NEED, Sir Arthur (son of lieut. general Samuel Need of Fountain Dale, Notts., d. 1839). b. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury; cornet 16 lancers 13 Oct. 1839, lieut. 17 June 1842; lieut. 14 hussars 30 March 1847, captain 1 June 1854, placed on h.p. 2 Dec. 1862; lieut. col. in the army 14 Jany. 1862; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9, in Persian expedition 1857, and with Central India field force 1857–8; lieutenant of Her Majesty’s body guard of yeomen of the guard 11 Feb. 1870 to death; knighted at Buckingham palace 25 Feb. 1881. d. Blidworth, Notts. 28 July 1888.
NEEDHAM, Edward Moore. b. Birmingham 1819; a booking clerk to the Midland railway co. 1840; superintendent Midland railway co. 1860 to death. d. Duffield, near Derby 23 Jany. 1890.
NEEDHAM, Francis Jack (eld. child of 2 earl of Kilmorey 1787–1880). b. 2 Feb. 1815; styled viscount Newry and Morne 30 Nov. 1832 to death; M.P. Newry 8 July 1841 to death. d. 10 Grosvenor crescent, Eaton sq. London 6 May 1851. bur. Shavington hall chapel, near Market Drayton.
NEELD, Sir John, 1 Baronet (brother of the succeeding). b. Fulham, Middlesex 20 July 1805; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; M.P. Cricklade 1835–59; contested Cricklade 30 April 1859; M.P. Chippenham 1865–8; gentleman of the privy chamber to the queen 1843–57; cr. a baronet 20 April 1859; sheriff of Wiltshire 1872. d. Grittleton house, Chippenham 3 Sept. 1891.
NEELD, Joseph (eld. child of Joseph Neeld of Fulham, Middlesex 1754–1828). b. 13 Jany. 1789; ed. at Harrow, a governor of the school 1828–36, founded in 1840 two scholarships of £30 a year for 3 years, and in 1851 gave a gold medal to be given annually to the best proficient in mathematics; M.P. Gatton 8 March to 24 July 1830; M.P. Chippenham 30 July 1830 to death; came into possession of about £900,000 on death of his maternal great uncle, Phillip Rundell of Ludgate st. London, goldsmith, who d. 17 Feb. 1827 aged 81; purchased estate of Grittleton, Wilts from colonel Houlton 1828; F.L.S. 1829; F.S.A. 31 Jany. 1828; M.R.G.S. d. 6 Grosvenor sq. London 24 March 1856. bur. 31 March under north aisle of church of Leigh Delamere, near Chippenham, which was rebuilt at his sole expense 1846. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 243–48 (1854).
NEGRETTI, Enrico Angelo Ludovico. b. Como, Italy 1817; came to London 1829; glass-blower and thermometer maker at 19 Leather lane, Holborn 1843, removed to 9 Hatton garden 1848; partner with J. W. Zambra 1850; they gained many prize medals at Great exhibition of 1851; meteorological instrument makers to the queen, Greenwich observatory and British meteorological society 1851; took out a patent for thermometers and barometers 1852; the firm became known all over the world; they removed to 107 Holborn hill 1858, and to Holborn circus 1869; friend of Garibaldi, who was his guest in 1854; chief of the Italian Garibaldi reception committee in London 1864; naturalised as a British subject 11 April 1862; obtained the respite of Serafino Pelizzioni, who was sentenced to be executed 22 Feb. 1865 for murdering Michael Harrington Dec. 1864, Pelizzioni was liberated March 1865, the murder having been really committed by Gregorio Mogni; author of A treatise on meteorological instruments 1864. d. Cricklewood house, Cricklewood, Middlesex 24 Sept. 1879. M. Williams’s Leaves of a life i 113–24 (1890).
NEILD, John Camden (younger son of James Neild, silversmith and philanthropist 1744–1814). b. 4 St. James’s st. London 3 May 1780; ed. at Eton 1793–7, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1808; succeeded to a fortune of £250,000 on his father’s death 1814; became a confirmed miser; attempted to cut his throat at North Marston, Bucks. 1827; left by his will nearly the whole of his property, estimated at half-a-million, to queen Victoria for her sole use and benefit, two caveats were entered against the will but were subsequently withdrawn. d. 5 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 30 Aug. 1852. bur. in chancel of North Marston church 9 Sept., the queen restored this chancel in 1855 and erected a stained-glass window and reredos to Neild’s memory. H. Tattam’s Short memoir of J. C. Neild (1852); Timbs’s English eccentrics (1875) 99–103; Chambers’s Book of days ii 285–8 (1864); G.M. xxxviii 429–31, 492 (1852), xxxix 570 (1853); I.L.N. xxi 222, 350 (1852); xxvii 379, 380 (1855).
NEILL, James George Smith (eld. son of colonel Wm. Smith Neill of Burnweill, Ayrshire 1784–1850). b. near Ayr 27 May 1810; ed. at Ayr and Glasgow univ.; ensign 1 Madras European regiment 5 Dec. 1826, adjutant 7 March 1834, major 25 March 1850; deputy assistant A.G. in the Ceded districts 23 March 1841–50; deputy assistant to Madras troops in the Burmese war 1852–3; second in command of Anglo-Turkish contingent in the Russian war 1855–6, went to Constantinople April 1855; commanded his regiment 28 April 1857 to death; brigadier general in command of the Haidarabad contingent June 1857 to death; was gazetted A.D.C. to the queen, with rank of colonel in the army 16 Oct. 1857; commanded at Cawnpore July 1857; commanded the right wing in the advance to Lucknow 19 Sept. shot dead outside Lucknow 25 Sept. 1857. bur. Lucknow 26 Sept., colossal statue by Noble erected in Wellington sq. Ayr. J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 321–8; J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers ii 353–416 (1867); E. H. Nolan’s British empire in India ii 724 (1860) portrait; R. M. Martin’s Indian empire ii 292 et seq. (1860) view of his death; W. Forbes-Mitchell’s Reminiscenses of the great mutiny (1893) appendix A; I.L.N. xxxi 577, 578 (1858) portrait.
Note.—He wrote the history of his regiment under the title of Historical record of the Madras European regiment 1843. His widow Isabella Neill was raised 26 Nov. 1857 to the same rank as if her husband had survived to be created K.C.B., for which honour he was named in the London Gazette Nov. 1857, she was granted a pension of £500 a year by the East India Co. 1857 and d. 1875. His fourth son Andrew Harry Spencer Neill b. 30 Aug. 1844, ensign Madras infantry 20 Aug. 1861, commanded second regiment of Central India horse 5 Nov. 1880 to death, major Bengal staff corps 20 Aug. 1881 to death, was shot dead on parade by an insane trooper of his regiment 14 March 1887 at Agar, Central India.
NEILL, Patrick. b. Edinburgh 25 Oct. 1776; head of the large printing firm of Neill and Co.; secretary of the Wernerian natural history society 1808; secretary of the Caledonian horticultural society 1809–49; laid out the West Princes st. gardens, Edinb. 1820; the rosaceous genus Neillia is called after him; F.L.S. 1813; F.R.S. Edinb.; LL.D. Edinb. univ.; author of A Tour through some of the islands of Orkney and Shetland 1806; An account of the basalts of Saxony, from the French of J. F. D’Aubuisson 1814; and of the article Gardening in the 7th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which was published under title of The fruit, flower, and kitchen garden 1840, 5 ed. 1854. d. Canonmills cottage, near Edinburgh 3 Sept. 1851. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii 191–2 (1855); Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 115 portrait.