road, Brighton 5 Dec. 1856. Art Journal (1857) 61.
NASH, Harry. Printer and stationer at Bournemouth 1873; connected with the Bournemouth Observer; proprietor and manager of theatre royal, Bournemouth 1881 to death; conducted the provincial tours of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels and of Mr. George Grossmith. d. Bournemouth 22 Oct. 1894 aged 41.
NASH, Joseph. Entered Bengal army 1812; ensign 7 Bengal N.I. 1 Nov. 1814 to 1816; ensign 22 N.I. 1816; lieut. 25 Dec. 1817; captain 43 N.I. 24 Jany. 1829; major 26 Sept. 1841 to 11 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. 72 N.I. 11 Nov. 1847 to 1852 of 18 N.I. 1852–5 and of 47 N.I. 1855–6; commandant at Delhi 7 Nov. 1854 to 27 Feb. 1856; col. of 46 N.I. 15 July 1857 to death; L.G. 23 March 1869; C.B. 27 June 1846. d. Dehra, Meerut 1 Jany. 1870.
NASH, Joseph (son of rev. Okey Nash who kept the Manor house school at Croydon). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 17 Dec. 1809; pupil of Augustus Pugin the architect; associate of society of painters in water-colours 1834, member 1842; published Architecture of the middle ages 1838; The mansions of England in the olden time 4 series 1839–49; lithographed Sir D. Wilkie’s Sketches in Turkey 1843, Sir D. Wilkie’s Sketches in Spain 1846, and Views of Windsor Castle 1848; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1831–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1878; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; E. Macdermott’s The merrie days of England 1859; Old English ballads 1864; with L. Haghe and others painted Dickinson’s comprehensive picture of the great exhibition of 1851 executed for prince Albert 1854. d. Hereford road, Bayswater, London 19 Dec. 1878. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists II 120–32 (1880); I.L.N. lxxiv 21 (1879) portrait.
NASH, Rowland (son of James Nash, architect d. 1842 aged 95). b. 1784; served in the Volunteers 1799; assistant registrar and solicitor at the bishop’s registry, diocese of Lincoln, some years; lost heavily in lottery speculations; edited the Star newspaper in London; a colonial and parliamentary agent in London; author of Nash’s Marriage and divorce law 1859. d. 45 Amwell st. Clerkenwell, London 10 Sept. 1859. Law Times 1 Oct. 1859 pp. 22–3.
NASMITH, David (1 son of David Nasmith of London). b. 1829; matric. univ. of London 1849; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1865; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1888; had an extensive practice in the common law courts; F.S.S.; hon. LL.D. of St. Andrew’s univ.; translated J. L. E. Ortolan’s The history of Roman law 1871; author of The chronometrical chart of the history of England 1863; The institutes of English public law 1873; The institutes of English private law 1875; The institutes of English adjective law 1879; Outline of history from Romulus to Justinian 1890; Makers of modern thought, 2 vols. 1892; he also published a series called The practical linguist, French and German, 7 vols. 1870–3; resided 37 Norland sq. London. d. Evelyn house, Herne Bay, Kent 10 July 1894.
NASMYTH, Charles (eld. son of Robert Nasmyth, F.R.C.S Edinb.) b. Edinburgh Sept. 1825; ed. at Addiscombe 1843–5; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 12 Dec. 1845, 1 lieut. 4 Feb. 1850; Times correspondent in Omar Pasha’s camp at Shumla; reached Silistria 28 March 1854, before it was invested by the Russians, Nasmyth and captain J. A. Butler conducted the defence for the Turks, and continually headed sorties against the besiegers, the Russians compelled to raise the siege 22 June 1854; freedom of city of Edinburgh conferred on him 2 March 1855; appointed captain unattached and brevet major in British army 15 Sept. 1854 for his services at Silistria; present at battle of the Alma and siege of Sevastapol; assistant adjutant general of Kilkenny district 1855; brigade major at the Curragh camp 1856–7; brigade major of second infantry brigade, Dublin 1857–8; brigade major at Sydney, N.S.W. 1858–9; major of 4 foot 25 May 1860, but sold out same day. d. Pau, France 2 June 1861. I.L.N. xxxix 36 (1861) portrait.
NASMYTH, James Hall (son of Alexander Nasmyth, artist 1758–1840). b. 47 York place, Edinburgh 19 Aug. 1808; ed. at Edinb. high school 1817, and at school of arts 1821; assistant to Henry Maudslay, engineer at Lambeth, London May 1829, and to his partner, Joshua Field Feb. to Aug. 1831; invented a flexible shaft for driving small drills 1829, and the nut-shaping machine 1830; engineer in Dale st. Manchester 1834; built the Bridgewater foundry at Patricroft, near Manchester 1836; partner with Holbrook Gaskell 1836–52; made many improvements in machine tools; invented the steam hammer 1839, which he patented 9 June 1842; erected the first steam hammer in this country at Patricroft 1843; applied steam hammer to pile driving 1845; proposed the use of chilled cast-iron shot 1862; retired from business 1856, lived at Penshurst, Kent 1856 to death; contributed Remarks on tools and machines to T. Baker’s Elements of mechanism 1858, 2 ed. 1867; author with James Carpenter of The Moon, considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite 1874, 3 ed. 1885. d. Bailey’s hotel, Gloucester road, South Kensington 7 May 1890. James Nasmyth, an autobiography, edited by S. Smiles (1883) portrait.
NASON, John. b. 19 Sept. 1827; ensign 49 foot 9 May 1846, captain 29 Oct. 1854; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, lieut. col. 3 March 1866, placed on h.p. 13 June 1870; lieut. col. brigade depôt 1 April 1873, placed on h.p. 1 April 1878; A.A.G. Northern district 1 Oct. 1870 to 31 March 1873; A.A. and Q.M.G. Northern district 8 May 1880 to 20 Dec. 1881; M.G. 10 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 April 1885. d. Comrie, Perthshire 23 April 1891.
NATHAN, Baron (brother of the succeeding). b. 1793; teacher of dancing at 10 Kennington Cross, London 1844 to death; master of the ceremonies and managing director at Rosherville gardens, near Gravesend, many years, where on his benefit night he used to dance a hornpipe blindfolded in the midst of a number of eggs, placed on various parts of the stage, without once touching an egg, this was known as the egg hornpipe; there are many portraits of him in the early vols. of Punch. d. 10 Kennington Cross, London 6 Dec. 1856.